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Hannah Jones and Nike’s innovation juggernaut
At a gala dinner Monday night in Chicago, Nike’s Hannah Jones was presented with an award named for the late C.K. Prahalad, one of the world’s most influential business strategists ...
Big dreams, big hurdles for new Florida Polytechnic University
The new Florida Polytechnic University has grand plans, starting with the main classroom building scheduled to open next year.
ACLU files lawsuit to block two NJ religious colleges from higher education bond money
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit today to stop the state from giving more than $11 million in construction funds to two religious colleges.
Policy issues plague hydropower as wind power backup
Theoretically, hydropower can step in when wind turbines go still, but barriers to this non-polluting resource serving as a backup are largely policy- and regulation-based ...
The Case for Asian-Serving Colleges
The “misperception” that all Asian-American and Pacific Islander students are high-achieving and immune from financial challenges has created barriers for the fastest-growing minority group in the United States, says a study released today.
Our overcrowded planet: A failure of family planning
New UN projections forecast that world population will hit nearly 11 billion people by 2100 ...
Pope ‘snub’ of concert stuns cardinals, sends signal
A last-minute no-show by Pope Francis at a concert where he was to have been the guest of honor has sent another clear signal that he is going to do things his way and does not like the Vatican high life.
Millions exposed by Facebook data glitch
Personal details of about six million people have been inadvertently exposed by a bug in Facebook's data archive.
Schneider Electric takes a bottoms-up approach to smart cities
Some of the biggest names in high-tech are vying for a role in the emergence of smart city solutions driven by Big Data analytics and machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies.