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The Latest News On Marijuana Research

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A $2 million investment from a Denver angel investor group is the latest step forward for the biomedical startup CNine Biosolutions. Two entrepreneurs are using technology they developed at UAB to create a rapid and simple test to distinguish bacterial meningitis from viral meningitis.

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The new Utah law, titled Legislative Fiscal Analyst Amendments, requires the Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst to evaluate current and long-term trends relating to taxes and federal fund receipts and requires the initiation of a three-year cycle of analysis on revenue volatility and other budget matters.

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New research from the University of Portsmouth has called for stronger industry legislation in developing countries to help fight business monopolies reducing competition.

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An event marking the official opening of the new Pizza Hut Museum on the Innovation Campus at Wichita State University will take place at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, at the museum.

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Professor Elena Loutskina led a discussion on how investors can better target innovations that improve society with Village Capital President Ross Baird at Darden's Sands Family Grounds in the Washington, D.C., area.

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Researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Management have developed a new algorithm that cloud computing service providers can use to establish pricing and allocate resources.

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Argonne announces second cohort of Chain Reaction Innovations.

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At the 2018 Tom Tom Founders Festival, Darden Professor Greg Fairchild led a discussion on how the finance sector and finance tools can help fight socioeconomic inequalities.

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The DHS Science and Technology Directorate awarded $189,863 today to iProov Ltd. of London, England, to improve the screening process for international passengers. This is the first award to an international company from S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today released its 2018 Mobile Security Research and Development (R&D) Program Guide that introduces the technology projects, goals and objectives and their alignment with DHS and federal mobile security strategies and priorities.

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Michael Solomon, Ph.D., professor of marketing at Saint Joseph’s University and author of "Marketers, Tear Down These Walls!: Liberating the Postmodern Consumer," suggests that traditional lines drawn between market segments — young vs. old, online vs. in-store — are far from effective in today's business world.

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Male and female CEOs are paid equally in corporate America, according to research by a team at The University of Alabama of 18 years of CEO compensation in large, public firms.

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You might expect that a boss who cracks jokes is healthy for the workplace, while a boss who blows his or her stack isn't. As it turns out, the opposite might be true — depending on the circumstances.The conclusions come from two new research papers by overlapping international research teams involving Washington University in St. Louis.

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Where machine learning meets spring planting and big data intersects with farming big and small, two Washington University in St. Louis researchers at Olin Business School have devised a computational model so farmers and seedmakers could take the guesswork out of which particular variety of, say, soybean to plant each year.

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Adaptable Ortho Innovations, LLC, a novel medical device startup rooted in a surgeon-engineer collaboration, earned second place recognition in the inaugural Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) Business Plan Competition.

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The University of Virginia Darden School of Business Institute for Business in Society, Concordia and the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships today extended the application deadline to April 30, 2018 for the P3 Impact Award, which recognizes exemplary public-private partnerships (P3s) from around the world.

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Jane Mayer, author of the nonfiction bestseller “Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right,” will speak at UT Austin this Friday about how untraceable corporate money is affecting American democracy.

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Darden Professor Scott Snell discusses the importance of strategic execution and how to perform it successfully, featuring examples from LinkedIn, Marriott, Microsoft and UPS.

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At the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, students celebrate the uniquely collaborative culture, the rigor of the academic program and the life-changing learning experiences during their two years in Charlottesville. This past March, 12 students and Professor Bobby Parmar took their Darden experience to the field as they spent six days backpacking through Patagonia in southern Chile.

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This March, 34 University of Virginia Darden School of Business students traveled to Israel for a new Darden Worldwide Course focused on innovation and technology in the country dubbed the “Startup Nation.” Led by Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne and joined by Dean Scott Beardsley, the students in the course developed an understanding of the forces at work in the success story of Israeli innovation and entrepreneurship culture.

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Five students have been selected for the Little Joe Ventures Fellowship Program in Entrepreneurship, a new initiative at Northwestern University that supports entrepreneurial innovation at the undergraduate level. Made possible by a gift from alumnus Tony Owen ’97, ’03 MBA and Monique Owen, the fellowship program is designed to arm students with the skills they need to be successful in their ventures and in life and to provide a support network of like-minded entrepreneurial thinkers.

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Small businesses in the innovation research and development domains will have the opportunity to engage with the DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program representatives in their own hometowns beginning April 16th.

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Navajo elder Selina Begay, 65, lives in a small house north of Kayenta, Arizona with no water, sewer or electricity. To help with the family income, Begay and many of the other female elders weave rugs and sell them.

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Two University of Delaware students put their best foot forward at this year's National Sustainable Design Expo, showing off a biodegradable shoe they fashioned using mushrooms, chicken feathers and textile waste. Researchers hope the shoe can help address waste in the fashion industry.

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The Value Investing Panel (VIP) is organized and run by the University’s Portfolio Practicum students, and is designed for those interested in value investing by bringing some of the biggest names in business to discuss the current state of the stock market and alternative investment strategies.

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Researchers are proposing the creation of an open-source network that uses blockchains – the technology behind cryptocurrencies – to share verifiable manufacturing data. The network would allow companies to more easily find manufacturers capable of producing components on a reliable basis.

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Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, philanthropist and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, will speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 12. Her talk, “My Leadership Journey,” is brought to the university as part of its 2017-18 Distinguished Lecture Series.

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Consumer buying power for racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. is rising.

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In the closest finish in nearly three decades of identifying the nation’s top airlines, Alaska Air barely edged out Delta Airlines to retain its No. 1 position, according to the 28th annual Airline Quality Rating (AQR), announced today, Monday, April 9, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

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A University of Kentucky faculty member is looking into explanations for why prices for consumers don't always come back down the way we may think they should.

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McCombs School of Business Dean Jay Hartzell has appointed Raji Srinivasan as the school’s first associate dean for diversity and inclusion, effective July 1, 2018. The search process included multiple engagements with faculty, staff, and students across the university who provided valuable insight and feedback that assisted in selection of this pivotal role.

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With some 900 brewers up and down the state, more CSU campuses are preparing students to work in this rapidly growing field.

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ANSYS will provide the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's new Connected Systems Institute with engineering simulation software to enhance its research and educational efforts related to the "industrial internet of things."

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DePaul University has faculty experts who can talk about financial technology (fintech), cryptocurrencies and how growing interest in both areas have influenced what they teach.

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UVA Darden Professor Ting Xu delves into the unique benefits of crowdfunding, namely the value of feedback, and some of its drawbacks.

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Speaking to University of Virginia Darden School of Business students at a Leadership Speaker Series event, Matt Kaness Former Modcloth CEO recounted his unlikely career journey and the pivotal role the Darden School played and continues to play in his life.

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Mike Chapple, associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, says the hacking was sophisticated, clever and carefully designed to appeal to specific professors.

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Babson’s Women Innovating Now (WIN) Lab® in Boston has appointed business leader Kara Miller as director. She will lead the fifth WIN Lab cohort into their finale event at Babson Boston on May 2, 2018.

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A new FAU study shows that expatriates’ personality characteristics have a lot to do with how well they adjust and whether they succeed and provide a return on a company’s considerable investment in an individual.

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This year’s recipients—David Bornstein and Tina Rosenberg, Co-Founders of the Solutions Journalism Network, and Jeffrey Brown ’86, CEO of Brown's Superstores and Founder of Uplift Solutions, were recognized on the Wellesley campus on March 28, 2018.

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The NSF-funded FEWSION Project maps the U.S. economy's food, energy and water systems. In light of the proposed tariffs, the researchers looked at how Americans could be affected differently.

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University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Ken Eades is retiring after 30 years of teaching at the school.

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West Virginia University is one of only two universities worldwide selected to receive a research and development program award from AVEVA, a leader in engineering and industrial software. The first-of-its-kind award will be used to focus on the research and development of next generation engineering design and simulation software.

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New regulations on banks fueled a boom in nonbank mortgage companies, a category of independent lenders that are more lightly regulated and more financially fragile than banks. These lenders now originate half of all US home mortgages yet have little capital of their own.

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Actuarial math and computer science come together in a new study that aims to convince policymakers to invest in infrastructure cybersecurity.

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The idea to develop a futures contract for the bulk trucking industry appeared to fit a need, but before investing in the concept, leaders of Tennessee-based company wanted to know if the market would support it. In search of answers, they turned to Iowa State University’s CyBIZ Lab for help.