RIC a familiar place to new president (The Providence Journal)
Nancy Carriuolo says she sees much of herself in the students who attend Rhode Island College.
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What I Did at VC Camp (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
In the spring of 2007, Michael Sullivan was trying to figure out how to add some mojo to his startup, Affine Systems. As a graduate student in applied mathematics at Harvard University, Sullivan had co-founded the company in the fall of 2006 with classmate Bobby Impollonia. Working out of their homes, the two computer whizzes had whipped up a software program to let media companies know if …
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Scientists Research Use Of Electrical Stimulation To Make Artificial Limbs ‘Feel’ Real (Medical News Today)
Scientists are investigating whether by electrically stimulating the skin they can ‘trick’ the brain into making an artificial limb feel like a real part of the body, in the hope of improving the quality of amputees’ lives.
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Global Clean Energy Holdings Appoints Dr. Mark A. Bernstein, the Director of USC’s Energy Institute and … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES—-Global Clean Energy Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has appointed Dr. Mark A. Bernstein Ph.D. to its Board of Directors. Dr. Bernstein is a Professor of Practice at the University of Southern California, where he also serves as the Managing Director of USC’s Energy Institute.
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