Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, may be getting ready to support legislation to grant green cards to holders of advanced degrees in the so-called STEM fields. Smith, the gatekeeper on immigration ...
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Monday marked the start of the 2013 federal fiscal year, and with it the release of a new batch of H-1B visas. The 85,000 H-1B visa cap, including the 20,000 visas that are set aside for advanced degree graduates with STEM (Science, ...
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Eight African countries have begun setting up Internet exchange points as part of an ambitious project by the Internet Society and the African Union Commission, aimed at improving interconnectivity between countries and reducing ...
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Purdue and Harvard universities have produced stacked nanowire (NW) transistors with increased drive current and maximum transconductance. The results were presented on Wednesday 12 December at the International Electron Devices Meeting ...
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Light output power increased 23% over conventional lateral LEDs. Korea's universities have used aluminum-alloyed graphite as a thermally conducting substrate to improve the light output power performance of nitride semiconductor LEDs by ...
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Joint Statement of the Iraq – U.S. Cultural and Educational Cooperation Joint Coordination Committee Pursuant to the 2008 Strategic Framework Agreement (SFA) between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq, the third ...
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A Republican-led effort to issue up to 55,000 STEM visas a year to students who earn advanced degrees at U.S. universities was defeated Thursday in a House vote. Because the bill was brought up on the suspension calendar, it needed a ...
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Colleges and universities are moving swiftly to create advanced degree programs in analytics to manage big data. The schools have all seen the McKinsey Co. report warning of a mega shortage in analytical talent of as many as 190,000 ...
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The partnership arrangements between companies and schools have developed into a major factor in the success of WASsERLEBEN, a show aimed at the general public. Since 1993 WASsERLEBEN has been a regular feature of Wasser Berlin ...
10 students of the University of Karachi received the POSCO Asia Fellowship at a ceremony on December 21stFriday. The ceremony was jointly organized by the KU and the POSCO TJ Park Foundation. After the ceremony, a MoU was signed ...
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Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs and into c, it was claimed this week. Dial-up supercomputing services are making it possible for smaller companies to analyse vast quantities of data, run engineering ...
Since 2003 a leading provider of web-based auction management software for charity auctions -- today announces the launch of ReadySetAuction Live. This next-generation bidding platform leverages increasingly ubiquitous personal mobile ...
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FrontDoorSoftware Corporation, a young start-up company that provides universities with a Safe Campus computer program that allows students, faculty and staff on campus access to valuable laptop theft prevention and tracking software, has ...
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UK universities are missing out on applicants because they fail to treat students like any other online consumer, digital agency Nomensa has warned. Nomensa has urged universities to take a more intuitive approach to their online ...
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A team of students at the Fontys Hogeschool in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has won a challenge set by Atos to create smart mobile applications. The team beat off competition from a team at Warwick University in the UK and one from a ...
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