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Mentoring Builds Great Leaders, but Only If There Is Fierce Honesty
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Mentoring Builds Great Leaders, but Only If There Is Fierce Honesty

A new study suggests that pairing a seasoned pro with a promising prospect in an informal mentorship was significantly more potent in developing strong leaders...

Vcu Training Simulator Tests, Evaluates School Leaders
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Vcu Training Simulator Tests, Evaluates School Leaders

Using a five-year, $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, researchers with "Project ALL" are developing a computer simulator that evaluates...

­.va. Team Awarded $3 Million Nsf Secure Computation Grant
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­.va. Team Awarded $3 Million Nsf Secure Computation Grant

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to a team lead by University of Virginia computer scientist David Evans for a project to develop...

How to Conduct a Job Search: What You Need to Know Today
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How to Conduct a Job Search: What You Need to Know Today

Initiating a job search by social networking represents a significant change in the way IT jobseekers look for work today. Job hunters and career experts both say...

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
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Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

Three Harvard researchers studying cooperation and competition in the workplace found that women's and men's workplace performance may be strongly linked to the...

Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch
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Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem from Scratch

A team of scientists has taken a major step toward developing robot biologists. They have shown that their system, the Automated Biology Explorer, can solve a complicated...

$9.8m Program Aims to Change How Science Is Taught
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$9.8m Program Aims to Change How Science Is Taught

A coalition of regional partners in upstate New York has received $9.8 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to expand a promising, teacher-focused...

High-Tech and Traditional Techniques ­sed to Study Dinosaur Tracks
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High-Tech and Traditional Techniques ­sed to Study Dinosaur Tracks

The discovery of a large field of dinosaur tracks in Arkansas has researchers busy using cutting-edge technology and traditional techniques to learn all that they...

Prepare to Fill One of 1.5 Million Data-Savvy Manager Jobs
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Prepare to Fill One of 1.5 Million Data-Savvy Manager Jobs

By 2018 the United States faces a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills as well as 1.5 million managers and analysts to analyze big...

So Many U.S. Manufacturing Jobs, So Few Skilled Workers
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So Many U.S. Manufacturing Jobs, So Few Skilled Workers

U.S. manufacturers are failing to fill thousands of vacant jobs, surprising when 14 million people are searching for work. Companies report difficulty finding...

'thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids
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'thinking Machines' Will Guide Future Power Grids

Plans to develop the "smart" grid cannot succeed without the creation of new "thinking machines" that can learn and adapt to new situations, says Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy...

Researchers ­se Text, Computers to Spot ­nique Language of Psychopathic Killers
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Researchers ­se Text, Computers to Spot ­nique Language of Psychopathic Killers

Using computerized text analysis, Cornell University Computing and Information Science Professor Jeff Hancock found that psychopathic murderers make identifiable...

Countdown: America's No. 1 Solar Car Ready to Race the World
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Countdown: America's No. 1 Solar Car Ready to Race the World

With a cutting-edge solar car, an advanced strategy and an intrepid 16-student race crew, the University of Michigan's national champion solar car team is ready...

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Stanford Teams With City College (think Engineering School)

In the chess match to determine which university will get a chance to build a graduate school of applied sciences on public land in New York City, Stanford is...

Women and Technology an Untapped Part of Economy
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Women and Technology an Untapped Part of Economy

More than 150 years after Ada Lovelace paved the way for the world's first computer program, Patrice Braun is working on the international stage to close the gap...

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Patent Lawyer Demand Rises Following ­.s. Legislative Overhaul

 Patent attorneys, who typically have degrees in fields such as engineering as well as law, are in such demand that their specialty may account for more than 15...

New Data-Mining Effort Launched to Study Mental Disorders
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New Data-Mining Effort Launched to Study Mental Disorders

Chicago will be home to a new $13.75 million project that will apply data mining methods to better understand the genetic and environmental factors behind neuropsychiatric...

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How Many Security Clearances Have Been Issued?

More than 4.2 million people have security clearances for access to classified information, a number that vastly outstrips previous estimates and nearly rivals...

Non-Compete Agreements Create 'career Detours'
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Non-Compete Agreements Create 'career Detours'

A new study by an MIT professor shows that non-compete agreements come with a high cost for employees: When those workers shift jobs, roughly one-third end up...

End of Fermilab's Tevatron Evokes Memories, Pride
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End of Fermilab's Tevatron Evokes Memories, Pride

The Tevatron particle accelerator which generated high-energy collisions at Fermilab for 28 years was shut down for the last time on Sept. 30.
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