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200 lead bricks stolen at university

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 2 (UPI) -- University of Michigan police said 200 lead bricks have been reported stolen from outside a building on the school's Ann Arbor campus.

Tom Roberts oil painting stolen from ANU

A Tom Roberts painting, Goulburn River, has been stolen from The Australian National University.A Tom Roberts painting, Goulburn River, has been stolen from The Australian National University.

Dal Khalsa: RSS wants Sikhs out of Punjab University

Hoshiarpur, Punjab (KP) -- On Wednesday the Dal Khalsa announced that the plot to place Punjab University in the control of the Central government would be detrimental to students attending Punjab University. The plot was first propagated by a small part of the teaching staff in which they mentioned such a step would be beneficial for teachers, since the Union Government offers teachers a retirement age of 65. However, besides a few university teachers, everyone from the non teaching staff of the University had no interest in being part of the Union Government.

Iranian teams reach final stage of RoboCup-2008 competitions

The Iranian teams from Sharif University of Technology, Qazvin Islamic Azad University, Khajeh Nasir al-Din Toosi University of Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology and Isfahan University reached the final stage of the tournament.

Robotics at Maryland Makes a Splash: U-Md. Students Win International Underwater Robotics Competition, Host New Speedway Competition, Sept. 6

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Maryland's student robotics group, Robotics@Maryland, won the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and Office of Naval Research 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Competition in San Diego, Calif., on Aug. 3. Fresh off their victory in that competition, University of Maryland robotics students are preparing for another competition to be hosted a little closer to home --- right in College Park, in fact. The university will host a new regional competition for land robots, the Autonomous Robot Speedway, on Sept. 6. A ROBOT THAT SWIMS The Robotics@Maryland team competed in the AUV Competition against 25 other teams from across the United States, India, Canada and Japan, including Cornell University, University of Florida, Univers

University of Maryland Team Wins Robot Sub Competition

William Cox writes "A team from the University of Maryland has won the 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, held in San Diego, CA, this weekend. Twenty-five teams from around the world (US, Canada, Japan, and India) built autonomous submarines to complete a series of tasks using vision recognition, autonomous navigation, and sonar. Maryland unseated the 3-time record holder, University of Florida, to win first place. University of Texas at Dallas took 2nd, and a Canadian team, École de Technologie Supérieure, took 3rd."

Google Gives $300,000 to Oregon State University for Open Source Projects

Google has donated $300,000 to Oregon State University to build more capacity at its open source computing lab, which means the company has now given a total of $750,000 to the lab, the university said in a statement. The money will further the work of the university, which has already played a role in some of the largest open source computing projects, including the Mozilla Firefox browser, parts of the One Laptop Per Child project, and the Linux Foundation’s main infrastructure.

Quantum 'Traffic Jam' Revealed: Findings May Help Get Current Flowing At Higher Temperatures

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, have uncovered the first experimental evidence for why the transition temperature of high-temperature superconductors -- the temperature at which these materials carry electrical current with no resistance -- cannot simply be elevated by increasing the electrons' binding energy.

Four-legged Germans are world champions in robot soccer

In the 12th RoboCup World Championships in Suzhou, China, the German team under the leadership of Max Risler from the Informatics department of the TU Darmstadt won the world title in the four-legged robots league. In the final game they beat a team called Wright Eagle Unleashed fielded by the combined University of Science and Technology, China, and the University of Technology, Sydney/Australia by 5:0. The German team is a cooperation between the TU Darmstadt, the Humboldt University in Berlin and the University of Bremen.

Anna University to conduct international seminar on Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

Anna University, Tiruchirappalli, one of the new Technical Universities in Tamil Nadu, is organizing an international seminar and workshop on "Medical and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology" on September 25 and 26 at the University's Department of Pharmaceutical Technology.

UC Davis Research Could Lead to No Scent, No Sex For the Japanese Beetle

The University of California, Davis chemical ecologists, led by Walter Leal, have isolated, identified, cloned and expressed a pheromone-degrading enzyme in the Japanese beetle that could lead to important applications in controlling the invasive pest that has threatened U.S. agriculture since 1916. Damages in the larval and adult stages cost more than $450 million annually in the United States, according to the USDA. Full story

Destination University Online Training Comes to Main Street New Jersey's Downtown Business Owners

LONGMONT, Colo., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Destination University, the online training library created exclusively for small business owners, will be accessible August 1 to thirty-two Main Street New Jersey downtown districts. Main Street New Jersey, through a grant to the Center for Non-Profits, will bring the Destination University trainings ( www.DestinationUniversity.com ) to all downtown business owners located in their program's Main Street communities.

Service provides Web sales lead response solution.

July 7, 2008 - Lead Chaser(TM) enables businesses to immediately connect to customers submitting forms via Web. When forms are submitted, corresponding data is converted to speech using text-to-speech technology, and phone call is initiated to business to notify salesperson of lead. Salesperson can then immediately make outbound call to customer while they may still be on website.

WUSTL to lead new international Alzheimer's disease research network

July 22, 2008 -- The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will lead a six-year, $16 million international research collaboration dedicated to understanding inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) will fund the project.

Three of four stolen art works recovered in Brazil

Women in a Women by Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, which was stolen from Brazil's Estacao Pinacoteca Museum in June, was recovered on Wednesday.Women in a Women by Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, which was stolen from Brazil's Estacao Pinacoteca Museum in June, was recovered on Wednesday.

The Research Foundation of State University of New York and Sigrity Filed Patent...

The Research Foundation of State University of New York and Sigrity Filed Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Ansoft/ANSYS SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)-- Sigrity, Inc., known for its power integrity and signal integrity software solutions for integrated circuits, IC packages and printed circuit boards, announced today that it filed a lawsuit with The Research Foundation of State University of New York against Ansoft Corp. and ANSYS, Inc. for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,504,423 ("the '423 patent"), titled "Method for Modeling Interactions in Multilayered Electronic Packaging Structures." The Research Foundation is the owner and Sigrity is the exclusive licensee of the '423 patent. The suit, pending in United States District Court in Albany New York, was filed on July 21, 2008 against Ansoft and alleges that Ansoft's products,

iRobot Awarded $200 Million Ceiling IDIQ U.S. Army Contract for Robotic Systems, Spare Parts and Accessories

BEDFORD, Mass. - (Business Wire) iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) today announced it has been awarded a $200 million ceiling priced Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), on behalf of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office in Warren, MI. Under the terms of the contract, the Army could order up to the full $200 million value in military robots, spare parts, training and repair services over the next five years.

Brazilian police recover last stolen Picasso

The 1933 engraving Minotaur, Drinker and Women by Pablo Picasso, stolen in June, has been recovered by Brazilian police. (Pinacoteca do Estado/Associated Press) The 1933 engraving Minotaur, Drinker and Women by Pablo Picasso, stolen in June, has been recovered by Brazilian police. (Pinacoteca do Estado/Associated Press)

Valuable Tom Roberts oil painting stolen

An oil painting by renowned Australian artist Tom Roberts has been stolen from the Australian National University in Canberra.

Rent a Site: Revolutionary Update for Lead Generation Through Top-Ranked Websites from ECommerce Partners

ECommerce Partners' Turnkey Solution Allows Companies to Rent Lead-Generating Websites at a Fraction of the Cost of Traditional Web Development NEWS FACTS -- ECommerce Partners launches revolutionary Rent-a-Site model for superior web presence and optimal lead generation. -- Monthly pricing is industry-dependent and based on search engine competition. -- Quality leads are delivered exclusively to one site tenant in each local market. -- Security Systems NYC and MyHome US are the first site tenants to sign on.

Two new IoN/Cranfield University courses achieve CPD recognition

Recognition for the purposes of Continuing Professional Education (CPD) has been awarded by the Royal College of Pathologists for the forthcoming Institute of Nanotechnology/Cranfield University one-day professional courses in Nanotoxicology and Nanobiosensors, to be held at Cranfield University on 9 and 10 October respectively.

$2M grant awarded to University of Kentucky for research on nanoparticles and human health

(Atlanta, Ga. – August 20, 2008) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the award of a $2 million grant to the University of Kentucky (UK) to investigate how the sizes and shapes of nanoparticles affect their ability to enter the brain. This is the largest EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant ever awarded to the University of Kentucky as well as the largest single grant ever awarded by EPA STAR for nanotechnology research.

$2M grant awarded to University of Kentucky for research on nanoparticles and human health

(Atlanta, Ga. August 20, 2008) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the award of a $2 million grant to the University of Kentucky (UK) to investigate how the sizes and shapes of nanoparticles affect their ability to enter the brain. This is the largest EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant ever awarded to the University of Kentucky as well as the largest single grant ever awarded by EPA STAR for nanotechnology research.

"Clear" Air-Travel Pass Data Stolen From SFO

Kozar_The_Malignant writes "A laptop containing the unencrypted security data for 33,000 travelers using the Clear system was stolen at San Francisco International Airport on July 26, according to CBS5 Television. The Clear system allows travelers who register and pay a $100.00 annual fee to speed through airport security by using a smart card at special kiosks in some airports. TSA has suspended new registrations in the system, which is run by a private contractor, Verified Identity Pass, Inc., a subsidiary of GE. The laptop was apparently stolen from a locked office at SFO. The company has now decided that it might be a good idea to encrypt the data in their systems. They are in the process of notifying customers that all of their personal data, including name, address, SSi number, passport number, date of birth, etc.

Silence obtains important patent protection for lead internal development compound, Atu027

London - 23 July 2008 - Silence Therapeutics plc (AIM: SLN), a leading European RNAi focused biotechnology company, today announces new intellectual property cover for its lead product, Atu027. The European Patent Office announced on July 17, 2008 that it intends to grant a European patent covering Silence's lead internal product candidate. This patent will give Silence broad exclusivity not only for Atu027, but for any siRNA targeting protein kinase N beta

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