University of Kansas Medical Center to Deploy Velos eResearch System-Wide

December 4th, 2008

Velos, Inc., the recognized leader and trusted resource for clinical trials management information systems, announced that it has signed an agreement with the University of Kansas Medical Center (KU Medical Center). KU Medical Center will deploy Velos eResearch in a comprehensive, system-wide roll-out that supports the regulatory, administrative, financial and clinical information needs of [...]


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Frontier Communications and Penn Foster Go the Distance and Offer Students Special Value

December 4th, 2008

Frontier Communications Corporation, the nation’s second largest rural local communications company, announced a marketing partnership with Penn Foster, Inc., a global leader in distance education. The parties’ collaborative arrangement offers Penn Foster students and alumni throughout the U.S. discounted pricing on Frontier’s innovative Peace of Mind services. Peace of Mind includes automatic hard drive [...]


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More Minority Students Earn Degrees From University of Phoenix Than From Any Other University in the Nation

December 4th, 2008

University of Phoenix announced that more minority students earn degrees from University of Phoenix than from any other university in the nation, according to recently released data aggregated from Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
“University of Phoenix has made higher education accessible to all walks of life including minority, first generation, underrepresented, rural and other [...]


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Indianapolis Lands Influential National Medical Technology Organization

December 4th, 2008

Indianapolis will be the new home of one of the premier non-partisan medical technology think tanks in the United States. The Medical Technology Leadership Forum (MTLF) is relocating from Minneapolis to Indy. To celebrate the organization’s new headquarters location, the group is holding one of their three yearly forums in Indianapolis next Monday and Tuesday, [...]


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‘Friendly Bacteria Improve Health’ Segment Broadcasts On The National Medical Report

December 4th, 2008

Yakult USA Inc., the North American business of global leader and probiotics pioneer, Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., is pleased to announce that it will broadcast an educational segment entitled “Friendly bacteria improve health,” via the National Medical Report on U.S. public television. Hosted by famed TV journalist Mr. Hugh Downs, the 4-minute interstitial program challenges [...]


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EducationDynamics Survey: Graduate School Marketers Turn Their Focus Online in Face of Budget Cuts

December 4th, 2008

Forty percent of marketing professionals for graduate schools across the country expect their budgets to be cut in 2009, according to a recent survey of more than 300 professionals responsible for marketing their institutions’ graduate programs. The online study conducted last month by EducationDynamics, in association with its online graduate schools directory GradSchools.com, provides insight [...]


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Lingo Media Corporation: Speak2Me Launches Version 1.0 to Web Users in China

December 4th, 2008

Lingo Media Corporation, a leader in online and print-based English language learning products, is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Speak2Me Inc. (”Speak2Me”), a state-of-the-art online English language learning service has achieved another significant milestone by launching version 1.0 website through www.speak2me.cn and has opened the site to the public in China.
The launch of [...]


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Go Healthy Updates Progress With University Sports Programs

December 4th, 2008

Go Healthy, Inc. announced that the company has gained over 60 Division 1 and 1-AA schools as customers for the Go!® Energy Recovery Shakes and Bars, including many of the top names of schools with major sports programs.
Stuart Evey, Chairman of Go Healthy and formerly the founding Chairman of ESPN, states, “We know how [...]


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Harmony Development, A Starwood Capital Affiliate, Signs MOU With Florida State University To Develop Energy R&D Facility

December 4th, 2008

Harmony Development Company, an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group Global, LLC, announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Florida State University to build Florida State’s Energy and Sustainability Center, a state-of-the-art energy research facility, at the green certified development of Harmony, Florida. The center will be located within Harmony’s recently created [...]


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Philadelphia’s Girard College Campus Goes Wireless with High-Performance 802.11N WLAN from Meru

December 4th, 2008

Philadelphia’s Girard College, an independent boarding school for academically capable primary and secondary students from families with limited resources, will complete deployment of a Meru Networks high-performance IEEE 802.11n wireless network for its 750 students, faculty and staff in December.
The Meru virtual cell wireless LAN, being installed in most of the academic and residential buildings [...]


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