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, [...]
Acuo Technologies®, developers of high-performance software for intelligent medical image management, data migration tools and services, announced the contracting with Rush University Medical Center of Chicago, IL, for a new vendor neutral archiving solution which becomes the basis of the Hospital’s medical image management platform. The archiving solution is based on the Acuo Technologies [...]
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) has awarded grants totaling $199,390 to five projects designed to help the public realize the benefits of financial planning and working with CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals.
The 2008 grant award recipients, and their programs, are:
AccountAbility Minnesota of St. Paul, Minn. will expand the financial planning services it [...]
Capella University, an accredited*, fully online university that has built its reputation by providing quality education for working adults, has released its latest Inside Online Education podcast. It features a discussion of financial aid options at Capella with Mike Nylund, the university’s financial aid director.
These regular podcasts feature interviews with Capella students, faculty and staff [...]
In the midst of what has become the season for Americans to overspend, over schedule, and dwell in excess, a group of Minnesotans is pushing back against the Black Friday tradition. This group, led by University of Minnesota family social science professor William Doherty, aims to challenge the hyper over-consumption and frantic pace of life [...]
Lawson Software announced that Fresno Unified School District licensed the Lawson Human Resource Management Suite and the Lawson S3 System Foundation, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Process Management and Learning Accelerator Suites. The district will use the software to help support data-driven decision making and improve its ability to recruit, retain and develop highly skilled teachers [...]
RMS Titanic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions, Inc., has entered into an agreement to bring Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition to the Science Museum of Minnesota. The Exhibition is scheduled to open in June 2009.
This record setting Exhibition is a chronological journey through life on board the Titanic and compassionately tells its personal [...]
The Wal-Mart Foundation is celebrating Veteran’s Day by donating a total of $3.6 million in grants to 12 organizations to support programs that provide educational assistance for veterans. The American Council on Education (ACE) received a $2.5 million grant to support successful veteran educational assistance programs in 20 institutions of higher education. In addition, the [...]
Elementary school students will eat more whole grains when healthier bread products are gradually introduced into their school lunches, a new University of Minnesota study shows.
Whole grain breads are strongly recommended as part of a healthy diet, but children and pre-teens won’t always eat them. For this study, researchers from the university’s department of food [...]
Six new screenwriters have been selected as winners in the 23rd Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Each writer or writing team will receive a prestigious $30,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills on [...]