I apparently missed this release that ACULIS distributed last Friday, 2-22-08, specifically:
5:55 a.m. (EST) ACULIS and UVSC Partner to Construct an Advanced Software Testing Lab
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After a quick scour of the web for some juicy tech news, the only thing that seemed to pop up pertained to football . . .
Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, etc…
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Apparently the kids in Utah schools don’t have the greatest nerd skills, and they don’t have the tools to exercise that poindexter power either. The state scored an F in access to technology and it scored an F in kids’ capacity to use technology even though they scored an A on how much they use [...]
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Scientists from the University of Utah and the Utah Museum of Natural History have discovered the remains of a new bird-like, meat-eating dinosaur in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. And they thought bird flu was scary. Now we’re finding carnivorous chickens that once roamed the earth.
Although represented only by the fossilized remains of hand [...]
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Dear R. Wheeler, an assistant professor of engineering at Brigham Young University, was recently awarded a $400,000 grant and presented with the Faculty Early Career Development Award by the National Science Foundation. The award was given for Wheeler’s work on “large-scale molecular simulations of electrocatalysis, and is considered one of the most prestigious awards for [...]
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Utah Valley State College (UVSC) announced that it will now offer a minor and bachelor of Information Systems degree starting in the fall of 2006 and offered through the Department of Information Systems and Technology.
Via [Provo Daily Herald]
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Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. signed a bill into law yesterday, which will provide $46.75 million to construct a state-of-the-art, high-tech library on the campus of Utah Valley State College. The Salt Lake Tribune writes that this could be a sign that the state college is on its way to becoming the next university in [...]
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A trademark of effective learning comes by teaching effective principles, measuring what students learn to see if the teaching is effective, and then making any needed changes. American Fork-based Certiport has teamed up with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) to provide comprehensive technology assessments for K-12 students, to see if students are [...]
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A roundtable of experts from the biotech industry suggested at Utah State University that students interested in entering the biotech field take some business, economics and other critical thinking courses to accompany their science & technology courses in order to become more attactive to employers.
Via [Salt Lake Tribune]
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Shannon Babb, a senior from American Fork High School, was awarded winner of the Intel Science Talent Search contest in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.? Babb also wins the $100,000 college scholarship that comes along with the award, in which she beat out 1,558 other students who competed. Those students represented 486 high schools in 44 [...]
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