by Mauro Battocchi   Neuronguard, the transformational Italian startup company that works to prevent Acute Brain Damage, won the Intel Business Challenge in the category "Internet of Things Hardware". As many readers know, the Internet of Things is a rapidly expanding new area of high technology that has both fierce competition and huge gree...

Lo scorso giugno Linda Serra è volata negli States per prendere parte, in qualità di donna leader, all'International Visitors Leadership Program organizzato dal Dipartimento di Stato Americano. In questa intervista ci racconta la sua avventura e cosa ha imparato.   Linda, innanzitutto, parlaci di te. Ho 38 anni, vivo a Bologna e lavoro in...

AAA tecnologia italiana cerca investimenti americani. Con tre parole chiave con cui, l'Italia si è presentata all'elite del business americano, in un summit dal titolo esplicito: "Influence, relevance and growth" (influenza, rilevanza e crescita).   Opera di Fernando Napolitano - già amministratore delegato di Booz Allen Hamilton in Italia,...

The Ambassador of Italy in the United States, Claudio Bisogniero, representing the Ministry of Education, University, and Research, signed an agreement on science and technology with the U.S. Department of Energy, represented by Under Secretary Lynn Orr.   "This agreement will allow Italy and the United States to exchange experts, scientific...

di Alessandra Troncana   Almeno tu, nell'universo (e sulla navicella spaziale). Tra le scocciature degli astronauti, oltre al cibo precotto, c'è l'igiene orale: pare che il problema sia stato risolto. Al prossimo viaggio nello spazio, Samantha Cristoforetti e soci si laveranno i denti con Iko, lo spazzolino che si indossa come un guanto. &n...

The Times They Are a-Changin'... also in Italy, thanks of a new generation of startuppers who don't wait anymore for something/somebody else, but take their own destiny in their hands. So said Riccardo Luna - (first from right in the photo) the founder of Wired.it and author of "Cambiamo tutto! Let's change everything! The revolution of innovators"...

Introduction The Italian Government awards scholarships for studying in Italy both to foreign citizens and Italiancitizens resident abroad (IRE). The list of the countries whose citizens and IRE may apply can be seenon the Ministry of Foreign Affairs webpagehttp://www.esteri.it/MAE/EN/Ministero/Servizi/Stranieri/Opportunita/BorseStudio_stranieri.h...

Bologna, 26 marzo 2014 - Le aziende americane – una su tutte la Philip Morris – hanno scelto Bologna per la qualità delle risorse umane e per la capacità dell'innovazione, ciò nonostante le leggi, le tasse e la burocrazia italiane.   È quanto emerso ieri pomeriggio in un incontro organizzato nella sede di Alma Graduate School da Confindustri...

Gloria Ricci Lothrop, a pioneering California historian who was the first female professor hired to teach in Cal Poly Pomona's history department, died Feb. 2 in Arcadia after battling chronic pulmonary disease and pneumonia. She was 80.   Lothrop joined the faculty at Cal Poly Pomona in 1970. She spent the bulk of her career at the universi...

Of all the people found at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), about 85 occupy the unique role of postdoctoral researcher.   The postdocs, as they're known, contribute to the wealth of research capabilities at NREL as they work alongside established scientists. The recently minted Ph.D graduates are hired to...