Local News in Berkeley, Illinois
U.S. Plans Major Changes in How Students Are Tested
Could the bubble be on the way out? In the near future, students may take their tests on computers.USDA, DOE Partner to Fund Biofuel Genomics Research NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The US Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture is pumping $8.9 million into a new set of research programs that will use genomics and systems biology to improve upon and develop ways to get bioenergy from nonfood fibers in plants.
U.S. Asks Educators to Reinvent Student Tests, and How They Are Given Standardized exams -- the multiple-choice, bubble tests in math and reading that have played a growing role in American public education in recent years -- are being overhauled.
Rockefeller, Energy Secretary Chu to Discuss Carbon Storage at Forum The Sept. 8 forum at the University of Charleston will look ahead at how West Virginia can be a clean coal leader.
Contractor charged in theft of ring from Winnetka home A 31-year-old Kankakee man, who police said was working as a contractor at a Winnetka residence, faces felony charges in connection with the Aug. 26 theft of a $6,000 ring.
Penn awarded $7.5 million from NSF to contribute 'nebula' to next Internet architecture ( University of Pennsylvania ) A collaboration of network researchers led by Jonathan Smith of the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded $7.5 million by the National Science Foundation to help build a network architecture, Nebula, to support trustworthy "cloud computing" with a secure, more robust next-generation Internet.
Nanotechnology: Small wonders The US National Nanotechnology Initiative has spent billions of dollars on submicroscopic science in its first 10 years. Corie Lok finds out where the money went and what the initiative plans to do next.
Con-way Inc. Announces 2010 Scholarship Winners SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - 09/01/10) - Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW - News ) today announced that it has awarded nearly $200,000 in educational grants to exemplary children of its employees as part of the annual Con-way Scholarship Program. This year's funds will help support the educational aspirations of 166 new and continuing students of universities, community colleges and vocational programs ...
Carolyn McNiven Joins Litigation Practice in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DLA Piper announced today that Carolyn McNiven has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in the San Francisco office. McNiven previously served as Deputy Chief in the Financial Fraud and Special Prosecutions Section for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. In that capacity, she established the district’s ...
Cyberinfrastructure Expert James Myers to Lead the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at Rensselaer ... James Myers, who currently serves as associate director for cyberenvironments at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, has been selected by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to lead the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) at Rensselaer.