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The Academic Leadership Group Welcomes Karen Kashmanian Oates to its Higher Education Consulting Practice

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023
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The Academic Leadership Group (ALG), an industry-leading consultancy for leadership excellence and innovation in academia, is delighted to welcome Karen Kashmanian Oates, a nationally recognized higher education leader, to its higher education consulting practice.

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  • The Academic Leadership Group (ALG), an industry-leading consultancy for leadership excellence and innovation in academia, is delighted to welcome Karen Kashmanian Oates, a nationally recognized higher education leader, to its higher education consulting practice.
  • “Karen’s direct experience in leading university-wide initiatives at both the dean and provost level is a tremendous resource for our clients,” explained Jennifer Stine, the co-founder of ALG and lead of the higher education consulting practice.
  • To learn more about the Academic Leadership Group and the services it offers, visit: www.academicleadershipgroup.com
    About the Academic Leadership Group, Inc.
  • The Academic Leadership Group (ALG), founded in 2019, is a woman-owned consulting firm focused on providing award-winning coaching and higher education consulting services to universities.

KESHAV PINGALI SELECTED TO RECEIVE ACM-IEEE CS KEN KENNEDY AWARD

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) have named Keshav Pingali, a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, as the recipient of the 2023 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. One of the IEEE CS's highest awards, the Ken Kennedy Award honors individuals with outstanding achievements in programmability or productivity in high-performance computing, together with significant community service or mentoring contributions. Pingali is cited for "contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms."

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  • LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) have named Keshav Pingali, a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, as the recipient of the 2023 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award.
  • One of the IEEE CS's highest awards, the Ken Kennedy Award honors individuals with outstanding achievements in programmability or productivity in high-performance computing, together with significant community service or mentoring contributions.
  • Pingali is cited for "contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms."
  • Pingali has made important contributions to software theory and practice in the areas of compilers, tools and programming languages for parallelism and memory management.

Universities Space Research Association Selected as One of Five Organizations to Mitigate Environmental Impact of Aviation

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Thursday, August 31, 2023
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Condensation trails—commonly known as contrails—occur when aircraft exhaust water mixes with cold, surrounding humid air at high altitude.

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  • Condensation trails—commonly known as contrails—occur when aircraft exhaust water mixes with cold, surrounding humid air at high altitude.
  • As part of this project, Universities Space Research Association will develop a real-time aviation contrail prediction and observation system that will improve airspace operations through new atmospheric data services and ensemble modeling approaches.
  • USRA has partnered with the Aeronautics Directorate of NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley and NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virgina, for the project.
  • The other organizations selected to mitigate the environmental impact of aviation include:
    Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (Redondo Beach, CA)
    RTX Technologies Research Center (East Hartford, CT)

From startup to Big Tech: Stone brings Luiz André Barroso to the Board

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Thursday, April 6, 2023
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SÃO PAULO, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday (6), Stone (Nasdaq: STNE) announced the arrival of Luiz André Barroso to the Board of Directors. Building on the purpose of serving entrepreneurs with a complete technology platform, Stone takes another important step on the path to consolidate itself as a big tech without losing its startup essence.

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  • SÃO PAULO, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On Thursday (6), Stone (Nasdaq: STNE) announced the arrival of Luiz André Barroso to the Board of Directors.
  • Building on the purpose of serving entrepreneurs with a complete technology platform, Stone takes another important step on the path to consolidate itself as a big tech without losing its startup essence.
  • "Many people saw Stone as a simple service aggregator, they didn't see the company in its full technological capacity.
  • The Brazilian Luiz André Barroso is a world reference for his contributions to computer architecture and digital systems.

Breakthrough Discoveries in Human Immunology – Michelson Philanthropies and AAAS/Science Award Transformative Research

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Friday, February 17, 2023
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Michelson Philanthropies and AAAS/Science award Dr. Aleksandar Obradovic, of the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, with the 2023 Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology.

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  • Michelson Philanthropies and AAAS/Science award Dr. Aleksandar Obradovic, of the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, with the 2023 Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology.
  • “No field of medical research has more potential to transform the trajectory of human health care than does immunology,” says Dr. Gary K. Michelson, founder and co-chair of Michelson Philanthropies and the Michelson Medical Research Foundation.
  • The Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology is awarded annually to early-career researchers who conduct immunology research across a variety of cross-cutting disciplines such as computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, protein engineering, nanotechnology, genomics, neurodegenerative disease, etc.
  • Applications for the 2024 Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology will open on May 1, 2023.

USRA to administer Integrative Research in Emerging Technologies for Department of Homeland Security Use Cases Program

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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Through a new agreement with the MSI STEM Research & Development Consortium (MSRDC), the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) will administer the Integrative Research in Emerging Technologies for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Use Cases Program.

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  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Through a new agreement with the MSI STEM Research & Development Consortium (MSRDC), the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) will administer the Integrative Research in Emerging Technologies for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Use Cases Program.
  • This new program is designed to enable innovation in emerging technologies for DHS use cases, through an integrated portfolio of use-inspired and foundational research for emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), quantum information science (QIS), and autonomous & unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
  • "This program will drive innovation with an integrated portfolio of use-inspired and foundational research in emerging technologies focused on supporting high priority needs of today while preparing for the future at the same time" says Dr. David Bell, Principal Investigator of the Integrative Research in Emerging Technologies for DHS Use Cases Program and Director of the USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS).
  • USRA will leverage its existing capabilities in partnership with both DHS OUP and MSRDC to implement this comprehensive new program.

Yousef Saad is the 2023 SIAM John von Neumann Prize Lecturer

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Thursday, January 26, 2023
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Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2023 John von Neumann Prize – the highest honor and flagship lecture of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – is awarded to Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to scientific computing.

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  • Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2023 John von Neumann Prize – the highest honor and flagship lecture of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – is awarded to Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota, in recognition of his fundamental contributions to scientific computing.
  • SIAM awards the John von Neumann Prize annually to an individual for outstanding and distinguished contributions to the field of applied mathematics and for the effective communication of these ideas to the community.
  • This prize was established in 1959 to honor John von Neumann, a Hungarian American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist, whose seminal work helped lead to the founding of modern computing.
  • Saad will be awarded the John von Neumann Prize and deliver the associated lecture at the 2023 ICIAM Congress, which will be held August 20 – 25, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan.

Tune in to Bloomberg on Saturday, November 5th to Watch a New Episode of Advancements

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Monday, October 31, 2022
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JUPITER, Fla., Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Advancements with Ted Danson is excited to announce the broadcast of an upcoming episode, scheduled to air on Saturday, November 5th at 8:00 pm ET in primetime on Bloomberg.

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  • In this episode, Advancements will explore how improvements in research across the drug discovery and development trajectory are bringing trustworthy, relevant, and easily understandable information to the public.
  • Viewers will discover how AAPS provides the right tools for identifying trustworthy science while also providing scientists with access to research outside their own disciplines.
  • With complex rules and complicated language Americans often have a difficult time deciphering and understanding healthcare benefits and coverage.
  • About Advancements and DMG Productions:
    Advancements is an information-based educational television series that explores recent developments taking place across several industries and economies.

Wiley Launches ‘Partner Solutions’ Division in Research to Support the Transition to Open Access Publishing

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Monday, October 17, 2022
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In the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair, Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in research and education, today announced Wiley Partner Solutions , a new division within its Research business.

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  • In the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair, Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in research and education, today announced Wiley Partner Solutions , a new division within its Research business.
  • Wiley Partner Solutions serves associations, scientific publishers, societies and corporations as they transform their business strategies and publishing processes in the open research era.
  • Wiley Partner Solutions delivers a broad array of digital platforms, publishing solutions, and services to help partners scale, collaborate, and accelerate their publishing programs, while at the same time supporting the value chain of scholarly publishing.
  • Wiley Partner Solutions will operate separately from Wileys Research Publishing business and will be reported as Research Solutions or Research Partner Solutions in the Companys public filings and financial statements.

Quantum-Si’s Next-Generation Single-Molecule Protein Sequencing Technology Published in Science, Signaling New Era of Life Science and Biomedical Research

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Thursday, October 13, 2022
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Oct. 13, 2022-- Quantum-Si Incorporated (Nasdaq: QSI) (Quantum-Si, QSI or the Company), a life sciences company commercializing the first next-generation single-molecule protein sequencing platform, today announced that Science , the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published new research showcasing how single-molecule protein sequencing via semiconductor chip and Time Domain Sequencing technologies will transform life science and biomedical research.

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  • Oct. 13, 2022-- Quantum-Si Incorporated (Nasdaq: QSI) (Quantum-Si, QSI or the Company), a life sciences company commercializing the first next-generation single-molecule protein sequencing platform, today announced that Science , the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published new research showcasing how single-molecule protein sequencing via semiconductor chip and Time Domain Sequencing technologies will transform life science and biomedical research.
  • I am proud and excited to share the first next-generation single-molecule protein sequencing technology with the world, said Dr. Rothberg, senior author of the paper.
  • This approach eliminates roadblocks of complex chemistry and large, expensive equipment facing other technologies, while providing the sensitivity, scalability, and accessibility needed to accelerate biomedical research.
  • More information, including a copy of the paper, can be found online at the Science press package at https://www.eurekalert.org/press/scipak/ .