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RTP Week Ahead, August 2-6

Cyclists on the American Tobacco Trail

Monday, August 2

SCV Entrepreneur’s Breakfast

8:00 – 9:15am

Southern Capitol Ventures, 21 Glenwood Avenue, Suite 105, Raleigh, NC

Want to start a company? Starting a company? Already an entrepreneur? Come join us for bagels and coffee. Meet some of your peers.

Sign up here.

Tuesday, August 3

Seminar: Regulation of androgen receptor transcription by MAGE-11

12:00 – 1:00pm

NIEHS, Rall Bldg. Exec. Conference Room

Speaker:  Dr. Elizabeth M. Wilson – Prof. of Pediatrics, Biochemistry & Biophysics – Laboratories for Reproductive Biology – UNC Chapel Hill. Details.

Wednesday, August 4

Health Care Reform: Myths vs. Facts

7:30 – 10:00am

North Ridge Country Club, 6612 Falls of Neuse Rd., Raleigh

Health care reform is expected to transform one of the Triangle’s fastest growing industries. This panel will explore and explain the implications of the landmark legislation for patients, physicians and employers.  Learn the facts, without the noise.

Cost: $30. More info.

Triangle Get Ready for Plug-in Electric Vehicles Education Forum

11:30am – 4:30pm

RTP HQ, 12 Davis Drive, RTP, NC 27709

Lunch will be provided. Space is limited so register today for this FREE forum to learn about plug-in electric vehicles and the infrastructure required to make electrified transportation a success!

Reserve your spot today.

Thursday, August 5

NC State University Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

8:00am – 5:00pm

McKimmon Center, 1101 Gorman Street, Raleigh, NC 27606

This 9th NC State University Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium showcases the hands-on scholarship of students from across the nation and from NCSU who have received funding from one of 20 different grants to conduct research during summer 2010. About 92% of participants are in biotechnology-linked disciplines.

Click here for details.

Durham Critical Mass Bike Ride

5:35 – 7:35pm

Ride Starts at the Bronze Bull Downtown Plaza, Durham

A monthly ride which calls attention to the rights of cyclist to the roads as a vital form of transportation.

Friday, August 6

Fault Lines in Global Health: Launch of CSIS Debate Series

9:30 – 11:00am

Live Webcast

On August 6, 2010, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center is launching a year-long debate series— Fault Lines in Global Health —intended to generate an informed, civil, bipartisan, and open airing of opinion on critical global health controversies. Ambassador Princeton Lyman will affirm the resolution.

Watch the live webcast from Washington D.C. here.

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To view a complete calendar of RTP community events, please visit the Science in the Triangle calendar.

RTP Back 2 School Drive

The Research Triangle Park (RTP) has partnered with Communities In Schools of Durham and Wake counties in an effort to provide backpacks filled with essential school supplies for needy children in the Research Triangle community.

How can the RTP Community help?
Shop for a new backpack and/or the recommended school supplies provided by Communities In Schools, or provide tax-deductible funds either by mail or in person to the Research Triangle Foundation and we will purchase items on your behalf.

RTP and Team Leader volunteers will collect and sort the backpacks and school supplies, and distribute them to low-income students via Communities In Schools of Durham and Wake counties.

Who will benefit?
This year, RTP is working with a kindergarten class in Durham County and an after-school program in Wake County towards the goal of helping a total of 100 low-income children by providing them with new backpacks filled with the tools they need to succeed in school.

Learn more
For questions regarding the RTP Back to School Drive, or to learn more about becoming a Team Leader for your RTP company, please contact James Lim, Director of @rtp Programs.

Other Resources

Important Dates

  • July 14 -- RTP Back to School Drive Kicks Off
  • August 6-8 -- 2010 Tax-free Weekend
  • August 18 -- Back to School Drive Ends


Drop-off Locations (Mon-Fri 9-5)

Please include a completed form with your donation at the following locations:

*Please note that monetary donations will only be accepted at the RTP Headquarters drop-off location

Durham opens new South Regional Library

Durham County cut the ribbon Wed., July 28, to a brand new South Regional Library on S. Alston Ave. The library stands on the historic Old Lowe’s Grove School site, a local landmark for regional education. Celebratory activities included ventriloquists, boxing demonstrations, yoga, Only Burger and ice cream trucks, and historians documenting citizen stories with Durham Co. ties.

The day kicked off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Durham County Commissioners gave a few words of commemoration, from 10-10:30am,outside the front of the building. The Bull City Cowboys made a guest appearance to celebrate the opening of the new facility just prior to the cutting of the ribbon. Afterward, the fun moved indoors where visitors had a chance to check out the new library and sample some of the programming that will be available. DJ Piddypat was on mix patrol, spinning up a stew of African, Latin, and Brazilian beats to get the crowd energized. The crowd--which on average trended young--seemed plenty energized, between sugar-filled refreshments, exciting educational games, and even bouncy neon lily pads to sit and read on.

Meanwhile, back in the private study rooms, local historians sat listening to people share personal memories of the Lowe’s Grove site. Visitors were able to bring up to two photos related to the history of the area, to be scanned into the Durham County Library historic archive. Then, in what was called “Five Minute Memories”, the library recorded local residents giving oral histories of Parkwood, Lowe’s Grove, or RTP. The oral histories will also be cataloged into the archive.

More info is available at the library’s new website.

New RTP speaker series: ‘Marketing Mondays’

The Research Triangle Park and Quarry Integrated Communications are introducing Marketing Mondays, a monthly speaker series focused on helping business people in the Park (and across the Research Triangle region) market their products, services and technologies more effectively. Other Marketing Mondays proud partners include CED (formerly The Council for Entrepreneurial Development), the largest entrepreneurial support organization of its kind in the United States.

TriOut's iPhone app

The inaugural Marketing Monday will be held on Monday, Aug. 9 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. and will feature location-based marketing experts Wayne Sutton and Lawrence Ingraham of  Tri-Out. Location-based marketing is the interaction with customers based on their location, offering value-based opportunities to increase customer loyalty and social sharing.

Alan Quarry

Future speakers will include: Paul Kalbfleisch, Vice President of Brand Creativity at BlackBerry; and Robert F. Lauterborn, author, consultant, and retired professor of advertising from the University of North Carolina. Marketing Mondays will also feature remarks by Alan Quarry, Chairman and CEO of Quarry Integrated Communications.

“Marketing has entered a new era with the emergence of innovative technologies and practices,” says Cara Rousseau, RTP Director of Partnership Initiatives. “Our goal is to help anyone with an interest in engaging with their customers and target communities to re-think and re-search how to successfully build their business in today’s economic and technology climate.”

Marketing Mondays will be hosted at the RTP Headquarters at 12 Davis Drive in The Research Triangle Park. A networking reception will follow each program. Admission is free. However, attendees are asked to RSVP at www.marketingmondays.org, or send an email to marketingmondays@quarry.com.

Wayne Sutton

Hashtag: #mktgmondays

Wayne Sutton’s Blog

Lawrence Ingraham’s Blog

Lawrence Ingraham

NC: World Leader in Biotechnology

Check out this new YouTube video taped at the BIO 2010 conference in Chicago, highlighting NC as a world leader in the biotechnology and life sciences industries. Special kudos to the NC Biotechnology Center for putting together such a quality video!

RTP Week Ahead, July 26-31

Monday, July 26

Health Care in the 21st Century

8:00am (Mon. 7/26) – 5:00pm (Thurs. 7/29)

The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1 Towerview Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Broaden your knowledge and your professional network by joining us for this four day intensive course on current health care issues and trends. Led by distinguished faculty from The Duke MBA Health Sector Management (HSM) program, the course is open to executives and managers from all industries.

To register, go here.

Certified ScrumMaster with Jeff Sutherland – Back in RTP!

9:00am (Mon. 7/26) – 5:00pm (Tues. 7/27)

Four Points Sheraton at South Point, 7807 Leonardo Drive, Durham, NC  27713

n this course, participants will learn how to stop thrashing and start executing along with everything necessary for getting started with Scrum. Following the course, each participant is enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year membership in the Scrum Alliance.

Read more here.

Tuesday, July 27

PEPH Webinar: Community Health Workers – Methods and Models to Improve Environmental Public Health

1:00 – 2:00pm

Online (www.gotowebinar.com)

Open to the public. Find out more at NIEHS’s website.

Super Cool Liquid Nitrogen Show

Shows at 1:30pm AND 3:00pm daily (Tues. 7/27 – Sat. 7/31)

Museum of Life + Science, 33 Murray Avenue, Durham, NC 27704

The liquid nitrogen show is back by popular demand! Come see this exciting, engaging and chilly show to discover what happens to different objects when they get “super cool.” You’ll even get to sample your own liquid nitrogen ice cream!

Free, with museum admission. Reserve tickets at desk day of show. Museum events.

Wednesday, July 28

Grand Opening of South Regional Library

10:00am – 6:00pm

4505 S. Alston Ave at NC Hwy. 54, Durham

The day will begin with a ribbon cutting ceremony, with comments from Durham County Commissioners and other library guests, from 10-10:30am, in front of the building. Visitors will check out the new library, participate in a special gathering of historic stories and photos, and sample some of the programs that will be available at their library.

Local Tech Wire’s Executive Exchange: The “Immersive Internet”

11:30am – 1:30pm

American Tobacco Campus – Bay 7, 324 Blackwell St, Washington Bldg, Durham, 27709

How can you and your business take advantage of opportunities created by virtual worlds, real-time collaboration, and the life-like experience of 3D? Internationally published and recognized expert in all things 3D, Dr. Tony O’Driscoll (Duke professor and fmr. IBM/Nortel exec) will discuss and demonstrate the potential of the Immersive Internet.

Register here.

Acrolinx Executive Forum

12:00 – 3:00pm

RTP Marriott, 301 Residence Inn Blvd., Durham, NC

This event is a complimentary networking luncheon, followed by a discussion surrounding Information Quality strategies and the impact on Machine Translation for companies with global content and products. Co-hosted by SDI.

Headshot Tweetup

7:00 – 10:00pm

MindWorks Multimedia – 807 East Main Street – Durham, NC 27701

Come meet other people who are active in the Triangle social media world that want a new/better profile picture. You hang out and try the awesome FREE BEER from our friends at LoneRider Brewing Company. Professional photographers present.

Free! Full as of now: page.

Thursday, July 29

Seminar: Biomolecular Simulations Using Implicit Solvent Models

1:00 – 2:00pm

NIEHS, Rall Bldg, Rm F193

Speaker: Professor David Case, Rutgers University. Open to the public. More.

IBM Supplier Development, Global Entrepreneur, and SME Toolkit

6:00 – 9:00pm

Brier Creek Country Club

TiE Carolinas monthly networking dinner. IBM program managers panel on supplier development, innovation programs, and small business resources. Details and registration.

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To view a complete calendar of RTP community events, please visit the Science in the Triangle calendar.

Sunlight into gasoline? RTI VP says ‘yes’, future looks bright

A lot goes on at RTI International’s campus in RTP: everything from governmental prototypes of democracy in Iraq to cutting-edge chemical engineering and energy research. Dave Myers, RTI’s vice president of the Engineering and Technology Unit (ETU) said the expansive undertakings of the institution enable new scientific discoveries and progress on a regional, national, and global level.

SITT's Sabine Vollmer (left) and RTI VP Dave Myers

“The goal is to be considered to be among the upper echelon of companies making a difference,” Myers said. For his department’s energy programs, it’s vital to stay on top. The federal government only allots grant money to certain research organizations, and stimulus money has been hard to come by. Some of it won’t surface until as late as 2014, and a lot is still being allocated.

However, the state agreed to match Washington’s funds, even amidst its current budgeting crisis. And with new contributions from the Dept. of Energy, money going towards energy research at RTI has doubled since 2007, Myers said.

So what, exactly, is Myers’ team putting the grant money towards? Lots of different projects, but mainly, solar power. However, he isn’t talking about ordinary sun panels making electricity. Myers said his team is mixing sunlight and water to make gasoline.

These solar panels capture heat-waves from the sun and generate hydrogen, which the ETU can add to water and transform into hydrocarbons. Mix that with carbon-dioxide and you get methanol. (Methanol = CH3OH, the chemical synthesis of CO2 and H2.) The methanol is then converted into liquid gasoline, the same kind our cars run on now.

Except it’s cleaner. This gas has fewer harmful emissions and byproducts than conventional oil-based petroleum burning. There’s also far less sulfur. Not to mention, it’s renewable. What’s key, Myers said, is that engine performance will be exactly the same. It maintains an incredibly high energy density, which is the most compelling aspect of gasoline from an engineering standpoint while battery technology for electric cars is still immature.

Other projects his team is working on includes novel LED lighting designs and the “pMUT” (short for Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer), a biomedical device that delivers real-time 3D ultrasonic images inside the human body. It has already been found highly beneficial for both cardiac and intravascular operations. No such technology has previously been available to surgeons, which is why the medical community is so excited for its introduction. RTP’s own National Institute of Health (NIH) originally funded the project; now, RTI is partnering with Duke to further development.

-Ross Maloney. Reporting by Sabine Vollmer, for Science in the Triangle. Read her “Inside RTP” feature on Myers’ interview here.

The American Underground Opens in Durham

Exciting announcement from American Tobacco yesterday – the American Underground will debut this fall!  Explaining that the campus will have the energy of a start-up campus and all the amenities of a world-class business campus, Jim Goodmon, Rick Weddle and other state and regional economic development leaders announced the anticipated opening of the 26,000 square foot “underground” office facility.

With individual tenant suites, a common break room and even a vintage arcade, the American Underground will strengthen and continue to develop the culture of creativity and innovation that is flourishing in the Research Triangle!

Check out the website -- one lucky entrepreneur even has the chance to win the Underground Overachievers’ Start-up Kit!

Week Ahead, July 12-16

Dino Days! at Museum of Life + Science

Saturday, July 17 – Sunday, July 18

Dino Days! at Museum of Life + Science

Saturday 10:00am–5:00pm, Sunday 12:00pm–5:00pm

Museum of Life + Science, 433 Murray Avenue, Durham, NC 27704

If you dig dinosaurs, come and celebrate Dinosaur Trail’s first anniversary with a weekend full of fossils and fun! Meet local collectors from the North Carolina Fossil Club, talk with paleontology experts, find your own fossils or make fossil casts and meet Buddy from UNC-TV’s Dinosaur Train!

More info.

Monday, July 19

CED Personalized Leadership Development Program

All day through 7/23 (5-day event)

Website.

Seminar: Epigenetic mechanisms underlying estrogen-mediated gene silencing in breast cancer

10:00 – 11:00am

NIEHS, Rall Bldg. Room D350

To gain a better understanding of the role estrogen-regulated ncRNAs play in establishing and maintaining chromatin states of the ER± transcriptome, our lab is developing a novel strand-specific RNA sequencing protocol for the Illumina Genome Analyzer platform.

More information.

Tuesday, July 20

Entrepreneurship Webinar Series: The Business Plan

12:00 – 1:00pm

Online (www.ncimed.com)

Topics: 1. Why Do I Need a Written Plan?,  2. Mission and vision statements, 3. Elements of a Business Plan, 4. SWOT Analysis, 5. Tips for Success

Register here.

TGHC Gender Working Group: “The Policy Environment for Gender and RH/HIV”

5:30 – 7:00pm

Cox multi-purpose room, RTI International, 3040 East Cornwallis Road, RTP

Mary M. Kincaid, Senior Policy Advisor at Futures Group, will provide an update on gender-related policy as it applies to USG programming in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.

Register by end of business day, Friday July 15, here.

Wednesday, July 21

Structure Lab Durham

All day.

RTP HQ, 12 Davis Drive, RTP, NC 27709

A day-long experience in which participants explore how corporate structures and hybrid forms can enable or hinder their efforts. Participants leave with new tools and perspectives with which they can make better choices about financing, governance, growth, market interaction and exits.

Just 40 seats available! Reserve yours now.

Thursday, July 22

Refresh The Triangle July: Focus and Empathy – Two Keys to Designing Great User Experiences

6:30 – 8:00pm

Rotating. July: Railinc, 7001 Weston Parkway, Third Floor, Cary, NC 27513

A community of designers/developers working to refresh the creative, technical & professional culture of new media endeavors in their area through design, technology, usability, and standards. Speaker: Abe Crystal, MoreBetterLabs.com

Pulled from here.

Seminar: Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property

6:45 – 8:45pm

Wake Tech Northern Campus,6600 Louisburg Road Bldg D – Room 310, Raleigh, 27616

Do you have intellectual property or business products you should legally protect? If you have questions or just need an overview of the topics of discussion, this seminar is for you. Lawyers from NC LEAP present.

To register, click here.

Friday, July 23

Communicable Disease Conference: Quality Improvement Through Best Practice

8:00am – 4:15pm

William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, Chapel Hill, NC

Conference participants learn about best practices for communicable disease programs in local public health agencies. Public health professionals and community partners interact with key leaders in communicable disease to discuss hot topics, outbreak response, and new initiatives.

More here.

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To view a complete calendar of RTP community events, please visit the Science in the Triangle calendar.

Week Ahead, July 12-16

Monday, July 12

NC TraCS Responsible Conduct of Research Course

July 12, 8AM – July 16, 12 PM

NC TraCS Institute, MBRB Room 2204

Register here

Seminar: Transcriptional Networks in Embryonic and Trophoblast Stem Cells

10 – 11 AM

NIEHS Rail Building, Room D350

More information

Tuesday, July 13

TBJ Smart Reader Seminar

8:00-9:30 AM

The Royal Banquet and Conference Center – 3801 Hillsborough Street, Suite 109, Raleigh, NC 27607

Free. Register here.

Periodic Tables: Data Driven Parenting – Spilling the statistics of your lives on the web

7:00-9:30 PM

Broad Street Cafe, Durham

Register here.

Thursday, July 15

VC/Business Leader Event

7:30 – 9:30 AM

Events at Newton Square, Raleigh

Register here and click on the “Purchase Tickets” or “Purchase Tables” links.

CFO of the Year Award

11:30 AM – 2:00 PM

North Ridge Country Club, 6612 Falls of the Neuse Road, Raleigh 27615

Register here.