Access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education is becoming increasingly important for success in the global work place. STEM education and development is a necessary element for knowledge-based environments like The Research Triangle Park (RTP). As more and more jobs depend on employees with strong STEM skills, today’s students need a way [...]
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Tesla Roadster BEV electric sportscar 0-60mph in 3.7 seconds. 244 miles per charge. Zero emissions. How ’bout dem apples? Property of John Langston for Duke Energy. Meet The Re-Involt …all 763 mpg of it! More to come as we livetweet the Triangle Electric Plug-in Vehicle Education Forum today at the RTP HQ. 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, [...] Kermit the Frog was wrong. It is easy being green. And it’s popular. Over a hundred people gathered Wednesday in Bay 7, American Tobacco Campus for The Golden Modes: 2010 Annual Triangle Commuter and SmartCommute Challenge Awards. The event, sponsored by GoTriangle.org and The Research Triangle Park, honored regional workers who found [...] Eric Hallman, PhD, and Doug Baker of Kryosphere, Inc. came to the RTP Headquarters Wednesday to give an overview of their company and its success at the June installment of the Innovation@rtp speaker series. Kryosphere is the only independent commercial biorepository in the Southeast. Hallman, the company’s CEO, and Baker, the company’s president, [...] Google announced Tuesday in a special press conference at Johnny T-Shirt in Chapel Hill that in 2009 it generated $780 million for North Carolina businesses, website publishers, and non-profits. In total, the Internet giant generated $54 billion in economic activity across the US last year alone. These figures were unveiled at a series [...] |
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