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India News Digest: Columbia University, GMAT Coming to ...
Date: 3/18/2010 6:12:34 AM
(7 hours ago)
While India opens its doors to foreign education, the world too seems to be taking notice of the opportunity for higher education in the country. The New-York based Columbia University has announced it will set up an international centre for research ...
Stephen Tsang, Columbia University - Keynote Speaker at ...
Date: 3/18/2010 7:52:47 AM
(6 hours ago)
2010-03-18 08:58:13 - Stephen Tsang, Associate Director, Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital will give a Keynote Presentation at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Ocular Disease Drug & Discovery Conference, May 27 ...
World music champion Charlie Gillett dies at 68
Date: 3/18/2010 11:41:51 AM
(2 hours ago)
Born in Morecambe, northwestern England, in 1942, Gillett studied at Cambridge University and at Columbia University in New York, where he wrote an MA thesis on the history of rock 'n' roll. He expanded it into the book "The Sound of the City ...
Charlie Gillett: broadcaster and journalist
Date: 3/18/2010 1:00:35 PM
(59 minutes ago)
He read economics at Cambridge and despite getting only a third took a postgraduate course in the sociology of education at Columbia University, New York. There he wrote a thesis on black music in America and how it had been copied and appropriated ...
Columbia University, GMAT coming to India soon
Date: 3/17/2010 11:03:04 PM
(14 hours ago)
MUMBAI: While India opens its doors to foreign education, the world too seems to be taking notice of the opportunity for higher education in the country. The New-York based Columbia University has announced it will set up an international centre for ...
School Web sites may add advertising
Date: 3/18/2010 2:52:08 AM
(11 hours ago)
This is really tricky stuff for school districts, though," says Richard Colvin, director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University in New York. "They have to be very careful about the image that they're projecting ...
Larry Pinkham, professor, inspired scores of ...
Date: 3/16/2010 8:26:46 PM
(3/16/2010)
At Columbia University in New York City, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and in English-language journalism classes in China and India, Larry Pinkham taught generations of journalists not only how to report and write the news but how their ...
Charlie Gillett obituary
Date: 3/18/2010 8:57:12 AM
(5 hours ago)
They spent the following year in New York, where Charlie studied for his MA at Columbia University. The history of rock'n'roll became the subject of his thesis, long before popular music became an acceptable topic for academic study. Returning to ...
Barnes & Noble Names William Lynch Chief Executive ...
Date: 3/18/2010 11:41:51 AM
(2 hours ago)
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble, Inc ... graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Economics and received his MBA from the Columbia University School of Business. Mr. Lynch said, “I am very excited and energized by ...
NYC prof who reported noose loses suit over firing
Date: 3/18/2010 12:00:20 AM
(13 hours ago)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A black former college professor who reported finding a noose on her New York City office door ... The Columbia University-affiliated college says she copied work from colleagues and students. Constantine denies plagiarizing.
3 histories receive Bancroft Prize
Date: 3/17/2010 8:11:16 PM
(17 hours ago)
NEW YORK -- Biographies of Abigail Adams and Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange are among the winners of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for history. Columbia University announced Wednesday that three authors will each receive $10,000 for the ...
NMT Medical Announces Completion of Eight-Member ...
Date: 3/11/2010 1:23:12 PM
(3/11/2010)
Robert Sommer, MD, Director of the Adult Invasive Congenital Heart Services, Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy, New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. About NMT Medical, Inc. NMT Medical is an ...
Rebates for clunker appliances
Date: 3/18/2010 11:20:22 AM
(2 hours ago)
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York, argued that there were much more economical ways of lowering the amount of energy consumption or carbon dioxide emissions by cars. Phillip F. Schewe reports for Inside ...
Buffett, world's 3rd-richest person, gets pay rise
Date: 3/11/2010 11:38:49 PM
(3/11/2010)
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett laughs as he appears with Microsoft Corporation founder Bill Gates for a town hall style meeting with business students broadcast by financial television network CNBC at Columbia University in New York in this ...
Carol Massar, Bloomberg TV Anchor, to Host The M&A ...
Date: 3/17/2010 4:36:31 PM
(21 hours ago)
Before joining Bloomberg, Massar worked at CNBC, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal Report and she began her broadcast career at the Financial News Network in New York . Massar earned a degree in economics from Barnard University, Columbia ...
Business Books: How Free Markets Sank the Economy
Date: 3/11/2010 4:43:38 PM
(3/11/2010)
Stiglitz, former chief economist at The World Bank and now a professor at Columbia University in New York, focuses on banks' failure to assess and manage risk, especially when risk is disguised by complex financial instruments. Such "modern alchemy ...
At Home With Sheena Iyengar
Date: 3/18/2010 4:46:40 AM
(9 hours ago)
Michael Weschler for The New York Times Dr. Iyengar and her husband, Garud, both professors, at their Upper West Side ... She has built a wardrobe and furnished her sprawling Upper West Side apartment in a postwar building owned by Columbia University ...
How free markets sank the U.S. economy
Date: 3/11/2010 5:19:26 PM
(3/11/2010)
Stiglitz, former chief economist at The World Bank and now a professor at Columbia University in New York, focuses on banks' failure to assess and manage risk, especially when risk is disguised by complex financial instruments. Such "modern alchemy ...
Reyes Gets Encouraging News From Specialists
Date: 3/8/2010 11:56:41 PM
(3/8/2010)
Robert McConnell of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan. “Then they do tests to determine treatment. “It sounds like that’s where they are now, so I expect him to be able to be able to play without any ...
Study Offers Compelling Evidence for a National School ...
Date: 3/17/2010 5:40:57 PM
(20 hours ago)
NEW YORK, March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Educationally ... largely overlooked," Charles Basch, the Richard March Hoe Professor of Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia University , said at a recent panel discussion at the College.