( EMAILWIRE.COM , November 20, 2009 ) Boca Raton, FL --- In light of the current economy, most institutions are having a difficult time fund raising. Whether it be religious institutions, charities or universities, the money is not coming in as easily as it used to. In this segment of 21st Century Business, Dennis Tubbergen, CEO of GTBK Marketing and CEO of USA Charitable Concepts LLC is here to discuss...
Storing Renewable Energy in Boxes of Air Storage is needed to harvest the full yield available from intermittent sources of energy like wind and solar. One of the options is compressed-air storage; till now only possible in underground caverns. But SustainX Energy Solutions; a Dartmouth College start-up that got $4 million in [...]
Michelle Hernandez is a former assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College. In her book, A is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges, she describes in intimate detail the algorithm used...
I have often been asked why it is that so many businessmen who run small and medium size companies are skeptical about the growth of government's role in our society. I think that the question is a pretty easy one; the answer breaks down into two parts: Firstly, business people at this level actually deal with government regulators on a regular basis. Do you? Most people that I speak to, and this...
Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis, right, sits with Sen. Olympia Snowe at a confirmation hearing. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis, a Sacramento real-estate developer and philanthropist, is expected to be confirmed as ambassador to Hungary. Her confirmation is opposed locally by a former Natomas school board member. WASHINGTON – Sacramento real estate developer and philanthropist Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis...
WASHINGTON -- Winning strong backing from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sacramento real estate developer and philanthropist Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis promised today to focus on economic and energy issues if she's confirmed as President Barack Obama's ambassador to the Republic of Hungary. As confirmation hearings go on Capitol Hill, this one was a lovefest. While the committee did not...
This is the third quarter 2009 edition of our hedge fund portfolio tracking series. If you're unfamiliar with tracking hedge fund movements or SEC filings, check out our series preface on hedge fund 13F filings . The third hedge fund we're covering is Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital. The hedge fund, named after a historical lone pine tree at Mandel's alma mater Dartmouth College, has an assets...
A Dartmouth College economics professor is being honored by two national organizations. Andrew Samwick, who also is director of Dartmouth's Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, has been selected as the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
A press release from USAhockey.com : Miami University Retains No. 1 Ranking in USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Miami University retains the No. 1 ranking in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll for the seventh consecutive poll. The RedHawks, who improved to 8-1-3 on the season, collected 507 points and 31 of 34 first-place...
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The Kenneth and Harle Montomery Endowment at Dartmouth College presents Montgomery Fellow Jules Feiffer in a presentation dated July 15, 2009. This runs an hour and 18 minutes.
SustainX, spun out of Dartmouth College, is developing an energy storage system that uses compressed air stored in portable containers, rather than underground formations.
By Thomas J. Morgan On the local front: A year ago today: Little Compton police identify the woman whose body was found in Sakonnet Harbor as Bobbi R. MacCraken, 54, of New Bedford. The police said they received a report of a partially submerged 2005 Saturn Vue at the end of the boat ramp next to the breakwater. Firefighters pulled the body from the water. MacCracken was pronounced dead. An autopsy...
Conference: The Mechanisms of Self-Control: Lessons from Addiction May 13-14 2010, University of Oxford Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; should it nevertheless be properly...
Dartmouth College Associate Professor of Geography Susanne Freidberg recently won the prestigious Berkshire Conference Article Prize for 2008, awarded by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, for her article The Triumph of the Egg .
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