Arizona is joining a coalition of 20 states, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the American Association of Community Colleges – with support from Lumina Foundation and the Siemens Foundation – to launch the Reskilling and Recovery Network.
Moderated by Phoenix Business RadioX, Dr. Rita Cheng of Northern Arizona University, Dr. Michael Crow of Arizona State University and Dr. Robert Robbins of The University of Arizona discussed how COVID-19 has shifted higher education, how each university is working to bring about innovation-based economic development to the state, the relationship between the tech community and the university system, as well as the challenges and opportunities are on the horizon.
iTether partners with Pinal County to launch study, State Farm donates $30M to ASU to fuel workforce development program, Grand Canyon University opens incubator with free rent for startups, Scottsdale-based software provider Parchment merges with Credentials Solutions, TGen and Mayo Clinic researchers awarded a federal grant to refine liquid biopsy for cancer patients, and more.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has been hotly debated since former President Barack Obama created the program in June 2012 after Congress failed to pass the DREAM Act, which would have cleared the way to citizenship for certain immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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When Apple made plans to convert an empty Mesa building into its $2 billion Arizona Data & Global Command Center, the technology giant knew it wanted the building to run on 100 percent renewable energy just like the rest of its facilities.
CIRQ+, a disruptive IoT technology, took top honors as Best New Hotel Product and Best of Show during the 2018 Editor’s Choice Awards at the Hotel Experience (HX) at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Versum Materials Announces Grand Opening of R&D Facility Versum Materials, a leading semiconductor materials supplier, has marked the grand opening of its new research and development facility at its semiconductor materials manufacturing site in Hometown, Penn. The company’s corporate offices and materials headquarters are in Tempe. The state-of-the-art R&D laboratory will synthesize and purify new […]
Chandler-based PacSci EMC successfully has used its Modular Architecture Propulsion System (MAPS) technology to fire a series of solid rocket motors to both point and change the orbital velocity of PACSCISAT, its on-orbit technology demonstrator satellite. MAPS is a scalable array of high performance, sealed, solid propellant rocket motors that offer propulsion capability for CubeSats, […]
You went into business because you wanted to make a difference in the world – you wanted more freedom, more meaning and more money yet you now find yourself working harder than ever, feeling trapped and not seeing the kind of results you’d like to in your bank account. It’s frustrating because you know you […]