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• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Launches Collaborative Effort to Improve College Graduation Rates

  
  Philanthropy Front and Center-Cleveland — Authority: 420
  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced  (November 5, 2009) $4 million in grants to the National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education and Families , and seven cities to boost college graduation rates by better coordinating the services that colleges, schools and communities provide to students. ...
  3 days ago

• Elias Zerhouni Talks Public Health Challenges, Culture Wars at WBBA Annual Meeting

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biotech , Life Sciences , healthcare Gregory T. Huang wrote: Just came back from the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association’s annual meeting in downtown Seattle, where 500-plus biotechies and distinguished guests (including more than a few local politicians) gathered for a ...
  4 days ago

• Mesa Receives Grant to Improve College Graduation Rates

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 438
  Mesa Community College, City of Mesa and Mesa Public Schools linking services to improve college graduation ratesMesa, AZ - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National League of Cities... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
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• Grant to Improve College Graduation Rates in Phoenix

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 438
  The City of Phoenix and Maricopa Community Colleges Receive Grant to Improve College Graduation RatesPhoenix, AZ – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National League of Cities... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you http://www.evliving.com/
  5 days ago

• Dendreon Files FDA Application, DxBox Reaches Turning Point, ISB to Do 100 Genomes, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Roundup , Biotech , cancer Luke Timmerman wrote: The local life sciences scene was pretty quiet this week, although we heard more than usual from medical device companies. —Paul Yager, the University of Washington’s chair of bioengineering, offered a detailed status update on a tool called the DxBox ...
  5 days ago

• UW Scientists, Backed by Gates Foundation, Enter “Put Up or Shut Up” Phase with Portable Diagnostic

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biotech , Diagnostics , Global Health Luke Timmerman wrote: When somebody gets a fever in a poor country, there is no quick or easy way to tell whether it’s a symptom of flu, malaria, a bacterial invader, or some other bug. And if you don’t what it is, then it’s hard to treat. So it’s only ...
  1 week ago

• Please Help the Cause: It’s for the Kids

  
  Leveraging Ideas — Authority: 449
  Usually I steer clear of posting personal things on this blog, but I wanted to ask for support in helping a great cause. My youngest sister is part of Teach for America . She’s spent the last year and a half in an extremely impoverished and isolated area of New Mexico, working on a Navajo Indian Reservation as a ...
  1 week ago

• Hechinger announces new nonprofit to cover education

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 733
  Looks like someone at Columbia agrees with their colleague Michael Schudson ’s argument that universities should get more involved in creating original journalism. The Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media — which is attached to Columbia’s Teachers College — is announcing today the beginning of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fund 76 Research Projects – Healthcare

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 515
  In the US, the Foundation focuses on education.  I can’t remember how many times I have posted videos of Mr. Gates in front of Congress asking for a call to arms for education of US citizens, and we still lack and are far behind.  In July, Bill Gates spoke in India stating the US got off to a bad start with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Gates Gives $100,000 To Fight Malaria With Gum And Chocolate

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 759
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $100,000 to a group that’s fighting Malaria. The procedure used, providing gum and chocolate to patients may seem a little strange, but it’s also a simple and cheap means to fighting the disease. Under the program children are given gum to painlessly determine ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy [Charity]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 462
  Bill Gates is on another charitable streak through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a $100,000 investment to find a way to fight childhood malaria with chocolate and gum. The gum would be used to test, painlessly, for malaria in children while the chocolate would serve as a way of getting some of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bill Gates Seeks To Cure Malaria With Candy [Charity]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 897
  Bill Gates is on another charitable streak through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with a $100,000 investment to find a way to fight childhood malaria with chocolate and gum. The gum would be used to test, painlessly, for malaria in children while the chocolate would serve as a way of getting some of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Philanthropic Corporatism

  
  StickWithANose — Authority: 127
  One of the scariest phenomena that I’ve encountered in my research on education policy and public discourse has been the emergence of Education Philanthropy . While it may sound like a rather inocuous subject, it is a prime example of corporate politics in action. Beneath the banner of education reform and closing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gates Foundation Proposal: Linchpin to National Broadband Strategy?

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 801
  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last week sent analysis data to the FCC that put the cost of installing fiber networks in 80 percent of the anchor institutions (hospitals, medical facilities, schools) in the U.S. at $5 billion–$10 billion. But while the FCC quickly issued a public request for comment ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gates Foundation CFO to step down next year

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  The chief financial officers of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says hes leaving that post early next year to pursue other interests.
  4 weeks ago

• Access to Learning Award 2010

  
  Welcome to Library.ie — Authority: 126
  Given each year by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative, the Access to Learning Award recognizes the innovative efforts of public libraries or similar organizations outside the United States to connect people to information through free access to computers and the Internet. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation by NBBJ Architects

  
  dsgnWrld — Authority: 142
  After a decade spent operating out of a pair of nondescript offices in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the world’s largest charity organization, is building a proper headquarters. The campus will feature two light-filled V-shaped buildings symbolizing the ...
  4 weeks ago

• AIDS: DISCOVERED 2 NEW ANTIBODIES. VACCINE IS NEAREST

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 149
  Researchers have discovered 2 new human antibodies that neutralize the virus that causes AIDS. The finding points to a promising new target for vaccine development. Most vaccines work by triggering the immune system to produce antibodies that help beat back infections. But this strategy hasn’t been ...
  8 weeks ago

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