Edmonton, Alberta (ots/PRNewswire) - Isotechnika will host an evening educational symposium at the American Transplant Congress. The evening symposium titled "Unleashing the Power of CNi's" will take place on Saturday, May 5th at 7:30 p.m. at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel. The symposium will highlight the use of ISA247 for the prevention of transplant ...
Lausanne, Switzerland and China (ots) - The Board of Directors of Cognosense appoints Mr. Erick Caron as new Chief Executive Officer & Delegate of the Board of Directors. Mr. Caron also becomes Chairman and CEO of the company subsidiaries Cognosense Tech. Ltd in China and will be elected to Cognosense Board of Directors. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Caron was ...
Waterloo, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - - Young 'Einsteins' Can Attend Summer Science Camps in Canada Budding young physicists, age 16 and 17, can now apply to attend the "International Summer School for Young Physicists" (ISSYP) at Perimeter Institute (PI) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 100 students from across Canada and around the world will be challenged by ...
Hong Kong (ots/PRNewswire) - - Enhances Research and Resource Sharing for Students and Faculties The Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) of Hong Kong is using the high-speed, high-bandwidth power of Metro Ethernet technology from Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) to allow faculty and students of its eight ...
Riverdeep Interactive Learning USA, Inc.
San Francisco, November 29 (ots/PRNewswire) - Riverdeep Interactive Learning USA, Inc. (the "Company") announced today that it has commenced tender offers (the "Offers") to purchase for cash any and all of its outstanding 8.250% Senior Notes due 2011 (CUSIP No. 441560AK5), 9.875% Senior Subordinated Notes due ...
St. Gallen (ots) - His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, today accepted the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Freedom Prize in person. At a formal ceremony at the University of St. Gallen attended by several hundred guests from business and politics as well as students, Prof. Dr. ...
Reading, England, November 6 (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Enhancements Include the Availability of Managed IP PBX Service, Extended European Reach, Local Language Interfaces and Ringtones, and Additional Access Methods Verizon Business has announced the availability of its full VoIP portfolio for the ...
Fachhochschule Graubünden / FH Graubünden
Chur (ots) - St. Moritz, Davos, Arosa - three resounding Swiss tourism destinations. All three towns lie in the canton of Grisons (Graubünden), the capital of which is Chur, home to the University of Applied Sciences Chur HTW Chur, founded in 1963. Approximately 1,400 students may choose from five Swiss federally approved and internationally recognized Bachelor ...
World Federation for Mental Health
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - - Multi-National Survey Highlights Gaps in PCPs Knowledge About Depression and Painful Physical Symptoms Nine of 10 young primary care physicians (PCPs) believe medical school training about depression -- specifically regarding its painful physical symptoms -- needs to be improved, according to findings from a multi-national survey ...
BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology)
Burnaby, British Columbia (ots/PRNewswire) - - Education and Industry Come Together to Develop Better Technologies to Find Landmines The British Columbia Institute of Technology and The Alliance Enterprise Corporation have come together to develop new technologies for the detection of landmines around the world. The United Nations estimates that more ...
Mental Health Research Institute and Monash University of Victoria, Australia
Victoria, Australia (ots/PRNewswire) - A new study published by physicians from the Mental Health Research Institute and Monash University of Victoria, Australia, showed that all atypical antipsychotics studied were equally efficacious when used at optimal doses as primary medication for inpatients with acute ...
Sinaloa, Mexico (ots/PRNewswire) - - Students, Faculty Access Internet Anywhere, Anytime Using Mesh Technology Students and faculty of Mexico's Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa can now access the Internet for e-mail, instant messaging and other Web-based applications virtually anywhere, anytime on its 25-acre campus using an advanced wireless mesh network solution from Nortel(x) (NYSE: NT ; TSX: NT). ...
Natick, Massachusetts and Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Second-Generation Training Center in Brussels to Help Medical Professionals Advance Standard of Patient Care Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) today announced plans for the construction of a new state-of-the art medical training facility in ...
Università della Svizzera italiana
Saturday 13th May 2006 from 10 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. Great Hall (Aula Magna) on the University Campus in Lugano Lugano (ots) - The Università della Svizzera Italiana is 10 years old! The Dies Academicus is an important opportunity to meet up and exchange information about the development of the USI within the context of our region and in its relations with ...
Università della Svizzera italiana
Lugano (ots) - The University of Lugano's Executive Master of Science in Communications Management (MScom) and Copenhagen Business School's Executive Master of Corporate Communications (MCC) announced a co-operation agreement aimed at broadening the international scope of their programs. Under the cooperation ...
Paris, November 2 (ots/PRNewswire) - The European School of Oncology (ESO) presented this year's joint winners of the ACE (Awarding Cancer Enlightenment) Reporter Award 2005 -- Viktoria Kun, Health Correspondent on the Hungarian national daily newspaper Nepszabadsag, and Ioanna Soufleri, Science Editor on the Greek national daily newspaper To Vima -- with euro 5,000 each at an award ceremony held today at the European ...
Rotterdam, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - On Thursday 13 October 2005 Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague will be giving the 11th Mandeville lecture entitled Virtues and Vices versus Legality: The Thorny Road to International Justice at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Mrs Del Ponte ...
Lausanne (ots) - In the Forbes' survey of the Best Business Schools, featured in the September 5 edition of the publication, IMD ranked #2 among 1-year non-US MBA programs. For 2005, the top 1-year, non-US MBA programs as ranked by Forbes were: 1. Insead 2. IMD 3. SDA Bocconi 4. Instituto de Empresa 5. Oxford (Said) The survey ranked schools based on return on investment--meaning compensation ...
Worldwide Communications & Television
Petra, Jordan (ots/PRNewswire) - - World's best minds gather in ancient city of Petra to solve pressing global problems Today is the opening of the inaugural Petra Conference in Jordan hosted by King Abdullah II and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. The world's greatest thinkers -- the Nobel Laureates of Peace, Economics, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, ...
Copenhagen, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - - The New Version 4.0 of NetOp School Now Offers a Powerful Testing Utility, 1-2-3 Wizards, Video Streaming, and Much More Danware, provider of the world's most comprehensive computer-based teaching software, announced today the new NetOp School 4.0 with a scheduled mid May release. NetOp School is a powerful tool ...
Berkeley, California (ots/PRNewswire) - Trinity Learning Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: TTYL) announced today that it has completed an asset purchase agreement with PRIMEDIA Inc. (NYSE: PRM), the leading targeted media company. Trinity Learning, a publicly-held learning company specializing in workplace learning and certification, has acquired certain assets ...
Lilongwe, Malawi (ots/PRNewswire) - The Abbott Fund, Baylor College of Medicine and the Government of Malawi have announced they will partner in the establishment of Malawi's first center dedicated to providing care and treatment for children with HIV/AIDS. Construction of the new clinic on the Kamuzu Central ...
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Leading Business School's Executive MBA Students and Global Alumni Will Benefit The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business will relocate its European campus from Barcelona to London, the top-ranking business school announced today. The move will be effective Summer 2005. Chicago GSB Dean Edward A. Snyder said that after a highly successful decade in Barcelona, the ...
Graduate Management Admission Council
Mclean, Virginia (ots/PRNewswire) - In a precedent-setting decision released on December 27, 2004, the Beijing High Court (the highest court in Beijing, China) has ruled in favor of the Graduate Management Admission Council(R) in the Council's copyright infringement suit against the Beijing New Oriental School (BNOS). The case is one of the first intellectual ...
Lausanne (ots) - IMD, a world leader in executive education, announced on December 1st 2004 that Dr. Matti Alahuhta has been elected Chairman of the IMD Foundation Board, replacing Heini Lippuner, who has served as Chairman elect of IMD's Foundation Board since 1999, Vice Chairman elect since 1996, and member since 1989. Mr. Lippuner, who has served as Director ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - - Independent Catholics and Catholic Organisations State Opposition to Buttiglione's Proposed Appointment as Commissioner for Freedom, Security and Justice More than 140 prominent independent Catholic leaders and organisations submitted a letter last week to European Parliament president Josep Borrell Fontelles in protest against the appointment of Rocco Buttiglione as Commissioner for ...
Lausanne (ots) - IMD has been ranked as one of the world's Top 5 business schools by two of the most prestigious MBA ranking bodies: BusinessWeek and The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). As previously announced the 2004 Wall Street Journal survey of corporate recruiters ranked IMD as the No. 1 international ...
Lausanne (ots) - IMD, one of the world's top business schools, announces that its Zurich Alumni Club and Accenture Zürich, a leading worldwide strategy consultancy, have successfully completed a pro bono consulting project with UNICEF Switzerland (Baumackerstrasse 24, 8050 Zürich), world-renowned supporter of children's causes in the United Nations member ...
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Waterloo, Ontario (ots/PRNewswire) - The Honourable Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada, will officially open the new home of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on Friday, October 1st at 6:30pm. This is where international scientists are gathering to investigate how nature works at the deepest level. Attending the official opening this Friday will be Nobel Prize winners ...
EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
Lausanne (ots) - Switzerland now also has an elite educational program for future executives in the public and private sectors. The Executive Master in e-Governance at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is directed towards the future directors in administration as well as the top elite within ...