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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Tech Citizenship
Local techs lending a hand
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IBM staffers dig helping out arc
More than 50 IBM Corp. employees got their hands dirty landscaping the Minute Man Arc group home in Littleton. Minute Man Arc, an organization that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, opened its new group home for disabled children in September. In support of the United Way nationwide Day of Caring campaign, the IBM team gathered at the home where yardwork, instead of coding and testing software, was the task at hand. Since moving into its “Mass Lab” at 550 King St. in Littleton last year, the IBM team has become a fixture in the Littleton community, officials said. IBM encourages its employees to get involved in the communities where they work and live. IBM says that its employees have a strong sets of skills that are an asset not only to the company but also to improving the lives of others. Operating in more than 170 countries, the company regularly notifies employees of local volunteer opportunities, ranging from serving as a mentor to installing computers in classrooms.
STAR Analytical lands $100,000 grant from Gates Foundation
STAR Analytical Services of Bedford received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Suzanne Smith, senior investigator, and Joel MacAuslan, co-investigator, titled “Using Acoustic Analysis of Cough to Diagnosis Pneumonia.” Smith’s project is one of 76 grants announced by the Gates Foundation in the third funding round of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help scientists around the world explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. This grant could enable a Nigerian mother without a car to transmit the sound of her child’s cough by cell phone to a hospital 50 miles away, where a doctor checks this vital sign and determines if a nurse in a clinic 15 miles away should make a trip out to the sick child to bring antibiotics.
Grand Challenges Explorations is a five-year, $100 million initiative of the Gates Foundation to promote innovation in global health. The program uses an agile, streamlined grant process — applications are limited to two pages, and preliminary data are not required. MHTSTAR Analytical Services of Bedford received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Suzanne Smith, senior investigator, and Joel MacAuslan, co-investigator, titled “Using Acoustic Analysis of Cough to Diagnosis Pneumonia.” Smith’s project is one of 76 grants announced by the Gates Foundation in the third funding round of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to help scientists around the world explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. This grant could enable a Nigerian mother without a car to transmit the sound of her child’s cough by cell phone to a hospital 50 miles away, where a doctor checks this vital sign and determines if a nurse in a clinic 15 miles away should make a trip out to the sick child to bring antibiotics. Grand Challenges Explorations is a five-year, $100 million initiative of the Gates Foundation to promote innovation in global health. The program uses an agile, streamlined grant process — applications are limited to two pages, and preliminary data are not required.
Seeding Labs, scientists help colleagues in Kenya
Seeding Labs, a Cambridge-based nonprofit that specializes in connecting local scientific institutions with researchers in the developing world, brought together volunteers in October to tag and pack surplus laboratory equipment. The equipment is to be sent overseas to enhance the teaching and research labs at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Students from Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Boston University Medical School, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals employees identified and prepared equipment for shipment abroad. Equipment has been provided by Harvard, Vertex, Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research. The equipment includes machines that are a few years old and no longer useful to the labs in Boston, however it will enable the labs at Kenyatta University to upgrade their experimental capacity by decades.
Raytheon seeks entries for MathMovesU scholarships
Defense giant Raytheon Co. is calling for entries for the MathMovesU Middle School Scholarship and Campership program, which provides $1,000 scholarships to 150 middle-school students nationwide. Applicants must complete the downloadable application available at MathMovesU.com and mail it along with all other required materials to Scholarship Management Services by the postmark deadline date of Jan. 15, 2010. This school year, student awards can be used for either a “campership” applied to tuition and fees at a science, technology, engineering, or math-related (STEM) summer camp or a traditional scholarship applied to future college tuition. Waltham-based Raytheon will continue to donate a $1,000 matching grant to each winning student’s middle school. To apply for the MathMovesU scholarship, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students are asked to create a multimedia or paper submission illustrating the importance of math in the hobby, sport, subject, or activity the student cares about the most.
Proton Energy launches $1M scholarship program
Proton Energy Systems Inc. of Wallingford, Conn., has started a $1 million scholarship program aimed at high school seniors. The Proton Energy Scholarship will recognize and award high school seniors who demonstrate outstanding achievement, excellence and promise in science or technology. The program is funded by Tom Sullivan, owner of Proton Energy and founder of the national chain Lumber Liquidators. The program will award four-year undergraduate scholarships with a total value of up to $100,000 each. Honorable Mentions, Proton Energy Achievers, will be awarded $500 prizes. Applicants will be evaluated on academic performance, strength of application, commitment to further education in a science or technology related field, financial need and leadership, work ethic and community involvement. Deadline for applications is Feb. 10. Winners will be announced on April 15.
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