Astronomer Geoff Marcy, Earth’s Premier Planet Hunter, Wins Carl Sagan Prize
STANFORD and BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 22, 2009 — Geoff Marcy, Earth’s foremost discoverer of planets outside our solar system, has won the 2009 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. The award recognizes Marcy’s “exceptional contributions to the public understandin…
New Forbes College Ranking Mimics Findings from StateUniversity.com
FLOSSMOOR, Ill., Aug. 13, 2009 — Forbes magazine’s recent America’s Best Colleges report shares many similarities with the StateUniversity.com college rankings, which were released in February of this year at http://www.stateuniversity.com/rank/score_rank.html. Nine of…
Is Financial Infidelity a Threat to Your Marriage? Psychiatrist Says It Can Be More Devastating Than an Affair
CLEARWATER, Fla., July 2, 2009 — Cheating with money occurs in 1 out of 3 marriages. Some couples say it is even more devastating than sexual infidelity. In addition to the loss of trust, one spouse has spent what the couple had worked together to save for the future. Financial infidelity is the worst…
click2try(TM) Adds Sakai CLE to Open Source Catalog
Enables educators and administrators to easily evaluate and use world-class learning environment
HOUSTON, June 9, 2009 — click2try (http://www.click2try.com), a community site that makes it easy to try and use Open Source software, today announced it has added Sakai CLE to its online catalog…
Scitopia.org Adds Alerting to Its Suite of Features
PISCATAWAY, N.J., March 10, 2009 — Scitopia.org, the free, federated search portal created by leading science and engineering societies, has enhanced the site’s utility and convenience with a powerful alerting service. The service makes it simple for researchers to stay up-to-date on…