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| 27.08.2024 | Общение с точки зрения нейрофизиологии: как мы понимаем и воспроизводим речь и чем эти знания помогут в жизни | Привет! Я Женя, CPO в корпоративном мессенджере Compass. В свободное время люблю покопаться в чем-то новом. Недавно решил поглубже закопаться в нейрофизиологию коммуникации, чтобы понять, как мы воспринимаем речь, как мы ее «создаем» и в ка... |
| 17.06.2024 | Exam Banks to Release a Comprehensive Test Bank for OpenStax’s Intro to Python Programming | Share
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Exam-banks.com, the leading provider of test banks and exam preparation materials, is excited to announce the release of a comprehensive practice test bank designed to support students studying Python programmi... |
| 29.04.2024 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: Every week, I introduce you to three Houston innovators to know recently making headlines with news of innovative technology, investment activity, and more. This week's batch includes a podcast with an angel investment evange... |
| 26.04.2024 | Houston group secures $90M for edtech hub, spaceport enters second phase, and more trending news | Editor's note:Let's roundup the most-read Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles from InnovationMap and its daily newsletter included a Rice University-founded company securing $90 million for a ne... |
| 24.04.2024 | Rice University's edtech company receives $90M to lead NSF research hub | An educational technology company based out of Rice University has received $90 million to create and lead a research and development hub for inclusive learning and education research. It's the largest research award in the history of the u... |
| 24.04.2024 | 2 Houston startups selected by US military for geothermal projects | Two clean energy companies in Houston have been recruited for geothermal projects at U.S. military installations.
Fervo Energy is exploring the potential for a geothermal energy system at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.
Meanwhile, Sage ... |
| 22.11.2023 | Математика: полезные книги | What’s up guys?
Математика - как говорили в школе - царица наук, а ещё очень важный и полезный скилл для программиста.
Неважно, чем вы занимаетесь, если с этой наукой вы хорошо знакомы, вам будет легче. Математика применяется в программиров... |
| 12.06.2023 | Meet the Student, Professors, and OER Champions Advising the 2023 OER Spark Grants Funding Cycle | Over a decade ago, the Michelson 20MM Foundation was launched after our founder, Dr. Gary K. Michelson, read a news article about qualified community college students dropping out due to the cost of textbooks. After providing immediate help... |
| 07.05.2023 | Разбираемся с мифами (ли?) о вреде связи и причём тут зона покрытия | Disclaimer
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Очевидно, что мощные источники ра... |
| 27.09.2022 | Best Selling Organic Chemistry Textbook Goes Open Access After Professor Regains The Copyright | It’s well known that textbook prices are generally high. That’s in part because academic publishers effectively have a monopoly when it comes to standard texts. Very often, these are texts that students simply must have as part of their cou... |
| 24.08.2022 | AAC&U’s Institute on Open Educational Resources to Help Five College Campuses Launch Their OER Adoption Plans | In light of Governor Newsom’s historic $115M investment in Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degrees throughout the California Community College (CCC) system, this Michelson Spark Grant cycle focused in part on supporting capacity building throughou... |
| 11.08.2022 | This Textbook Deal Could Change Education Publishing | The cover of the free, forthcoming Organic Chemistry text from OpenStax. OpenStax |
| 29.11.2021 | 3 Houston suburbs lead sleigh full of cities with biggest holiday budgets | If you live in The Woodlands, Sugar Land, or League City, you may be making a holiday shopping list as long as a stocking and checking it more than twice.
These three Houston suburbs rank among the 10 U.S. cities with the fattest holiday bu... |
| 17.11.2021 | University of Houston scores $1 million from top Texas foundation | One of the most prestigious foundations in Texas has made a generous gift to a local university's fledgling medical department. The M.D. Anderson Foundation has pledged $1 million to the University of Houston College of Medicine, UH announc... |
| 16.11.2021 | Greater Houston Partnership names former BP exec to lead energy transition | Jane Stricker, a longtime Houston-based executive at oil and gas giant BP, has been tapped to lead the Greater Houston Partnership's new initiative designed to boost the Bayou City's profile in the shift toward low-carbon energy.
The partne... |
| 09.11.2021 | Representation in research matters, says this Houston expert | Diversifying your human subjects for studies is essential for good research.
"Up to 75 percent of Pacific Islanders are unable to convert an antiplatelet drug into its active form and therefore are at higher risk for adverse outcomes f... |
| 09.11.2021 | Houston Exponential hires new exec to promote inclusive innovation | Houston's considered one of the most diverse cities in the country, and Houston Exponential is focused on building an innovation ecosystem that's reflective of that.
The nonprofit organization announced a new hire that will lead this initia... |
| 09.11.2021 | Roundup: Houston startups announce new partnerships, crowdfunding campaigns, and more | The Houston innovation ecosystem has been bursting at the seams with news from innovative tech companies and disruptive Houston startups as we fly through the final quarter of 2021.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation... |
| 08.11.2021 | 4 Houston-area businesses rank among Inc.'s best-led companies in the country | Some Houston-area companies now have some major bragging rights — and perhaps, an influx of resumes on the way. Inc. magazine has released its new list of the country's 250 best-led midsize companies, and four Greater-Houston firms are in t... |
| 08.11.2021 | Houston biotech company raises $15M round led by Chinese health care investor | A Houston-based biotech company that was founded by a University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center doctor has closed a fresh round of funding.
Cellenkos closed its $15 million series A round led by BVCF Management, based in Shanghai, China... |
| 05.11.2021 | Hardworking Houston suburb tops list of biggest boomtowns in Texas | The Houston suburb of Conroe has come a long way since Civil War veteran Isaac Conroe planted roots there in October 1881 with the purchase of a tract of land and the establishment of a sawmill.
Fast forward 140 years, and Conroe now reigns... |
| 05.11.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, , and more.
3 Houston innovators to know... |
| 04.11.2021 | Houston expert explains health care's inequity problem | We are currently in the midst of what some have called the "wild west" of AI. Though healthcare is one of the most heavily regulated sectors, the regulation of AI in this space is still in its infancy. The rules are being written ... |
| 04.11.2021 | Nuro scores $600M, Houston e-commerce startup launches ESG tool, and more local innovation news | The Houston innovation ecosystem has been bursting at the seams with news from innovative tech companies and disruptive Houston startups as we fly through the final quarter of 2021.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation... |
| 04.11.2021 | Houston health tech startup closes $10M series B led by Austin investors | A Houston-based tech company that's tackling cognitive health diagnoses with its innovative platform has closed its latest round of funding.
BrainCheck, the cognitive health care platform for physicians, announced the closing of its $10 mil... |
| 02.11.2021 | 3 energy transition companies with Houston ties pitch at international conference | It's all hands on deck for pioneering technology to advance the energy transition and climatetech, and three companies with a Houston presence just took the national stage to showcase their climate change solutions.
The United Nations' 2021... |
| 02.11.2021 | University of Houston: 3 problems with the 'covidization' of science and research | It has been – and for a while, will be – everywhere. The words: COVID-19, coronavirus and pandemic. According to an article by Holly Else in Nature, "coined in April by Madhukar Pai, a tuberculosis researcher at McGill University in Mo... |
| 01.11.2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from health tech to clean energy — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Carolyn Rodz, CEO and... |
| 29.10.2021 | Houston bioprinting startup to be acquired for up to $400M | Houston-based Volumetric Biotechnologies has gone from startup to nine-figure acquisition in a mere three years.
Volumetric, which makes 3D-printed human organs and tissues, agreed October 27 to be purchased by publicly traded 3D Systems, a... |
| 29.10.2021 | MassChallenge's 2021 Houston cohort snags cash prizes in 12th annual showcase | Nine startups that went through the 2021 Houston cohort for MassChallenge Texas have received cash prizes from the global accelerator.
Now in its 12th year, Boston-based MassChallenge awarded 39 equity-free cash and investment prizes to 36 ... |
| 29.10.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a new partnership between The Ion and Ca... |
| 28.10.2021 | New women's health and beauty biz led by Houston entrepreneur emerges from stealth with $35M in funding | A Houston health tech entrepreneur who's started six businesses in his career has announced his latest endeavor.
Dr. Kimon Angelides, founder of Houston health tech startups Livongo Health and Vivante Health, launched FemTec Health, a tech-... |
| 28.10.2021 | Houston expert: Prime times for cyber-attacks and how to stay protected | October is cybersecurity awareness month. The topic might sound overwhelming, and it certainly can be, but there are a few easy ways we can educate and protect ourselves and our loved ones.
Be mindful of timing
Cyber actors target certain t... |
| 28.10.2021 | Houston makes the grade as a top place to live after college, says new report | For many college students, it's tough to imagine life after college when they're cramming for exams and cranking out research papers. Yet the time does come when they'll venture into the "real world" with their degrees.
Before gra... |
| 27.10.2021 | Houston university's MBA program claims coveted top spot of annual ranking | Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business has raked in yet another top spot on an annual list of top MBA programs.
A new ranking from Poets & Quants, which covers news about business schools, puts Rice at No. 3 among the world... |
| 27.10.2021 | Houston entrepreneur amps up support for diverse businesses with new NAACP partnership | Carolyn Rodz didn't feel the need to rush into Hello Alice's series B raise. The company, which was co-founded by Rodz and Elizabeth Gore in 2017, closed its series B at $21 million this summer, but Rodz says they did so with a specific goa... |
| 26.10.2021 | Greentown Labs hires former Houston sustainability exec | The country's largest climatetech startup incubator has made a strategic new hire.
Lara Cottingham is the new chief of staff for Greentown Labs, a Boston-area company that opened in Houston earlier this year. Cottingham previously served as... |
| 26.10.2021 | Renewables are Houston's next chapter, says this expert | Houston has long been known as an innovative city — from medicine to technology to creative cuisines (see Viet-Cajun). I am always proud to see how cultures, education, and change come together to build the fabric of our city. As we look fo... |
| 25.10.2021 | Hardworking Houston clocks in as top-10 U.S. labor market, report says | Houston is proving its worth as a robust employment center.
A new report from Dallas-based ThinkWhy, a producer of talent intelligence software, ranks the Bayou City No. 8 overall in the top-performing labor markets in the country.
The Grea... |
| 25.10.2021 | Texas-based startup investor and mentorship network announces new Houston HQ | A company that supports entrepreneurship and startups across the Lone Star State with mentorship and funding has announced its new homebase in Houston.
Capital Factory has revealed a new programming partnership with The Ion. Through the col... |
| 21.10.2021 | Houston entrepreneur launches $100M SPAC, plans to target sports tech | A new SPAC — a special purpose acquisition company — has officially started trading this week, targeting $100 million in investment and looking for an innovative sports tech company to back.
SportsMap Tech Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SMAPU) ... |
| 20.10.2021 | Rice rises to top of new ranking of Texas colleges and universities | If Texas had one Ivy League school, it would have to be Rice University.
Time after time, the Houston school ranks as the best college or university in Texas and one of the best in the country. Personal finance website WalletHub just added ... |
| 20.10.2021 | Report: Texas is home to a not-so happy workforce | Call it the Bayou City Blues. A report from job website Lensa ranks Houston third among the U.S. cities with the unhappiest workers.
The report looks at four factors — vacation days taken, hours worked per week, average pay, and overall hap... |
| 20.10.2021 | With $150M in VC raise, this Houston company is re-envisioning the future of e-commerce operations | If you're operating a business that sells a product online, you have several options for software to support your efforts and needs as a merchant. However, as one group of Houston entrepreneurs realized, there wasn't a streamlined, one-stop... |
| 19.10.2021 | 2 Houston startups announce new execs to their leadership | A pair of Houston tech startups have recently announced new appointments to their leadership staff. An e-commerce company has a new chief people officer and a blockchain company named a new president to lead commercialization.
Meet Cart.com... |
| 19.10.2021 | Houston expert shares how developing drone technology can make an impact across industries | The state of Texas, as well as the rest of the nation, has been intensely impacted by the effects of climate change as well as aging utility infrastructure. Innovative drone technologies help address the pressing inspection and mapping need... |
| 18.10.2021 | Interactive Houston innovation event pivots to virtual platform for engaging discussions | In 2019, Houston innovators went head to head for the first Houston Digital Fight Club. While COVID-19 postponed a repeat match-up, the organizers have teamed up to put on a virtual event like none other.
Dallas-based Digital Fight Club, wh... |
| 18.10.2021 | Now hiring: Houston companies are looking to fill thousands of tech positions, according to a new report | Houston isn't stereotypically viewed as a tech hub like Silicon Valley or Austin. Yet the Houston metro area's tech employment base continues to grow at an impressive hub-type pace.
According to CompTIA, a trade group for the IT industry, e... |
| 15.10.2021 | University of Houston engineer's research hopes to help detect cancer cells faster and easier | Early stage cancer is hard to detect, mostly because traditional diagnostic imaging cannot detect tumors smaller than a certain size. One Houston innovator is looking to change that.
Wei-Chuan Shih, professor of electrical and computer engi... |
| 15.10.2021 | High-tech art exhibit pops up alongside Houston innovation hub | A traveling art immersion experience has officially opened its doors in Houston. The tech-enabled show picked a particularly innovative spot, too.
The new "Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit Houston," opened Thursday, October 14, at Light... |
| 15.10.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included new innovators to know, a roundup of what startups raised fu... |
| 14.10.2021 | 2 Houstonians launch app that's the 'Uber for home services' | Houstonians who need help with everyday life projects are now in luck. A locally based app is here to help check items off that to-do — or honey-do — list.
Cleverly dubbed TaskNow, the new app provides on-demand home services via a mobile p... |
| 14.10.2021 | Delve into Deloitte's eye-opening new global blockchain survey | Digital assets are disrupting the entire financial market, and every organization and industry that is a customer of the financial services industry (FSI). Financial instruments, from money to stocks, and the infrastructure for any type of ... |
| 14.10.2021 | Rice University edtech startup adds new partners | Rice University's educational technology initiative has added nine technology partners that will supply everything from business simulation software to test preparation tools.
The initiative's OpenStax Ally program enhances OpenStax textboo... |
| 14.10.2021 | Houston research: Customer loyalty programs are effective — but not in the way you might think | Almost everyone who has shopped at a supermarket or hopped on a plane has been invited to join a customer loyalty club. But even the businesses that offer these programs are sometimes unsure of who uses and benefits from them most.
Rice Bus... |
| 13.10.2021 | How this Houston innovator created a whole new type of business to revolutionize the workplace for new moms | Abbey Donnell always thought she'd run her own business one day. But did she think she'd start a business that builds out and runs lactation suites as an employee amenity within office buildings? No, she can't say that she did.
However, tha... |
| 13.10.2021 | Houston university named among best schools in U.S. for Hispanic students | Hardly surprising in the most diverse city in the nation, a local college is among the tops in serving the educational needs for Hispanic students.
The University of Houston has been ranked among the top 100 Hispanic-Serving Institutions in... |
| 12.10.2021 | Houston expert: Now is the time to support BIPOC-owned small businesses | It's clear that the pandemic continues to negatively impact many businesses, and chief among them small, minority-owned businesses. In fact, a study from late last year revealed that minority-owned organizations have been hit disproportiona... |
| 12.10.2021 | Houston tech company names 5 startups to its new venture studio | A Houston-based technology consultancy with a portfolio of Fortune 500 clients has announced the five companies it will be supporting in its new startup studio.
Softeq Development Corporation announced its inaugural cohort for the Softeq Ve... |
| 11.10.2021 | Houston-based edtech company makes international acquisition following strategic investments | A Houston company that provides school safety software to schools across the country has made a strategic acquisition.
Raptor Technologies announced last week that it has acquired United Kingdom-based CPOMS, which provides student safeguard... |
| 08.10.2021 | VC roundup: Here's what Houston startups raised funds last quarter | October means several things — postseason baseball, pumpkins everywhere, and the last quarter of the year.
Before Q4 firmly takes its hold, let's talk about the 10 Houston companies that raised over $526 million between July and September, ... |
| 08.10.2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included new innovators to know, events you can't miss this month, a ... |
| 08.10.2021 | Richard Kinder and 10 other Houston billionaires cash in on Forbes list of richest Americans | Never one to overtly draw attention to himself, Houston pipeline magnate — and Memorial Park benefactor — Richard Kinder has landed on a coveted list, as have 10 other Houstonians.
Forbes has released the Forbes 400 list of richest American... |
| 07.10.2021 | Houston startups raise funds, enter into new partnerships, and more local innovation news | Houston startups across industries have been moving and shaking these past few weeks, and there's a chance you may have missed some of these Houston innovation stories.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, two Houston... |
| 07.10.2021 | Houston expert: Recognizing the warning signs of employee turnover | Although managing employee turnover is one critical element of operating a successful business, the "Great Resignation" has created mayhem in the workplace, as employers struggle with a staggering number of employee resignations a... |
| 07.10.2021 | Report: Here's how Houston ranks among the country's greenest cities | Houston may be the energy capital of the world, but it apparently isn't the capital of "greenness."
The Bayou City lands at No. 93 among the 100 largest U.S. cities in a new WalletHub ranking of the country's greenest places. Hous... |
| 06.10.2021 | The Ion Houston serves up new tenant for its Midtown innovation hub | Rice University's new innovation district will include a place to kick back and have a beer. The Ion announced that it has added Second Draught to its roster of bars and restaurants.
Slated to open early next year, Second Draught will featu... |
| 06.10.2021 | Innovative travel adviser talks Houston tech and advice for female founders | When the pandemic hit, it's safe to say that everyone in the travel industry panicked. Sarah Groen, who founded her company Bell and Bly Travel in 2017, caters her expertise to planning luxury travel experiences, and she didn't want her cli... |
| 05.10.2021 | The simplest way for Houston sports fans to buy the best tickets | One of the best things about going to an Astros or Texans game is cheering on your team live and in person, but one of the worst has got to be the ticket fees.
Most ticket sites surprise you at check-out by tacking on fees of 30 percent or ... |
| 05.10.2021 | Houston expert: How to navigate the innovation journey — from PoC to MVP | As a technologist, one thing I learned early in my career about the technology landscape is its constant improvements and I understood that companies who kept up with those changes remain successful and competitive. However, only companies ... |
| 05.10.2021 | Nonprofit awards 10 Houston companies over $30,000 in grant funding | A national nonprofit has granted $100,000 in funding to 31 companies across the state. Ten of the recipients are based in Houston.
Founders First CDC — an organization that supports diverse founder-led, revenue-generating businesses — named... |
| 04.10.2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from energy to health tech — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Amy Chronis, Houston managi... |
| 04.10.2021 | Houston park accepts $10M donation for innovative ecological project | As Houstonians have been witnessing for the past few years, Memorial Park is in the midst of a renaissance, with a game-changing land bridge in the works, the recently opened Eastern Glades, and more than $200 million in improvements slated... |
| 04.10.2021 | Fresh off $7.5M funding, this new-to-Houston tech company plans to grow and expand in life science space | Founded in 2012 in New Orleans, a tech company that provides software and hardware solutions for the chemicals industry has entered its next phase of growth by moving its headquarters to Houston following a $7.5 million venture capital rais... |
| 29.07.2021 | A Spotlight on Our Open Educational Resources Spark Grantees | Over a decade ago the Michelson 20MM Foundation got its start in the battle around textbook affordability. At that time our founder Dr. Gary K. Michelson learned from a group of professors at Santa Ana College, a two-year public institution... |
| 20.10.2020 | Michelson 20MM Foundation Sponsors Open Education Conference 2020 | Nearly ten years ago the Michelson 20MM Foundation was founded to tackle the broken publisher model. Textbooks prices were soaring and our education system was at an inflection point when it came to the high cost of instructional materials.... |
| 30.09.2020 | Professors, Help Your Students Succeed By Adopting No Cost, Open Textbooks | By Dr. Christopher Nellum and Ryan Erickson-Kulas
Higher education is undergoing a sudden and dramatic shift as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This spring, schools shut down in-person classes and moved to a virtual learning environme... |
| 16.07.2020 | Now is the Perfect Time to Bring OER into Online Education
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The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) is designing the future of education. The nonprofit is on a mission to improve learning and collaboration in the education sector throug... |
| 21.04.2020 | In a Time of Crisis, Students Need Open Educational Resources More Than Ever | Photo credit: OpenStax.org
In a Time of Crisis, Students Need Open Educational Resources More Than Ever
The education sector has transformed dramatically over the last month as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. UNESCO estimates that over h... |
| 20.03.2020 | Online Learning Providers Offer Hope To New Homeschoolers | Online education specialists are making resources and support available for free to help families ... [+] who are now homeschooling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic (Pic: Getty)Getty |
