Christopher "Kit" Jacobson '03 was recently appointed assistant organist and assistant director of music at Washington National Cathedral, a "majestic center of worship at the nation's capital" that welcomes more than 700,000 worshipers and visitors per year.
A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The effects on living things include earlier
Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, those regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, not even light can escape. The
Stowers Institute researchers Karen Staehling-Hampton, Ph.D., Managing Director of Molecular Biology, and Olivier Pourquié, Ph.D., Investigator, collaborated with colleagues from around the world to show that genes known to cause spinal mutations in chick and mouse model systems also play
By targeting a common virus, doctors may be able to extend the lives of patients diagnosed with the most prevalent and deadly type of brain tumor, according to a study led by researchers in Duke's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor
Over the past 18 years, the MIT $100k Business plan competition has given birth to over 85 companies that amount to over $10 billion in market cap and produce an aggregate exit value of $2.5 billion! It's no wonder that
Covalent Solar may hold the key to increasing efficiency and cost effectiveness of solar energy. They just won the $20,000 MIT Student Team Award at the MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize as well as another $10,000 the following day in
Here are some awesome pictures, courtesy of the Horn Group:This is Thatcher Bell, a Principal at DFJ Gotham. He was the event's MC.This is Chris Thomas of Widetronix, which was this year's winning team. Walking away with the $250K... To
Recent observations of coronal-loop waves by TRACE and within the corona as a whole by CoMP clearly indicate that the dominant oscillation period is 5 minutes, thus implicating the solar p modes as a possible source.
Calnet, founded by award winning entrepreneur Erik Fjellborg in 2005, has just recently been selected to deploy their employee management software in all 1192 McDonald's restaurants in the UK. The software provides a solution to a problem discovered at McDonalds
Widetronix is up on stage right now. The company has developed a pace maker battery that only has to be replaced once in a lifetime, compared to competing batteries that require three replacements at an average cost of $43,000. The
This morning eleven teams presented from the top universities on the east coast. Each team previously placed first or runner-up at competitions at their respective schools. A previous placement was actually a pre-requisite for application, after which the applicants were
Well, we've come to the moment you've all been waiting for. DFJ representatives are all lined up on the stage ready to announce this year's winner.THE GRAND FINALE:2008 DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge Winner: WIDETRONIX (CORNELL)All of the teams were
