UMB student joins Anthurium Solutions

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A University of Massachusetts’s student was hired by the newest establishment, the Anthurium Solutions. John Gray, College of Management, was recently employed by the company as their new web development intern. A growing software company that is situated in the Venture Development Center that has started developing a ground-breaking online matching and workflow platform to provide healthcare.

John Gray, the thirty-second student intern this year to be in a local establishment. These establishments are taking the benefit of work being made by the VDC’s entrepreneur in residence like Dan Phillips, a business adviser with great connections to the local tech group and Anna Tsui who knows some entrepreneurial students.

The students of UMass Boston are under-grad and grad majors in Computer Science, IT, MIS, Bio Tech, Green Energy, Management, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, and many more.

High School team discover color changing roof

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Alan Zube, the Washington County Technical High School teacher instantly considered about the grant when the concept for an energy-efficient, color-changing roof came up in his Civil and Architectural Engineering class last year.

The InvenTeam grant picked out Tech High to be one of the 15 high school teams nationwide to be given a grant for their discovery formally known as “Temperature-sensitive, color-changing roof to combat global warming”. The only team chosen this year to represent Maryland was granted $6,500 for the venture.

Washington County Technical High School students, from left, Deanna Molnar, Amy Syverson, Jakob Scharmer and Ashley Willingham discuss developing a temperature-sensitive, color-changing roof to combat global warming. The school was awarded $6,500 for the project through a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant.

Chosen by his fellow students as a team head, senior Cody Case, 17, is in command of organizing the schedules and deadlines and keeping the team on duty as well as verifying the project blogs and Website are in order or up to date.

They look forward to having four test modules – 4-by-4-foot sheds that serve as a model of the interior of a house. The handy units will have data collectors within. The idea is to begin with a unit with a black shingle roof and one with a white shingle roof.

During winter months, nearly all information gatherings will be finished that will give the team the vital information to limit project options.

Tel Aviv U. student develop self-cleaning coatings

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The means and value of materials happening in nature is  an inspiration to researchers . There was information that researchers from Tel Aviv University have cultivated forests of grass like peptides that are water and dust resistant.

Lihi Adler-Abramovich, a graduate student at TAU with a team that is working in the scope of 100 nanometers, which is about one-billionth of a meter have come up with a new method that will regulate peptide molecules. There is a possibility for the method to transform into self-cleaning coatings intended for windows and solar panels.

It also allows you to make your own composition of short peptides as useful as a supercapacitor.

They mistakenly came across the peptide forest when they were doing a project to look for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

Europe Business School students make video

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Over 300 ESCP Europe business school students joined forces to impart their school’s principles and views by creating a remarkable stop-motion video. It doesn’t require words to achieve it and bring us into their real human world.

Produced in a fun, creative, yet interesting way, the video requires a considerable number of equipments for the take: a suitable musical track, 316 extras, 658 t-shirts, 9m2 of foam board, 4,198 photos taken, and 125 meters of gaffer tape to place 3,654 marks.

The ESCP (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) Europe business school uploaded their viral video online last December 2, 2009 to all the major video sharing platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

Australian students hack iPhones

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Hi-tech mobile phones becoming more like of a personal computer is now turning out to be the target of hacking. They are more susceptible to the usual computer threats and bugs.

Kaspersky Lab, a Russian antivirus company stated that a new malicious program stole money from Nokia phones by making small charge rates from owners’ wireless accounts.

An Australian student produced an experimental worm last month that hopscotched across iPhones. The harmful worm did not affect any damage but security experts say that you can’t set aside the possibility of pernicious attacks on iPhones.

Peter DaSilva for The New York Times: The co-founders of a cellphone security company, Lookout: Kevin Mahaffey, left, James Burgess, center, and John Hering.

A well-known Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Khosla Ventures, invested into a fresh security start-up called Lookout. Based in San Francisco, it was a consulting firm before called Flexilis managed by the fresh graduates of the University of Southern California. Seeking to be the leader in security of the mobile world like what Symantec does in the PC market.

Lookout started to experiment security software for phones and will immediately launch security applications for Blackberry and iPhone. It will protect the phones from malicious programs and will provide the owners the capacity to remotely back up, delete data on their phones and allows them to trace the location of their phones on the Web.

UI student Scott Daigle improves wheelchairs

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Scott Daigle, a University of Illinois first-year graduate student in mechanical engineering thought about how gear shifting is good and essential to motorists and bicyclists. He then thought of the wheelchair users as he watched them drive themselves around the University’s campus.

He noticed that their arms were the only ones they can rely on to go as fast as they could, so he came up into an idea of putting a gear shifting device to the wheelchair. He made a set of design enhancements that arrived in a continuous variable transmission.

University of Illinois mechanical engineering graduate student Scott Daigle shows the first prototype of a wheelchair he is building that features a continuously variable transmission on each wheel designed to maximize a user's shoulder function.

Wheelchairs with gears are already common, but Daigle’s idea is different.  It automatically detects your conditions or situations like if you want to go fast, it will shift into a higher gear, or if you are climbing up a hill, it will shift into a lower gear without the user thinking about it.

Scott, 22, came up with the idea in January, worked on the plan last spring in a technology entrepreneurship, and developed the first model last summer.

He considered the weight, cost and flexibility to refine his innovation with the other wheelchairs. It doesn’t have to be heavy so that it could be a relief for the wheelchair users not to develop shoulder pains. His innovation decreases the amount of strength that a wheelchair user exerts.

Wheelchair designs outside the market require the users to do the shifting while in Daigle’s design, it magically shifts itself for the users. The device detects the ground inclination and pace and knows what gear should be.

Daigle, a self-motivated young man, dreams to start his own company so that he can promote his inventions to the world.

Illinois students build booming businesses

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Started with selling lemonade to gathering leaves and digging snow, these twins have their own series of booming business now.

Ashton Clark and Ryan Clark, both College of Business students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in accountancy, minor in technology and management. They are the ones behind the successful company, “Dynamik Duo”.

Ashton is the President, while Ryan is the Vice President of the Dynamik Duo which is also their investment company for some of their internet projects. They are a strong team that is why they called themselves “Dynamik”.  Both are responsible for running new business possibilities and expanding their current companies.

These two worked and studied hard to maintain good grades and be on top of their class. They sacrifice sleep just to attain it and keep up a successful business and make it through using time management.

Being taught by their mother to save money at a young age, they used it to launch their own companies. Their most effective marketing scheme is not to spend too much when you are just starting in internet marketing. Their best form of advertising is to tell their friends and others about it, in short, “word of mouth”.

MBA students drive projects for Climate Summit

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“Going green” is the focus of the climate summit in Denmark, concentrating on global methods in reducing future greenhouse gases and assure businesses that becoming green will be good in the end.

Proposed projects could lessen energy use by 160 million kilowatt hours a year (fit to power 14,000 homes) and get rid of the 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas secretions annually.

The 2009 class of 26 Climate Corps fellows identified energy efficiency opportunities at 23 companies.

The members are also MBA students even though they have environmental experiences to understand the bottom line.

Seven interns have seen $35million and $120million possible energy effectiveness in the first year of the project. Projects that have 97% possible energy savings have been finished or are being implemented.

An intern at an IT services firm in Philadelphia fixed a problem by putting timers on the lights on one floor of a building. The cost: $ 0. The savings:  $20,000 a year.

Ian Lavery, a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management was dared to dig a lot deeper because EMC has been committed to energy effectiveness for the past 20 years.

Lavery, 29, an Arlington native, gave EMC seven suggestions. However, Lavery’s analysis of how to enhance the cooling system of company’s technology labs was the idea that caught the attention of EMC.

It is an inspiration to see people who are going to run corporate America in the next few years who are so focused on the environment. It really pays to be green.

TSU students give green energy a workout

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It may sound like a forced labor camp, but up close the world’s largest human power plant looks like a lot of fun.

Calories to Kilowatts, a green technology project that those students at Texas State University illustrated by mounting elliptical machines in the recreation center to show that it converts exercise into electricity, supplying it back into the university’s power grid.

Texas State earned the title “world’s largest human power plant” because of its stock of 30 machines.

Clearwater, Fla., -based ReRev., is the only company in the world that builds the technology.

The 30 machines with sensors and other equipment were modified by the Texas State in the amount of $20,000. It transforms kinetic energy produced by exercise into electricity. It can charge a cell phone six times more or power a laptop computer for one hour with one 3o-minute workout.

A sticker on every machine has tips for reducing energy consumption in student’s everyday lives.

It is to instill the idea of sustainability in their minds and not produce enough power to run the university. In seven or eight years, the university could recover the money they spent although it is not essential than the learning factor.

Blair Hart-ley, a graduate student who assisted to develop the project for an independent-study class said that the project will tell students the amount of physical energy it will take to produce a minimal amount of electricity.

The students have already proven that they are sincere about getting green.

Students paid $1 for an environmental fund that sponsors project like a rainwater collection system and a big fertilizer pile that converts cafeteria waste into rich soil.

Calories to Kilowatts was paid half by the fund while the other half was paid by the campus recreation.

NJIT students solving Urban Challenge

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Thirteen students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology are trying their best to find an answer to an urban challenge: Can an inexpensive home avoid ending up like their horrible box-like pioneers?

A student Joan Lui shows her hand made model of a townhouse that she has been working on for Habitat Newark during an architecture class at NJIT in Newark in November.

Part of an alliance with Habitat for Humanity, students were given real-world experience and gives the non-profit with new concepts for its homes.

The students have drawn numerous ideas last September that will be utilized to construct 7 multi-family townhouses on Ridgewood Avenue like a simple project that will restore the city’s building design.

The city builders said that three-level buildings lack design qualities, and it should be replaced by a design that requires organizing it into place than in a Rubik’s Cube, with a topsy- turvy regulations, green aspect, and stretched budgets that must be monitored.

Detailed shot of sketch and a hand-made model that Cara Constantino, NJIT student, has been working on to design townhouses for Habitat Newark during an architecture class.

The working designs still consist of ingenious characteristics in the assigned 1,500 square-feet. There are uncovered courtyards inside, private places amid the house for children’s safety. Others have added environmental features, such as tilted roofs that will catch and store rainwater in a rain garden, and “solar chimneys”, vertical shafts that better aerate apartment buildings.

Alex Merlucci, 21, of Kinnelon , one of the students who describes the mission as noble though it is complicated and challenging, said that their concentration is to build efficient homes with the significance of architecture – “a reason for every designed component”. They are not only trying to give people a shelter, but also a home.