Posts tagged “Duke”
‘Neuromarketing’: Brain scans to help design, sell products?
UniversityTech: Duke, Emory professors say MRIs, other tools could lead to new means of testing products’ potential appeal.
Can brain scans help marketing?
Job hunting? CFOs foresee ‘virtually jobless recovery in 2010’
New survey from Duke and CFO Magazine says “employment bleeding has stopped,” but companies don’t plan to hire many workers and are fretting about continued tight credit markets. The CFOs do expect better business spending and earnings. They also plan to outsource more jobs.
U.S. CFO outlook improves
What’s better: Saving the world or building another Facebook app?
Opinion: What if we challenged students, entrepreneurs and investors to build businesses that do good for the planet and make a healthy profit doing so? Today, the world faces more problems than perhaps at any point in recent history. Yet we have the greatest minds and the deepest pool of investment capital in the world focused on building Facebook and Twitter apps.
Duke lab tracks biochemicals behind rare disorders
Duke University Medical Center has one of the few biochemical genetic labs to test for rare disorders, and physicians said they hope to develop a test that would work in newborn screening.
Finance exec leading new program at Fuqua tackles ‘stale’ education
In an interview with Private Equity Hub, a former Cerberus Capital Management director says he wants to apply his lessons learned on Street in his new role at Duke.
Now hear this – Neurons found that enable songbirds to learn songs
UniversityTech: Discovery by Duke scientists could lead to help for people who have suffered damaged to auditory nerves and must learn to speak without hearing their own voices.
Duke researchers create next-generation lens from ‘metamaterials’
UniversityTech: Researchers say a single metamaterial lens could replace traditional optical systems requiring vast arrays of lenses and provide clearer images. They could also be used in large-scale systems such as radar arrays to better direct beams, a task not possible for traditional lenses, which would need to be too large to be practical.
Metamaterial lens.
Duke scientists to receive up to $43 million for gene-based radiation test
Researchers have already identified a set of genes in the blood that react to radiation exposure.
Hollywood vs. real life: Duke scientist developed Pompe disease drug
In the new movie ‘Extraordinary Measures,’ Harrison Ford plays lead role in drug discovery. In reality, Duke’s Y.T. Chen led way to find means of combating killer hereditary disease.
Out of work? New Duke-CFO survey offers little hope for job seekers
“The economic recovery is shaping up to be a jobless one,” writes CFO Magazine editor. “While CFOs say they will increase capital expenditures and technology spending … they note that employment at both U.S. and European companies will continue to decline.”
Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst ‘on the bleeding edge’ of change with 'cred'
Executive Q&A: ‘We are a 21st century company living in a 20th century world,’ says the CEO of the world’s top Linux software firm. In the open source world, ‘We can’t lead by mandate. We can’t lead by fiat. We have to lead through our own personal ability to influence and influence comes from credibility, people will talk about here about having deep cred, but it’s having credibility, it’s about establishing a reputation that we are doing the right thing and that’s via our words and via our actions and something that builds up over time.’
Pentagon-funded study at Duke tries to detect flu before the first sneeze
Coughed on by somebody with the flu? Duke University researchers are developing a test to determine - with a mere drop of blood - who will get sick before the sniffling and fever set in. And they're turning to hundreds of dorm-dwelling freshmen this fall to see if it works.
Two Duke scientists receive NIH research awards worth $4 million
One researcher will use $2.5 million in funding to focus on stem cell growth and cancer formation. The other plans to focus on gene mutation linked to cystic fibrosis with $1.5 million in funding.
