(Cary, N.C.) MidOcean Partners (”MidOcean”), a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has acquired Global Knowledge, a worldwide leader in IT and business skills training. Based in Cary, NC, Global Knowledge was founded in 1995 and today employs more than 1,300 people worldwide. The company provides training solutions to enterprise and government organizations and delivers courses via its global training centers, private facilities, and the Internet. More than 250,000 students receive instruction annually. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) ENA and SchoolDude.com today announced an alliance to better serve education and increase the use of popular software-as-a-service (SaaS)—also commonly referred to as cloud-based—solutions. SchoolDude joins ENA’s Consortium Partner Program as the first SaaS provider with a suite of solutions to help the superintendent as well as business, technology, facilities, transportation and energy officers. SchoolDude helps these professionals streamline their administrative/support services operations and business processes, while increasing communication, budget relief and accountability to their customers. The partnership is fitting, as ENA is a leading managed K–12 network service provider whose data, voice and video solutions help 9.7 million education and library customers to instruct, learn and operate more effectively. (more…)

(Sanford, N.C.) The faculty and staff at Central Carolina Community College have honored two of their own as the best of the best at the college. Ellen Bland, humanities, communications and theater instructor, is the recipient of the college’s 2011 Excellence in Teaching Award. MontE Christman, associate director of Information Technology, is the 2011 Staff Person of the Year Award. Candidates for the awards are nominated and chosen by their peers at the college. (more…)

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, joined today with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund $20 million for 12 four-year grants on nanoelectronics research. (more…)

(Morrisville, N.C.) Montie Design, an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, is hosting four student interns participating in its first annual Summer of Product Design program. The program offers the student designers rare access to state-of-the-art resources and instruction from industry professionals as they work to develop their ideas into marketable products. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Global Knowledge, worldwide leader in IT and business skills training, will host a free, live webinar entitled “PowerShell: What You Need To Know” at 12 pm ET on Wednesday, July 27, 2011. In the hour-long webinar, Global Knowledge practice lead Craig Brown will provide practical answers to frequently asked Windows PowerShell questions. (more…)

(Winston-Salem, N.C.) Teachers can easily harness the full power of interactive whiteboard technology with the new TeachSmart® 2.0 Learning System by Hatch®. The only interactive whiteboard solution proven by research to improve math and literacy outcomes in early education has been enhanced with powerful content management features that help teachers use educational technology more effectively. TeachSmart 2.0 will be available in August 2011. (more…)

(Durham, N.C.) By shooting a beam of neutrinos through a small slice of the earth under Japan, physicists say they’ve caught the particles changing their stripes in new ways. These observations may one day help explain why the universe is made of matter rather than anti-matter. The T2K experiment has been using the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, or J-PARC, located on the east coast, to shoot a beam of muon neutrinos 185 miles, or 295 kilometers, underground toward the Super-Kamiokande, or Super-K, detector in Kamioka, near Japan’s west coast. The goal of the experiment, which is part of a new generation of neutrino-tracking facilities, is to observe the particles change “flavors” from muon neutrinos to electron neutrinos on this brief journey. (more…)

(Raleigh, N.C.) Reduce the patchwork of state regulations. Build out energy infrastructure. Focus on training workers in the crafts. Better educate consumers on smart grid technology benefits. Those were some of the suggestions energy and smart grid leaders passed on to members of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness yesterday in a roundtable discussion on Centennial Campus at North Carolina State University. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Global Knowledge, worldwide leader in IT and business skills training, will host a free, live webinar entitled “Nexus in Your Data Center: Benefits and Strategies” at 12 pm ET on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. In the hour-long webinar, Global Knowledge instructor Alex Marcotte will explore the benefits of using the Cisco Nexus family of products in your data center. Webinar attendees will learn about the benefits of NX-OS, Overlay Transport Virtualization, virtual PortChannels, and FabricPath. Attendees will also examine the role of Spanning Tree in today’s data center. (more…)

(Charlotte, N.C.) Jackrabbit Technologies, leading provider of web-based solutions for youth activities centers, has debuted a self help website for its customers. Jackrabbit School (www.JackrabbitSchool.com) provides detailed instructions and code snippets that enable customers to quickly and easily do customizations for their online registration feature in the Jackrabbit system. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Global Knowledge, worldwide leader in IT and business skills training, will host a free, live webinar entitled “Are You Ready for Office 365?” at 12 p.m. EST on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. In the hour-long webinar, Brett Hill, Office 365 MVP, will discuss how best to prepare your organization for Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s next-generation cloud services offering. Webinar attendees will learn about cloud services and how using cloud services differs from using on-premise services. They will learn about the components of Microsoft Office 365 and how Office 365 compares to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Attendees will take a look at basic Office 365 setup and administration, and discover some key differences in Office 365 plans. They will gain insight into their organization’s readiness to move to Office 365, and which resources offer the best and most updated information about Office 365. (more…)