(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…)

(Winston-Salem, N.C.) You have heard those lightning fast disclaimers at the end of radio and television advertisements. Do they scare you away or just seem like white noise required by regulatory agencies? Wake Forest University Schools of Business and Northwestern University research reported online in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that fast disclaimers can give consumers the impression that an advertisement is trying to conceal information. However, trusted brands (versus trust-unknown or not-trusted brands) are immune to the adverse effects of fast disclaimers. (more…)

(Cary, N.C.) Technovation Entrepreneur (TM), a multi-functional, integrated business program to transition research into marketable products and build viable businesses, is sponsoring Startup Weekend June 3-5 at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham and offering a discount to attendees for an upcoming webinar. “After the Start: Take Your Idea and Make a Profitable Business” is a six-hour series available to Startup Weekend attendees for $79 who register on-site this Friday, Saturday or Sunday. The price for non-attendees is $396. Technovation Entrepreneur (TM) is presented through the Triangle-based international strategic business consulting firm F.O.C.U.S. (TM) Resources. (more…)

(Virginia Beach, Va., and Raleigh, N.C.) ECPI College of Technology (ECPI) announces that it is now ECPI University. The name change reflects the diversity of programs and various levels of education provided by the university. ECPI University offers master’s, bachelor’s, and associate’s degrees in technology, health sciences, business, criminal justice and culinary arts. (more…)

(Weston, Mass., and Research Triangle Park, N.C.) About 2,700 students in Greater Boston, MA and North Carolina will benefit from $275,000 in science education grants from the Biogen Idec Foundation. The Foundation’s Transformational Grants in Science Education program was created to support organizations that are strengthening efforts to develop effective science teachers and to encourage youth to pursue science careers. Government, business and academic leaders all have identified strengthening K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education as a critical component of keeping the U.S. competitive in the global economy. (more…)

(Jamestown, N.C.) Guilford Technical Community College has been chosen for a leadership role in a national collaboration to devise and share new approaches to help more young people obtain a degree, certificate or credential. GTCC, along with four other North Carolina community colleges, will share a $495,000 planning grant to launch the project. GTCC is the managing partner among the five North Carolina community colleges which are involved in Completion by Design, a five-year program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to significantly increase completion and graduation rates for low-income students ages 18 to 26. (more…)