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White House Hangout: Small Business Week with SBA Administrator Karen Mills
Posted byon May 21, 2012 at 10:02 AM ESTOn Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at 3:00 pm ET, Small Business Administrator Karen Mills will join a Google+ Hangout to announce the SBA video contest winners and discuss how SBA assistance helped their small business and what inspired their successes.
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Putting Twitter’s “Do Not Track” Feature in Context
Posted byon May 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM ESTTwitter announces it will support a new feature in web browsers that gives users better internet privacy protection, an important step that's part of a larger Obama Administration strategy to encourage more consumer privacy protections online.
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Administration Safety Data Initiative Challenges App Developers
Posted byon May 18, 2012 at 10:20 AM ESTSafety is the number one priority at the US Department of Transportation (DOT), so National Transportation Week is the perfect time for DOT to help launch the Obama Administration's critical Safety Data Initiative.
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Responding to the President’s Call, a New Effort to Help More Students be Makers
Posted byon May 17, 2012 at 6:14 PM ESTEarlier this year at the White House Science Fair, President Obama met Joey Hudy, a 14 year old from Arizona who developed the “extreme marshmallow cannon.” Joey showed the President his business card. It had a simple motto: “Don’t be bored. Make something.”
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Robotics Initiative Gets DOD Boost
Posted byon May 17, 2012 at 10:15 AM ESTThe Department of Defense adds momentum of its own to the National Robotics Initiative, encouraging proposals for advancing robotics research.
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New Commitments Support Administration’s Materials Genome Initiative
Posted byon May 14, 2012 at 7:15 AM ESTToday, at a White House event, leaders from industry, academia, national labs, and government announced more than a dozen new commitments to advance the Administration’s Materials Genome Initiative—an ambitious challenge to double the speed and cut the cost of discovering, developing, and deploying new high-tech materials in the United States.
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Submit Your Public Safety Challenge!
Posted byon May 10, 2012 at 10:09 AM ESTSafety.Data.gov was launched recently with the goal of making datasets available that provide information about public safety issues like crime rates, roadway safety and safety in the workplace.
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Fermi Award Winners Saluted
Posted byon May 9, 2012 at 10:12 AM ESTThe best science is as much about service as it is about discovery. And that’s especially true for two of our Nation’s most accomplished researchers, who were honored Monday for devoting their lives not only to doing great science but also to teaching and mentoring, public service, and inspiring others.
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Pursuing a Future for STEM Equality
Posted byon May 7, 2012 at 12:10 PM ESTThe struggles he encountered in the past while taking an interest in STEM, coupled with his current research in computer science for his doctoral program, Sina Bahram is an active agent of change for increased accessibility to and success in STEM.
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Technology Change as the Great Equalizer
Posted byon May 7, 2012 at 11:55 AM ESTAt IBM, Dimitri Kanevsky, researcher staff member for Speech and Language Algorithms, firmly believes technology and innovation will be the fundamental achievements that allow for true equality in STEM.
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