COVID-19 pandemic is presenting extraordinary challenges to our organizational leaders. The strongest leaders are dealing with the short term—by acting rapidly to protect their employees, customers, business, and the public—while anticipating the eventual rebound. The situation remains fluid and even if the epidemic subsides in the coming months, how can organizations and leaders lead and…
The Journal of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society and the ACS Committee on Chemical Education jointly launched a virtual special issue, which brings together related articles and other online resources on distance chemistry education published by journals over the years. See More : https://pubs.acs.org/page/jceda8/vi/teaching-chemistry-online
Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) will publish a special issue on the environmental transmission and related control technology of the COVID-19 virus in 2020, with the theme “Environmental Transmission and Control of COVID-19”. The call for papers is live, and the submission deadline for papers is August 15, 2020. See More : https://axial.acs.org/2020/03/16/environmental-transmission-and-control-of-covid-19-est-special-issue-call-for-papers/
On top of the $540 million to build up artificial intelligence systems and meet national cyber security needs, another $80 million will be invested in ramping up cell manufacturing capabilities for cell therapy, which has been hailed as the future of medicine. And $144 million will go towards food research, including urban farming and lab-grown…
Today, as part of continued efforts to foster transparency and reproducibility in life science research, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the nonprofit publisher of the Science family of journals, announces a four-year collaboration with the publisher Bio-protocol. The launch of the agreement between AAAS and Bio-protocol comes amid a growing demand…
National Research Foundation launched new national Health Technologies Consortium (HealthTEC) to accelerate the process of turning medical discovery. The consortium will facilitate interactions between members at networking sessions, workshops, discussions and symposiums. It will also match-make industry partners with academics at research institutes and institutions of higher learning. Professor Lim Chwee Teck, who is the…
A boost of $540 million in research and development funding for the digital technologies and automation was announced at the 11th Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council on 26 March 2019. This funding would aid in the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify patients predisposed to chronic diseases like diabetes, robots to perform menial…
Southeast Asia has made remarkable progress over the past decade in raising average income levels and reducing poverty. Yet economic disparities remain within and between countries. Better policies to enhance physical connectivity can benefit all of Southeast Asia. ITF Secretary-General Young Tae Kim (photo) highlighted ITF’s work on transport connectivity at a recent OECD Forum…
Co-working spaces aren’t revolutionary when we consider that libraries have been providing this service forever. And yet companies that do this, the biggest being WeWork, have managed to monetize it. WeWork started with a mission to build community. Quite literally part of their mission statement is to create “a place you join as an individual,…