University of Memphis,
University of Vlora, Albania
Establish Cooperation
A Memorandum of Understand and Cooperation between the University of Memphis and the University of Vlora, Albania was signed by University of Memphis President, Dr. Shirley Rains, and University of Vlora Rector, Dr. Tanush Shaska.  This agreement establishes a promise of cooperation between the University of Memphis and the University of Vlora, Albania to mutual realization and cooperation of their teaching, research, and service programs, especially...(continue)

Pakistan, Iran Discuss
Higher Education Collaboration
Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mashallah Shakiri called on the chairman of the Higher Education Commission (HEC), Dr Javaid R Laghari, to discuss the prospects of cooperation between the two countries in the higher education sector...(continue)

Oklahoma State University
in Partnership with University in Oman
The Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University (OSU) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with A’Sharqiyah University (ASU) in Athabia, Oman that will allow OSU to assist ASU in developing curriculum and academic standards for its newly developed College of Commerce and Humanities...(continue)

Japan Institutions in
Educational Partnership for
Marine Science and Technology
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yasuhiro Kato, President, and Yokohama National University, Kunio Suzuki, President, concluded an agreement...(continue)

University of Pennsylvania
Joins International Research
Collaboration in Government/Academics
to Research “Soft Matter”
The University of Pennsylvania’s Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter has entered into a multi-year agreement with specialty chemical producer...(continue)

Houston and University of Leoben, Austria, Establish Collaboration to Promote Low Impact Drilling
The Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) and Austria’s University of Leoben announce the formation of a research collaboration to promote advanced technology for low-impact oil and gas drilling...(continue)

Colorado State University,
NeoTREX and Jovesis
Collaborate in Cancer
Therapeutics Technology
Colorado State University Research Foundation and NeoTREX have entered into an exclusive option agreement with Jovesis Inc. of Napa, Calif., to develop and use liposome-targeting technology for cancer therapeutics. The technology, invented by faculty at CSU's Animal Cancer Center, a member of CSU's Cancer Supercluster, will be used to treat humans with cancer. This new invention uses a targeting molecule on the outer surface of a bubble-like structure known as a liposome...(continue)

JISC—Case Study
Green ICT; Thin-client Saves Energy Costs
The new Queen Margaret University (QMU) campus in Edinburgh, Scotland was designed from the ground up to be very sustainable. It now uses a biomass heating plant, and natural ventilation wherever possible, limiting air conditioning use...(continue)

Auxillium West—Case Study
University Research Facility Uses HRSource HRIS to
Budget and Allocate Grant Money
A major US university that receives numerous research grants needed a tool to budget and allocate salaries from various grants. To further complicate the matter, a research scientist may split his or her time among a variety of grants; and, furthermore, some scientists only worked part-time.Utilizing the flexibility of Auxillium West's HRSource™ HRIS, a grant table was added to track each grant, the project start date, end date, review date, budget, and other fields.

The review date provided a tickler for mid-project review of the budget burn rate. It also tracked multiple projects per employee and the percent of time worked on each project. HRSource™ HRIS compared the percent of time on each project with the total time worked to help check the integrity of the data...(continue)

The Future of Collaborative Networks
By Aaron Fulkerson
Enterprise software (software that solves an enterprise problem rather than a departmental one) has been on a roller coaster of innovation in recent years. This has primarily been driven by innovations in user experience that started in the consumer web space and then seeped into enterprise software.

This new class of enterprise software, dubbed social business software, intends to create enterprise social networks and deliver new social tools for creating conversations and providing one to one interactions.

Vendors of this social software have repurposed social media tools from the consumer web by wrapping them in an enterprise message. Suddenly social networks, social bookmarking, forums, blogs, video sharing and microblogging are the new path to productivity.

Alas, it has become all too clear that individually these applications have not delivered for the enterprise in a meaningful way. As a result the industry has seen a bevy of enterprise social software suite vendors returning to the 1990s with product development that is driven by feature checklists...(continue)