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NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing, AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

NVIDIAs contributions to accelerating medical imaging, genomics, computational chemistry and AI-powered robotics were honored Friday at the Precision Medicine World Conference in Santa Clara, California, where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang received a Luminary award.

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National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

Ars Technica

These go to the universities and research institutes, covering the costs of providing and maintaining the lab space, heat and electricity, administrative and HR functions, and more. These indirect costs are negotiated with each research institution and average close to 30 percent of the amount awarded for the research.

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What do the mega gifts of 2024 say about giving? 

Candid

According to Dollars and Change , a report from Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, total dollars awarded and average grant or gift size increased between 2015 and 2022. And Steve and Alex Cohen awarded $116.2 Those gifts are in addition to the $640 million she awarded in the first quarter of the year.

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Fulbright Award Winner Closes Data Skills Gap for Students and Teachers

Tableau

Now, she's taking her passion for data to the global stage, having been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award to share her expertise at the University of Eswatini. She has led several faculty training workshops at Morgan State University to upskill School of Business peers.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Migel Medal, often called the highest honor in the blindness field, is awarded annually to one or two individuals whose careers exemplify exceptional accomplishments in the field. Helen Keller, who worked for AFB for many years, was on the original award board for its first twenty years, starting in 1937.

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Forum One Honored With 11 Vega Awards

Forum One

We’re proud to share that Forum One was recently honored as a 2024 Vega Awards winner of 11 awards in five different categories! The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. The post Forum One Honored With 11 Vega Awards appeared first on Forum One.

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The idea that university degrees don’t matter is a Silicon Valley fantasy

TechCrunch

Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World’s Topic Universities,” and is CEO of Crimson Education , a university admissions consulting company. The dropouts are no ordinary dropouts – they had won places at the most prestigious universities in the world and took high school extremely seriously. Jamie Beaton. Contributor.