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Hank and His Bus: Catalysts for Changing Architectural Education?
Camille LeFevre
Wednesday, November 06, 2013
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Technology Meets Psychiatry with Local Startup CogCubed
Elizabeth Millard
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
A husband-wife team (he's a techie, she's a psychiatrist) are developing fun-to-play (but scientifically sound) game-style apps that can help diagnose ADHD and other psychiatric problems in kids.
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Where to charge your car: Electric-car "refueling" stations in the Twin Cities
Anna Pratt
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Charging stations for electric cars are popping up here and there in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. In fact, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is working to install up to 76 electric car-charging stations throughout the metro area, adding to an already expanding network. Here's our guide (a work in progress) to our towns' car-charging infrastructure.
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Meet the new face of STEM: Shefali Mehta
Julie Kendrick
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
A proud "geek girl" from childhood, this globe-trotting scientist-businesswoman founded a local STEM-education program for elementary-school kids, moved away, then returned to find it still going strong. Now she's more committed than ever to strengthening science-and-technology training in our towns.
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The Rise of the Rest: Tech Hubs Bloom Far from Silicon Valley
Eric Peterson
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
From Greenville, North Carolina to Baltimore, from Tampa to Denver to Cleveland to the Twin Cities, tech savvy, entrepreneurship, and investment are coming together to create bright clusters of digital innovation.
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Joule: The Little Coworking Space that Could
Holly Dolezalek
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
While the dynamic CoCo garners the headlines, a quiet coworking space at the edge of downtown Minneapolis welcomes solo entrepreneurs in search of a more serene scene. Owner Jackie Menne understands the needs of one-person, payroll-less microbusinesses--after all, Joule is a microbusiness itself.
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At the U of M, a confab for designers who want to change the world
Camille LeFevre
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Consolidating its position as a laboratory for cutting-edge design thinking, the University of Minnesota's College of Design hosted the first Public Interest Design Week. Its climax was an awards show that displayed ingenious design-driven solutions to the dilemmas of poverty and ill health in America and around the world.
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The Google/CoCo partnership: a new era for local tech?
Elizabeth Millard
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Last Wednesday's kickoff event for the linkup between the search-engine giant and the local coworking space was full of energy, ambition, and promise for local entrepreneurs, some of whom think Silicon Prairie's ready to bloom.
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At St. Thomas, the Hottest Tech Incubator You've Never Heard Of
Elizabeth Millard
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The University of St. Thomas's Minneapolis campus is home to a quiet program that's incubated and helped fund some of the Twin Cities' most prominent (and promising) tech startups--including several run by women. It's a place where professors turn into business advisors and colleagues and the help just keeps on coming.
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Geek gals: Can the Twin Cities lead in helping women take their place in high tech?
Elizabeth Millard
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Despite some women-led startups, high tech here, as elsewhere, is still more or less drowning in testosterone. But some strong local initiatives are pointing the way toward more opportunities for women to get their geek on.
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Venture Academy: Toward a Whole New Level of Learning
Elizabeth Millard
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The education innovators behind this charter school are hoping to create a 21st-century fusion of classroom and digital space, where kids' fascination with technology helps them learn--at their own pace.
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A Line or Two: SciSpark!
Jon Spayde
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
In A Line or Two, I share some of my enthusiasms and discoveries as I make my way around the Twin Cities. Call it an editor's note as blog entry. This week: You've got a chance on Monday to peek into the laboratories of advanced bio-researchers at the University of Minnesota, as guests of the U's union of GLBTQ scientists.
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The New Green Job Scene
Holly Dolezalek
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
While the concept of the green job is a nice fusion of much-needed employment growth and environmental responsibility, it's been hard to get a handle on the size and even the definition of this part of the job market. But according to Matt Entenza and other experts, the picture in Minnesota is getting clearer as more jobs fit the category. In fact, this small but growing sector may be the IT of the future.
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From Grain Exchange to "Brain Exchange"
Elizabeth Millard
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The historic Minneapolis building, once given over entirely to commodities like wheat and rye, is turning into one of the major hubs for high-tech in the Twin Cities. Credit an ambitious coworking space as catalyst, an ideal downtown location, and (surprise!) the continuing need for techies to actually inhabit the same physical space.
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Are our schools preparing Spocks or Kirks?
Joe Sheeran
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
In the push for STEM-oriented education, are we underplaying the creative and communicative skills that 21st-century business needs just as badly as it needs math and science competence? Minnesota 20/20 communications director Joe Sheeran asks the question in a recent blog post.
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