View webcasts of lectures from the Technology, Globalization, and Culture course at Iowa State University (Fall 2007). Lectures include:
Jim Duderstadt, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan on “The Globalization of Higher Education”
Newt Gingrich, Author of Winning the Future: A [...]

According to an article this past January in the New York Times, entitled Global Advances Challenge U.S. Dominance in Science the United States is lagging behind the rest of the world in the development of new S&T talents. Thanks to globalization, Americans have become reliant on “foreign-born workers to fill technical jobs” with no end [...]

The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral [...]

Towards more renewable energy, posted to Google’s blog by Larry Page, Co-Founder and President of Products
Promising technologies already exist that could be developed to deliver renewable energy cheaper than coal. We think the time is ripe to build rapidly on the tremendous work on renewable energy. For example, I believe that solar thermal technology provides [...]

Follow the “Green” Brick Road?
Each year, roughly 25 million tons of fly ash from coal-fired power plants are recycled, generally as additives in building materials such as concrete, but 45 million tons go to waste. Fly ash bricks both find a use for some of that waste and counter the environmental impact from the manufacture [...]

Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer
A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip.
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Vertical farming in the big Apple
scientists at Columbia University are proposing an alternative. Their vision of the future is one in which the skyline of New York and other cities include a new kind of [skyscraper]: the “vertical farm”. The idea is simple enough. Imagine a 30-storey building with glass walls, topped off with [...]