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We feel it at the pump. Fuel prices are at record highs and so is the demand for alternative fuels. But major scientific and technological advances are still required before economically viable alternative fuels become a significant part of the U.S. energy supply. Researchers across the Georgia Institute of Technology campus are focusing their attention on biofuels. And while most experts agree that biofuels are not the silver bullet to solve the worlds long-term fuel needs, they see biofuels as a necessary complement to conventional oil and gas. Biofuel research at Georgia Tech intensified in 2004 with the launch of

The University of Alabama announced plans to offer an executive MBA degree in Huntsville starting in July 2008. The degree will be offered through a cooperative agreement with the University of Alabama in Huntsville on the Huntsville campus, the school said Monday. Courses will be taught primarily by faculty from the Manderson Graduate School of Business at the Culverhouse College of Commerce and the degree will be given by UA. More : bizjournals.com

Jackets fit MBA alum Fisher If ever a baseball player seemed destined to wear the gold and black of Vanderbilt, it was Michael Fisher. He grew up in Nashville, attended nearby Montgomery Bell Academy and is the son of Fred Fisher, who quarterbacked the Commodore football team in the 1970s. Vanderbilt diligently recruited the hometown kid but lost the battle to Georgia Tech. I wanted to get away from home for my college experience, Fisher said. Both programs are great programs. I would have been thrilled to be in either one of them. I just thought the better fit for me was Georgia Tech. For

Companies associated with Georgia Techs science and technology incubator have raised more than a billion dollars in venture capital since 1999 - and in 2006 accounted for 10 of the top 25 venture deals in Georgia, including the two largest. The incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), has turned out 112 science and technology companies since 1986 - including 31 that have been represented on the public markets through IPOs or acquisitions. At a May 10 event held to showcase the incubators companies, ATDC graduated six early-stage firms - three Internet companies, two semiconductor firms and a developer of

This programme offers a major boost to a young faculty member with an exciting research vision.... Microsoft Research has named two Indian Americans amongst the first five recipients of its New Faculty Fellowship Awards, a new programme that honours early-career university professors who demonstrate exceptional talent for novel research and thought leadership in their discipline. The two Indian Americans Subhash Khot and Radhika Nagpal were selected from a pool of 110 nominees representing universities across the United States. Khot and Nagpal, along with three other fellows, will receive a 200,000 dollars cash grant to pursue their innovative research work in

American Pacific Corporation (NASDAQ: APFC) today announced that Fred D. Gibson, Jr., one of its current directors and retired Chief Executive Officer, has made a commitment of $1 million to the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc. which receives and manages private contributions made for the support of (Georgia Tech). The $1 million commitment will be used to establish a permanent endowment to support the Mary and Maisie Gibson Institute Professorship. Appointments to the Professorship will be administered by the President at Georgia Tech within any academic discipline. Mr. Gibson will initially fund the commitment with a gift of 15,000 shares of

HOUSTON - Top-Rated International Present universities in the future of the company at A Distinguished Panel of Judges (March 14, 2006) - Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted the sixth installation of the business plan competition Rice (RBPC), the world's largest in the world. The 2006 competition is one of the best business meetings in Houston. RBPC recently announced, semi-finalists, who are competing for more than $ 260000 and prices. The three-day business plan competition, the starting signal for March 30, 2006, organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at

Leaders in Forsyth County are so anxious to have a local, four-year college that they're willing to start small — on a vacant floor of Cumming City Hall. Starting in August, North Georgia College and State University of Dahlonega will offer a master's degree in business administration at City Hall. "This is for us a historic occasion," said university President David Potter said Tuesday night, in announcing the partnership at a Cumming City Council meeting. North Georgia only recently established a business school, and the MBA program in Cumming will be a first for the university, Potter said. Classes will be held in the

US-based computer manufacturer Dell intends to double its workforce to 20000 over the next three years in India, where there is only one for a growth of 40 per cent of their founder and chairman Michael Dell said Monday in Bangalore. "We have big plans for growth in India," he told a press conference. "We expect that within the next three years, our workforce in India to roughly double from 10000 to 20000" India had produced 200000 graduates of the year 2005. "We see this as a fantastic opportunity for us, for some of the best and brightest engineers for our

Business Schools Expand Programs In a Dicey Market Applications to full-time M.B.A. programs have been in a free fall the past few years, forcing some business schools to slash their class size. Surely, in this market, no dean in his right mind would launch a full-time masters degree program in business administration. Think again. At least four schools in major U.S. cities are doing just that. Georgia State University, the University of Houston, the University of San Diego and the University of California, San Diego, have all created full-time programs in the past year. They might seem to be ignoring the basic

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