New position to focus on new lifelong and experiential learning opportunities and STEM workforce development partnerships throughout Nevada RENO, NV – In its continuing effort to improve Nevada’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce development and research-focused educational opportunities, the Desert Research Institute proudly announces Meghan … [Read more...]
Executive Power Tools: The Benefit of Peer Groups
What is truly at stake in your next decision? Picture a pending business challenge or opportunity. What if you could see it from every perspective, angle and point of view, perhaps even from the past and into the future? You could eliminate all the blind spots. The Desert Research Institute has such a tool for scientific research. Called the C.A.V.E., it is a six-sided … [Read more...]
Tech in Nevada
Economic development in Nevada has a direct, deliberate, effect on Nevada’s technology industry. Then again, Nevada’s technology industry is having a definite effect on economic development. It’s like the old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercials – where the collision of chocolate and peanut butter create a happy symbiosis. In this case, the combination is intentional. … [Read more...]
Dawn Gibbons, Former First Lady of Nevada, Joins the NCJFCJ
Dawn Gibbons, former First Lady of Nevada and the only First Lady to be a state legislator, has joined the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) as vice president of development. Gibbons has championed fundraising and public awareness for many important causes, including autism, domestic violence, human trafficking, drug addiction and the military. … [Read more...]
Industry Focus: Alternative Energy
Nevada’s alternative energy sector has seen a plethora of hills and valleys in recent years. From federal funding challenges to educating the general populace about alternative energy, the sector has seen its share of challenges. Recently, executives representing various alternative energy interests throughout the state met at the Reno offices of City National Bank to discuss … [Read more...]
What is Paper? Nevada Embraces Technology and the People that Create It
Remember when businesses relied on rotary phones, typewriters and snail mail, when sales were done face to face and clients paid by cash or check? Today’s essential work tools are a cellphone, laptop or tablet and the Internet. We have e-mail, videoconferencing, telecommuting, e-tail, PayPal, apps and so much more. “There are so many technologies to choose from,” said Dave … [Read more...]
February 2012: Around the State
UNR and DRI Reach Out to Business Community The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) for the University of Nevada, Reno and Desert Research Institute has created an Industry/Faculty Partnering Clinic. The program is one of three from the TTO designed to engage the community and enhance technology transfer, economic development and the relationship between the institutions and the … [Read more...]
