May 30, 2013

  • UNO sets goal to double number of women pursuing IT degrees

    A look at the University of Nebraska Omaha‘s College of Information Science & Technology shows women make up just 14 percent of its undergraduate students, the Omaha-World Herald reported this week. Nationally, the number of women earning all computer and information science degrees is 18 percent. “There are so many unfilled jobs in IT, you just…

  • Student-made videos show off ISU, UNO entrepreneurship programs

    Students at Iowa State University are proving that entrepreneurship doesn’t just belong in the business school. In November 2012, the university’s Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization was given the Campus “E-Diffusion” Award by its governing organization, an entrepreneurship network with more than 240 chapters. The award recognizes the chapter that has done the most to get students…

  • Two-year-old mobile health startup Cognovant closes its doors

    “It’s the classic Series A crunch,” Joe Ketcherside, MD, said last month as matter-of-factly as diagnosing a migraine. But this time, the former neurosurgeon wasn’t assessing a patient’s health, he was talking about the startup he recently laid to rest. …