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The City of Redwood City is pleased to announce that Ms. Jana Kiser has accepted the position of Executive Director of Redwood City 2020, the local community collaborative which supports youth and families and seeks to engage and strengthen the community through its programs.

In California, Assistant Secretary Barton will meet with representatives from foreign policy and technology-focused organizations.

Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in a September article in Forbes magazine, "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies," wrote that her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," led to a world ban on DDT use.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.

Washington: Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan on Thursday scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America's second highest court.

Sylvan Eisenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Mae Kauffman and Morris Eisenberg.

California's stem cell agency has awarded $36 million from the Research Leadership Awards to attract six top stem cell scientists.

In the one month since it was written, 520 global scientists have signed on to this statement .

A source of electromagnetic waves at the top of the image can generate "hot spots" of field strength deep inside simulated biological tissue that are strong enough to power a pacemaker; according to computer simulations.

A study by the National Science Foundation naming the top 10 universities receiving the most federal funding for research and development ranked UC San Diego in 8th place out of 896 colleges that received federal R&D money during the 2011 fiscal year.

Amprius' plan, outlined at the DOE Merit Review in 2012, is to start with consumer electronics and move to vehicle and grid storage markets.

An associate professor of finance, Bergstresser teaches classes in fixed income securities, corporate financial engineering and venture capital.

According to a 2009 study conducted by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, 42 percent of Michigan's charter schools outperformed traditional public schools in math and 35 percent outperformed them in reading.

Anyone who has ever wrestled with athlete's foot knows there is something about feet that fungi seem to like.

Source: Huffington Post Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline.

An associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University has been charged with felony parent abduction after taking her three children on what authorities contend was a one-way trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

He is one of only 50 U.S. students to receive a full merit scholarship to attend one of the 13 worldwide United World College programs, according to a news release from the school district.

In this month's Scientific American science writer Ed Yong explores new research on stereotype threat - the fear of confirming derogatory stereotypes about one's social group.

Today, the NFL informed the media that it will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl at the 49ers' new stadium being built in Santa Clara, California.

With his family, he immigrated to the United States as a toddler. His mother left her career as a doctor and his father became a janitor at Stanford University to support a dream of educational opportunity for their children.