Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation News

President Barack Obama honored a diverse cross-section of political and cultural icons - including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, astronaut John Glenn, basketball coach Pat Summitt and rock legend Bob Dylan - with the Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony Tuesday.

VSolvit is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The 56-year-old is expected to discuss a host of healthcare programmes that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to adopt in the state.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Tuesday met with Bill Gates at the Great Hall of the People, calling for closer cooperation between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its Chinese partners on medical care, agriculture and technology.

The Open Professionals Education Network - led by Creative Commons - is holding a conference tomorrow for grantees of the $500 million U.S. Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program program.

The club did its part in this international initiative by holding the third annual "Pancakes 4 Polio Plus" breakfast Monday morning at War Memorial Park.

Math, Science and Reading departments are collaborating to implement a Reading Apprenticeship Program which is aimed to be integrated this fall.

President Goodluck Jonathan, US philanthropist Bill Gates and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, whose roles in the development of agriculture now and in the past have been commendable are to receive awards to honour and recognise their contributions at the first Pan West African Agricultural/Food exhibition.

But school officials are moving forward anyway, according to a letter teachers received late Friday, pledging to investigate procedural errors and overturn results when warranted.

Solid science education is the best inoculation against ignorance. The Inoculation Project , founded in 2009 by hyperbolic pants explosion , is a group of Kossacks who gather weekly to combat the anti-science push in conservative America by providing direct funding to science and math projects in red state classrooms.

This year's four Gates scholars from Northland High are, from left, Sylvester Amponsah, Eugenio Asare-Boadi, Alexandria Pickett and Amjed Osman.

Students in Mesa, Ariz., soon can earn a degree from Albright College without ever traveling to the East Coast.

The recent political "furor" about birth control surprised many American women who now realize they've been taking those options for granted.

Mar Vista High School scholarship recipients were honored in a ceremony Wednesday evening, among them Valedvictorian Anselmo Fuentes, who received a $350,000 scholarship from The Gates Millenium Scholars Program , sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Seattle - Statement by Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on the occasion of the World Health Assembly resolutions declaring completion of polio eradication a global emergency and endorsing the Global Vaccine Action Plan "Today marks a huge victory in the fight to protect all children from vaccine-preventable diseases, no ... (more)

While a meeting with Akhilesh has already been fixed, UP government officials are busy scanning their slum charts to decide which particular settlement they should showcase to the visiting dignitary.

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Education expert Tony Wagner's new book Creating Innovators offers guidance to parents, educators and employers on ways to nourish the innovative spirit.

It's the sound of waste management all over the world. The call of nature is responsible for the production of countless tonnes of human waste that has to be dealt with safely and efficiently all day, every day.

"[P]eople everywhere have a stake in eradicating polio, as we have stamped out smallpox ," a  Bloomberg View editorial states, adding, "Immunizing the last unvaccinated children on the planet is an expensive and complex undertaking, and worth it in the long run." The editorial notes, "If polio transmission could be stopped by 2015, the net ... (more)