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Author Archives: michelle
Luncheon with Robert Kapito (BlackRock) and Bruce Richards (Marathon)
I had the honor and pleasure last week of attending the University of Maryland’s Wall Street Speaker Series event as a member of Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society. The event was held at the Harvard Club of New York … Continue reading
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Why Manufacture in Costa Rica?
Last week, the Medical Devices Group on LinkedIn held an interesting webinar entitled “Why Manufacture in Costa Rica?” Speakers included George Blank (Chairman of the Board for Vention Medical) and Pilar Madrigal (Director of International Affairs for the Costa Rican … Continue reading
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Worldwide Invest Better Day
Tuesday was Worldwide Invest Better Day created by The Motley Fool. All day, The Motley Fool website had videos and articles about how to invest better. They even had a presentation that people could click through to help them get … Continue reading
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Lessons from the Brooklyn Book Festival
The culmination of the Brooklyn Book Festival last Sunday was better than I expected. Hundreds of writers, publishers, and organizations had booths setup in Columbus Park, and there were so many interesting presentations that it was difficult to choose which … Continue reading
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Battle of the Waistline
As VIVUS (VVUS) launches its new weight-loss drug, Qsymia, and Arena Pharmaceuticals (ARNA) prepares for its 2013 launch of competitor drug, Belviq, I thought I’d do a little compare and contrast on the two companies. Some Numbers Prior to the … Continue reading
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Matunda Water Project
Iana Aranda and Adam Goossen from Engineers Without Borders (EWB) talked about the organization and their experiences with the Matunda Water Project at last night’s IEEE meeting. EWB has over 250 chapters, and each chapter bids on projects from EWB’s … Continue reading
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Brain Connectivity through Functional MRI
Last night, IEEE’s Computational Intelligence Society hosted a talk by Dr. Bharat Biswal about his latest imaging research on brain connectivity. He first explained the difference between a traditional MRI image and a functional MRI (fMRI) image and compared them … Continue reading
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My Star Wars Ring
Today I spent six hours in a 3D printing workshop sponsored by MakerBot and The Yard. We were introduced to the basics of several programs, such as OpenSCAD, ReplicatorG, Tinkercad, Blender, meshmixer, and netfabb. We also learned about Autodesk’s 123D … Continue reading
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“Mining Big Data to Find New Markets”
Want to reduce the time your used car spends at the repair shop? Buy a used car in an unusual color – like orange. Want to drastically increase sales on your site? Change your font color. These are just two … Continue reading
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Fools Ring the Bell
The crew from The Motley Fool launched their Worldwide Invest Better Day campaign by ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. The night before the bell ringing, they hosted a Fool Community Meetup in Midtown where fans … Continue reading