Pittsburgh is known colloquially as "The City of Bridges" and "The Steel City" for its many bridges and former steel manufacturing base.
While the city is historically known for its steel industry, today its economy is largely based on health care, education, technology, robotics, and financial services. The city has made great strides in redeveloping abandoned industrial sites with new housing, shopping and offices, such as the SouthSide Works. While Pittsburgh faced economic troubles in the mid 1980s as the steel industry waned, modern Pittsburgh is economically strong. In 2009, Pittsburgh was named most livable city in the United States and 29th-most-livable city worldwide by The Economist
Post Doc in Denmark heterotrophic protist abundance
Published on 2010-03-07 09:12:42
Below is the link to a post-doc opportunity through the EU at the Danish Technical University. This may be an opportunity for a soon to be graduate student to work on a collaborative project investigating the fine scale structure of heterotrophic protist abundances in relation to physical and biological structures.
FameLab - competição internacional de comunicação de ciência
Published on 2010-03-03 16:27:36
O FameLab , uma competição internacional de comunicação de ciência, vai ser lançado este ano em Portugal pelo primeira vez numa iniciativa do Ciência Viva e do British Council e as inscrições já estão abertas (até dia 31 de março) .
Como já vem sendo habitual, estarão disponíveis apoios para a deslocação de membros com estatuto regular, mediante apresentação de recibos na Assembleia Geral (Domingo, dia 11 de Abril).
It is my pleasure to announce that the XI PAPS Annual Forum will take place at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA on April 10-11. This year's forum focuses on the impacts of Science and Technology in other disciplines. Hope the program is of your interest and that you will be able to join us! Please register for the forum as soon as possible. In order to do that you will need to sign in (http://www.papsonline.org/auth/login) and then choose Register for Forum 2010 (on the right tab, or http://www.papsonline.org/forum2010_signups/new). If some of your contact information changed please take the time to update it under My Profile (tab on the right).
The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) is pleased
to announce that applications are now being accepted for the
2010-2011 California Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
based in Sacramento. The S&T Policy Fellowship, a unique
one-year professional development opportunity, provides the
selected fellows with hands-on experience working with the
California Legislature to i...
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Post-Doc at University of Barcelona - cell migration
Published on 2010-01-26 01:26:48
Two postdoctoral positions are available at the University of
Barcelona to study the basic mechanisms underlying collective cell
migration. We are seeking one candidate with physics/engineering
background to study the generation and transmission of physical
forces in a migrating epithelial cell sheet, and one candidate with
a cell/molecular biology background to perform a systematic
analysis of th...
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