Posts Tagged ‘jobs’

Bora Zivkovic

North Carolina science journalism/blogging projects getting noticed

Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:41 pm By Bora Zivkovic

If you are interested in the topic of science journalism, how it’s changing, what’s new, and who’s who in it, you are probably already reading Knight Science Journalism Tracker. If not, you should start now.

They have recently been digging around and finding projects with which I am involved in one way or another:

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Sabine Vollmer

Biotech industry takes two on the chin

Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 7:23 am By Sabine Vollmer

The biotech industry, one of North Carolina’s premier engines for job creation, will have to do with less support from the state over the next two years.

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Sabine Vollmer

Business forum: China is not for sissies

Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 7:38 pm By Sabine Vollmer

A few weeks after being challenged by former Gov. Jim Hunt to go and recruit Chinese companies to North Carolina, Keith Crisco, the state’s new commerce secretary, offered a response at a China business forum Tuesday at Brier Creek Country Club.

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Sabine Vollmer

RTP: Then and now

Sunday, May 17, 2009, 7:09 pm By Sabine Vollmer

On a Friday afternoon, when traffic is bumper-to-bumper four lanes deep on Interstate 40 from Research Triangle Park to Raleigh, it’s hard to imagine RTP was nothing but scrub pines and possums 50 years ago.

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Sabine Vollmer

Science jobs: Where are they going?

Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 10:15 am By Sabine Vollmer

Are science jobs about to go the way manufacturing jobs have gone for years, which is to countries with lower labor costs?

It’s a question that more than 700 economic developers, economists, scientists, investors and business executives from around the world will explore at the three-day International Association of Science Parks conference that starts June 1 at the Raleigh Convention Center.

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