The former host of the long-running PBS series "Scientific American Frontiers" is a founder and visiting professor of journalism at the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science, which has just been named in his honor.
Cynthia Kenyon, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of Elixir Pharmaceuticals, another company looking into anti-ageing drugs, believes that molecules such as resveratrol are likely to be approved in the next five to ten years, for use as prophylactics against age-related diseases.
Pell founded the company with two others that he met at Singularity University, Naveen Jain, the founder of InfoSpace and Intelius, and Dr. Robert Richards, a founder of International Space University, who is CEO of Moon Express.
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The amyloid theory "is in a meltdown, " says Claude Wischik of the University of Aberdeen, founder of the biotech TauRx Therapeutics.
The average bereavement leave for a person who loses a child is three days, according to Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, a researcher at Arizona State University and the founder of the MISS Foundation, which provides support to grieving families.
Its founder, Ronald Bruder, a graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University, believes a focused educational approach is the key to economic growth in the Islamic world.
In his New York Times bestseller, Abundance, XPrize and Singularity University founder Peter Diamandis tells the story of how aluminum went from a rare metal to something we wrap our food in.
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Donald Fitzmaurice, a professor of nanomaterials at University College Dublin, and the founder of Nanomat, believes that thin films made of metal-oxide nanoparticles could have a promising future in solar cells and batteries.
Among other things, he is currently Legal Adviser UNESCO, he has been a professor of International Law at the University of Geneva and founder and editor of the African Yearbook on International Law.
Ali serves as a mentor to Startup Labs-Syracuse and at Cornell University Ali is a junior and a co-founder of the co-working space: The PopShop.
Society needs to consume less of everything from automobiles to air conditioning if it wants to confront climate change, according to Daniel Farber, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Berkeley and founder of Legal Planet, while speaking today at Pace Law School in White Plains, NY.
During college he was part of a select acting company whose productions, at Eastern Michigan University, were directed by a moonlighting Marshall W. Mason, the founder of New York's Circle Repertory Theatre.
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"On the one hand, doing these rituals is a way of showing that you're not a materialistic person and that you value your close friendships, " said Alexander, a sociology professor and founder and co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
"Our clients are increasingly wealthy, " says Schwab's co-CEO, David Pottruck, 52, a former University of Pennsylvania football player who is as pugnacious and combustible as the founder, Charles Schwab, 63, is soft-spoken and laid back.
Berger is the co-founder of the media and social media training firm Everything is on the Record, Founder of Sports Business Radio and an Adjunct Professor at Portland State University, where he teaches a Sports Business Strategies course.
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Len was a co-founder of the center before he became the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
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A. at the University of Southern California and got his start in commodities with Rich, founder of the company that became Glencore.
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While the newly integrated admissions approach is mainly aimed at finding employable prospects, career-services officers also provide a key reality check for applicants early in the game, says Graham Richmond, a former admissions officer at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and founder of admissions consulting firm Clear Admit.
For example, Vivek Wadhwa , a Duke University researcher worked with the Kauffman Foundation in 2009 to explore the anatomy of a successful startup founder.
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"There did not seem to be a great deal of coordination by high schools or donors to ensure that there wasn't a great deal of overlap, " says Mark Williams, founder and president of the Center for Higher Education Support Services, recalling his five years as a financial aid administrator at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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