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Quora Response: Fueling Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 8:48 PM EDTUS Chief Technology Officer Todd Park responds to a question about the Obama Administration's efforts to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.
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The Churchill Bust & Charles Krauthammer
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 5:30 PM EDTCommunications Director Dan Pfeiffer's email to columnist Charles Krauthammer on the recent back-and-forth over the busts of Winston Churchill and the White House.
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President Obama Honors Early-Career Scientists and Engineers
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 5:22 PM EDTWhite House Science and Technology Advisor John Holdren confers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to 96 outstanding researchers.
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The Social Innovation Fund Adds Four New Intermediaries to its Portfolio
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 3:13 PM EDTThe SIF is elevating proven community solutions, helping build scale through philanthropic leverage and evaluation of results to fund programs that work.
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An Issue Beyond Debate: Congress Should Act Now to Protect Women
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 3:01 PM EDTAn op-ed from Vice President Joe Biden argues that Congress needs to act as soon as possible to extend the Violence Against Women Act.
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Panel Shows What’s Possible in Education Technology
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM EDTLast Monday, at a Capitol Hill briefing co-sponsored by Sens. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Michael Bennet of Colorado, a panel of experts described some of the innovative learning technologies being brought to bear in public education and ways in which the Obama Administration’s proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Education (ARPA-ED) could speed the development and deployment of these valuable technologies.
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Better Building Federal Award Underway
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 2:48 PM EDTThe nomination period for the 2013 Better Building Federal Award (BBFA) is now open. This contest builds on the Federal Government’s goal to reduce energy intensity – or energy consumed per square foot – by 30 percent by 2015 through encouraging, recognizing, and rewarding Federal agencies that achieve the greatest annual savings in energy intensity.
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Giving Women Control Over Their Health Care
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 2:42 PM EDTOn August 1, 2012, women will have access to eight new health care services at no out-of-pocket cost to keep them healthier and to catch potentially serious conditions at an earlier, more treatable stage.
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International Religious Freedom: A Human Right, A National Security Issue, A Foreign Policy Priority
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 2:16 PM EDTThe State Department releases a report on the importance of religious freedom.
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Young Men from The Institute for Responsible Citizenship Visit the White House
Posted by on July 31, 2012 at 12:52 PM EDTTwenty accomplished young men from the Institute for Responsible Citizenship (I4RC) visit the White House to discuss responsibility, respect, personal faith, and to share their anxities about their future.
