UCSB to launch first professional school
With a curriculum that steers clear of heavy emphasis on typical MBA topics like accounting, the Master’s in Technology Management program will focus on the specific leadership and management skills needed by engineers and tech professionals.
Read More →Hitting a home run at TechPitch
Superior Solutions grabbed judges’ attention with the marketability and built-out business model for its LiftGator, a pick-up truck attachment that eases heavy lifting for which it had already raised $25,000 of its initial $55,000 seed round.
Read More →Sientra debuts on Nasdaq
On a day when the Federal Reserve announced the end to its historical bond buying program, Sientra, the Santa Barbara-based medical aesthetics company, made a bit of history of its own. Sientra became the latest company in the Tri-Counties to list on a major stock exchange Oct. 29, selling 5 million shares of common stock Read More →
Read More →Getting a grip on diabetes: Aptitude device gets fast track status for clinical trials
Aptitude creates a special type of molecule called an aptamer, which it is using to develop a first-of-its-kind hand-held device that measures insulin concentrations in real-time and can diagnose pre-diabetes. The government’s interest in furthering such research is unsurprising as diabetes affects more than 9 percent of Americans.
Read More →Air Force’s top-secret space plane lands at Vandenberg
A mysterious unmanned space craft touched down at Vandenberg Air Force Base this morning after spending 674 days in orbit.
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