College privatization, Cornell University teaming with ProQuest, data center tax breaks and more

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Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 4:45pm (updated Monday, May 9, 2016 - 1:37pm)

States competing for data centers extend $1.5 billion in tax breaks

The Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 30, 2015

An Associated Press analysis of state revenue and economic-development records shows that government officials extended nearly $1.5 billion in tax incentives to hundreds of data-center projects nationwide during the past decade…

 

More Ohio colleges could pursue privatization to save money, affordability task force document says 

Columbus Business First, Sept. 29, 2015

Several recommendations were presented in a draft PowerPoint presentation by the Ohio Task Force on Affordability and Efficiency in Higher Education, which Gov. John Kasich formed in February to encourage schools to become more financially prudent…

 

Inside the dollars and cents of Cleveland's latest high-speed Internet investment 

Next City, Sept. 20, 2015

The bigger picture reveals how a community-owned asset has grown up. In a post-industrial Rust Belt, it’s also a Cinderella story with several possible precedents set along the way…

 

Cornell University Library and ProQuest team up for faster, more efficient book selection and acquisition

Proquest, Sept. 29, 2015

ProQuest is working with Cornell University Library to develop a dynamic book-selection system that will aggregate metadata from multiple sources into a single streamlined interface…

 

Supercomputer works to 'untangle' amyloid fibrils 

Futurity, Sept. 29, 2015

A new suite of computer programs could speed up the process of drug discovery for diseases, such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s, that involve amyloid fibrils…