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Silverstein Properties And Cantor Fitzgerald Partner With University Place Associates To Develop Life Science Project In Philadelphia Opportunity Zone

December 2, 2020 [email protected]_84 Associates, Cantor, develop, Fitzgerald, life, Opportunity , partner, Philadelphia, place, Project, properties, science, Silverstein, university, Zone

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Silverstein Properties, a private real estate developer, owner and property manager based in Manhattan, and Cantor Fitzgerald, a leading global financial services firm and real estate investment company based in Manhattan, are partnering with University Place Associates (UPA), a sustainable commercial development firm based in Philadelphia, to develop, operate and lease 3.0 University Place, a state-of-the-art life sciences-enabled building located in the rapidly growing submarket of University City. 3.0 University Place is located in a Qualified Opportunity Zone as well as Keystone Opportunity Zone.

The 250,000 square foot, eight-story lab and office building is a pre-certified LEED Platinum® v4 BD+C Core and Shell building, also targeting WELL v2 Platinum® certification with a focus on employee safety and wellbeing, maximizing environmental sustainability, and energy efficiency.

“I am very excited to participate in the development of this outstanding project,” said Larry A. Silverstein, Chairman of Silverstein Properties. “With more life science companies locating in Philadelphia, this project will greatly impact the industry’s growth in the city. We look forward to working closely with Scott Mazo and the UPA organization. This partnership offers us an opportunity to impact thousands of lives in a positive way in Philadelphia.”

Silverstein Properties’ foray into the life science market began in 2017 when the company acquired and repositioned 619 West 54th Street, later renamed the Hudson Research Center, one of Manhattan’s premier life science hubs.

“Our team is honored by the trust and confidence expressed in us by such accomplished organizations as Silverstein Properties and Cantor Fitzgerald,” said Scott Mazo, Founder and CEO of UPA. “I look forward to working with Larry Silverstein, Howard Lutnick and their entire teams in creating the finest facilities designed and built for innovation and discovery in science. With ‘The Wistar Institute’ as one of our lead tenants, 3.0 University Place will be a critical hub for collaborations that support the biomedical research that is solving the most challenging problems in cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research.”

Designed by The Sheward Partnership, 3.0 University Place will feature 30,000 square foot floor plates and 15-18 foot slab to slab heights. The facility will include ground-floor retail and curated wet/dry lab space, including an incubation co-working floor operated by Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and a dedicated floor for prebuilt 3,000-10,000 square foot “Growth Pods” with 3- to 5-year leases for graduate/smaller-scale companies. Future tenants in the building will benefit from significant tax incentives as well as proximity to the 40th & Market transit hub, the University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University.

“3.0 University Place will connect some of the world’s finest scientific companies, academic and industry partners, and entrepreneurs – including The Wistar Institute and Ben Franklin Technology Partners,” said Anthony Maher, President of UPA. “These organizations are dynamic examples of how Philadelphia is creating a community of scientists whose collaborations will go far beyond the walls of a new building.”

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Censys: How a university project became a major commercial security platform

December 2, 2020 [email protected]_84 Censys, commercial, major, Platform, Project, security, university

Mapping organizations’ attack surface, one scan at a time

Censys: How a university project became a major commercial security platform

“In the lifecycle of vulnerability management, where investigation, response, and remediation have all changed from a periodic to a continuous model, discovery has lagged behind,” muses Zakir Durumeric, assistant professor at Stanford University and co-founder of security platform Censys.

In 2013, Durumeric was a 24-year-old student at the University of Michigan and was part of a research group studying the security of internet-connected devices.

The research led to the development of ZMap, a network scanner that discovers devices and services exposed to the internet.

ZMap, featured at the 2013 Usenix Security Symposium, earned Durumeric a spot in MIT Technology Review’s coveted list of 2015 Visionaries under the age of 35.

Since then, ZMap has grown and remains a popular tool for security experts and threat hunters.

And Durumeric has built on that experience to co-found Censys, a security platform that helps companies monitor their online assets and discover vulnerable devices before malicious actors do.

From academic research to company launch

“We were interested in how internet hosts behaved en masse (e.g, the cadence of software patching and how the internet responds to massive vulnerabilities like Heartbleed),” Durumeric says about the research that led to the development of ZMap.

ZMap can scan the entire public IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes on a single computer with a gigabit connection.

With a 10gigE connection, the scan time can be reduced to just five minutes. The data it gathers from internet-connected devices can then help find and patch vulnerabilities in networks.

ZMap was later merged into the ZMap Project along with several other tools, including ZGrab, a Go application-layer scanner.

Zakir Durumeric is co-founder of Censys

Censys co-founder Zakir Durumerick

“The demand for this data grew over time, as did the need for an easier way to query what the internet looked like, so we created Censys to allow our team and the broader research community to instantly answer their questions about the composition of the internet,” Durumeric says.

Built on top of ZMap and ZGrab, Censys is a search engine for internet-connected devices and services.

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After its launch, Censys quickly gained commercial popularity, amassing tens of thousands of users. In 2017, Durumeric teamed up with entrepreneur David Corcoran to launch Censys as an independent company based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Corcoran, an information security graduate from Purdue University and long-time consultant of tech companies and government agencies, is now the CEO of Censys.

After its launch, Censys has made several key hires. This includes Derek Abdine, previously head of labs at Rapid 7, as its CTO, and Lorne Groe, former CFO/COO at Deepfield, as COO.

Censys has also hired several security experts from Duo Security, Arbor Networks, Tenable, and the US government.

Tracking the internet

ZMap and ZGrab were designed to help users understand the state of the internet at a specific point in time for a specific service.

Censys, however, has a much broader

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Texas Wesleyan University Launches Multifaceted Project

November 30, 2020 [email protected]_84 Launches, Multifaceted, Project, Texas, university, Wesleyan

DALLAS—Student housing developer Panteras Development Partners and owner-operator Miyama USA Texas have entered into a long-term ground lease with Texas Wesleyan University/TXWES to launch a new project for the university. Located at 3228 E. Rosedale, The Rosedale will feature one- and two-bedroom apartments less than a minute away from the center of campus.

Equity for the 56-unit 101-bed community has been provided by Miyama USA Texas. Miyama USA Texas and Panteras worked closely with the university’s division of student affairs and received input from current TXWES graduate and undergraduate students to design a project that will benefit the neighborhood and the campus.

“We are extremely pleased to partner with Miyama Texas USA and Panteras Development in providing our students with such a unique living experience,” said Fred Slabach, president of Texas Wesleyan University. “The welcoming, sophisticated environment of the student housing in a location that allows students to be fully integrated with the campus community, will raise the bar for student living at Texas Wesleyan while fulfilling our strategic vision by enriching our students’ campus experience.”

The community consists of a single building with an exterior design incorporating elements consistent with other on-campus buildings, 101 secure gated parking spaces and three floors of residential space. Amenities will include student lounges with large-screen televisions and dedicated study areas.

The area’s new look will be reminiscent of a college town with turn-of-the-century accents. Kiosks that document the history of Polytechnic Heights will also be built.

“The key point is this adds an important student residential component to a major redevelopment of a neighborhood and will transform the entryway to the university,” a project spokesperson tells GlobeSt.com.

Indeed, the centerpiece of the project will be a $1.3 million entryway for the school that will include a clock tower and horseshoe-shaped parking, GlobeSt.com learns. That part of campus, at East Rosedale Street and Vaughn Boulevard, is now closed to traffic by a decorative iron fence.

While the entryway may be the centerpiece of the Rosedale Renaissance project, it is Texas Wesleyan’s plans to build a $3 million conference center that has captured the attention of the Central Texas Conference, as this will serve as the new home for the Central Texas Conference Service Center.

The 15,000-square-foot conference center planned for Texas Wesleyan will sit on the south side of East Rosedale. While it will be used primarily by the Central Texas Conference, which will lease the facility, pre-ministerial students will prepare for seminary studies there, officials said.

“We took great care to design plans for a development that is a good fit for the neighborhood and for the university,” said Alex Bryant, co-founder and managing partner of Panteras Development Partners. “Our team’s experience and close interaction with Texas Wesleyan culminated in the unique plan for this challenging development site.”

Leading the development efforts for Panteras Development Partners along with Bryant is Jake Proctor, both cofounders of the firm. Overseeing funding and management of the community are Takeharu Miyama, chairman and CEO, and Sawako Miyama,

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University Center Club responds again to game postponement, Project Annie, City Walk benefit

November 28, 2020 [email protected]_84 Annie, benefit, Center, city, club, game, postponement, Project, Responds, university, Walk

Terrace East photo of University Center Club at Florida State University. (Photo: CLAY HAYNER)

Last Saturday’s postponement of the FSU-Clemson football game prepared the University Center Club at FSU’s staff – which provides pre-game meals for 3,000 member and guests — for the next time.

The next time came Saturday.

Tracy Marple, regional manager of University Center Club, said club staff was notified at 10:30 a.m. Saturday that the 8 p.m. game against the University of Virginia was postponed.

FSU Athletics Director David Coburn said the game was called due to “positive (COVID-19) tests, subsequent quarantining, and contact tracing within the Florida State football team.”

“We had a practice run (last Saturday); I have a very efficient team,” Marple said Saturday afternoon.

Marple said the club would have opened at 6 p.m. for an 8:05 p.m. kick-off, and most of the food had been prepared for the approximately 3,000 members and guests.

“Therefore, all of the prep is completed prior to gameday, such as Penne Antipasti, Tropical Fruit Salad, Shrimp Cocktail, coleslaw for our ” Slawdog”,” she said.

Other favorites include mac n’ cheese, the Killer Nole Sandwich Bar, which is a giant sub, assembled and ready to slice.

In addition, the Street Taco Stand prep work is completed, ready for assembly, along with Black Bean Salsa and Lime Crème.

More: University Center Club at FSU brings early Thanksgiving to local shelter, police

More: Florida State football game vs. Virginia postponed

As it did last Saturday, the club decided to donate the food again to the City Walk Urban Mission, the FSU Police Department and this time, Project Annie, in Frenchtown, which served 1,000 takeout meals on Thanksgiving.

“We just took a truckload to Project Annie and she said that would feed 200 people. Then, we are going to be going to City Walk Mission as we did last time and then the FSU Police Department,” Marple said.

Marple said enough food was distributed to serve 200 people at Project Annie, 200 at City Walk Urban Mission and 50 at FSUPD.

Marple said the staff works out of seven kitchens in the University Center in preparation for feeding members of the Champions Club as well as preparing food for the skybox suites.

Marple said employees know their roles well and are prepared to adjust.

“They can turn on a dime,” she said.

Contact senior writer Byron Dobson at [email protected] or on Twitter @byrondobson.

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University of Tulsa helping lead project to build up nation’s cybersecurity workforce | Local News

November 28, 2020 [email protected]_84 build, cybersecurity, helping, lead, local, nations, News, Project, Tulsa, university, Workforce

“The project also dovetails nicely with the (George Kaiser Family Foundation) initiative to make Tulsa a cyber city,” Shenoi said.

The project was initiated based on a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce and DHS that describes both cybersecurity workforce needs and projected shortages.

In 2017, there were almost 300,000 active openings for cybersecurity-related jobs in the U.S. Globally, projections suggest a cybersecurity workforce shortage of 1.8 million by 2022, officials said.

Moreover, the majority of U.S. critical infrastructure is owned and operated by private companies, making its cybersecurity workforce vital.

The federal government also depends heavily on its cybersecurity workforce, supplemented by contractors.

Shenoi said the goal is to build up the nation’s cyber workforce in two areas, incident response and industrial control systems.

“Everything is automated now. And as you can imagine, really bad things can happen,” he said. “You can hack a plane while it’s flying. Or you can affect a nuclear reactor or a gas pipeline or an automobile.”

We’ve become a world of “small intelligent devices,” Shenoi said.

“They are all over the place, communicate with each other and make our lives better — but we’ve got to secure them.”

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Yanire Valdez Monge, the young woman from Sonora selected to participate in a NASA project

November 27, 2020 [email protected]_84 Monge, NASA, Participate, Project, selected, Sonora, Valdez, Woman, Yanire, Young

The student confessed that since she was little it has been her dream to work at NASA, so she has worked hard to achieve it.

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At just 19 years old, the third semester student of the Mechatronics Engineering career at the Hermosillo Technological Institute (ITH) was chosen to participate in NASA’s International Air and Space Program 2021.

He detailed the following through social networks: “Since I was little my dream has always been to work for NASA, that is why I have always studied a lot and worked hard.”

Similarly, he mentioned that he does not want to miss this great opportunity and that he needs support to raise the cost of the program, which is $ 3,500.

Through his Facebook account, Yanire published a flyer in which he indicates a bank account in which contributions can be made so that he can fulfill his dream of attending the NASA project. In the same way, the young woman mentions that activities will be carried out in the future to support her. She still says that sharing her publication is of great help to her, since that way she reaches more people.

Congratulating in advance, he announced the account where contributions can be sent:

BBVA 277-565-3657 or with Clabe Interbancaria 0127 6002 7756 536579 in the name of Frelani Valdez.

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What is the International Air and Space Program?

It is a five-day educational program that involves teamwork, problem solving, and communication between NASA students and expert engineers to adapt and solve any unexpected problems.

A total of 60 students will participate in the International Air and Space Program 2021, during these five days, the young people will develop a project together with a team. Subsequently, the winning work of the program will be applied to NASA. Yanire is not the only one who was selected, since other students already have the project pass, such as Michel Molina and Francisco Trejo.

Image: TecNM Campus Hermosillo

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Fighting space junk: UT, IBM project aims to bring order to orbital chaos – Business – Austin American-Statesman

November 27, 2020 [email protected]_84 aims, AmericanStatesman, Austin, bring, Business, Chaos, Fighting, IBM, junk, orbital, Order, Project, Space

It’s getting crowded in Earth’s orbital space.

More than half a million man-made objects — ranging from as small as a speck to as large as a school bus — are orbiting the planet at a variety of speeds and paths. Many of those devices are no longer active — space junk, if you will — and only about 26,000 satellites are being tracked.

Still, various governments and private companies have plans to send 20,000 more objects into orbit within the next five years.

Satellites serve a variety of key uses, from national security to keeping the Internet online. But for the most part space traffic — and the resulting debris — is being tracked imperfectly, inconsistently or not at all.

“There are no sort of laws or rules right now in the space. It’s the Wild West. Whoever can put stuff up, it’s yours,” said Naeem Altaf, an Austin-based IBM engineer and the company’s chief technology officer for space tech.

Altaf is teaming up with Moribah Jah, an aerospace engineer professor at the University of Texas, in an effort to bring some order to that chaos.

Jah and Altaf are working with a partnership called the Space Situational Awareness project. The project’s intent is to track, analyze and update the locations of thousands of objects in orbit.

With technology improving rapidly, many satellites developed just a few years ago are also already largely obsolete. Each device also has a finite work life, Altaf said. As a result, technology continues being built and sent up rapidly with little accountability for the creation of more space junk and light pollution, as well as the possibility of catastrophic collisions and other problems.

“It’s becoming worse because there’s a new space race led by industry, to put as much space hardware on orbit as possible for different services and capabilities like communications, global Internet and even more eyes looking down on the planet, for a variety of stakeholders,” Jah said.

Jah and Altaf say they hope the Space Situational Awareness project– which builds on a crowdsourced space monitoring data platform Jah first developed called the ASTRIAGraph — will help bring order, open sourced data and better regulation of space traffic.

Jah and Altaf are among a small number of U.S. researchers and technologists working to solve problems related to the space ecosystem. Their work and platform will give users access to up to date information on location and orbit path of objects launched by governments and companies in a single database, and updates daily with the latest positions.

Government agencies around the world, including the U.S. Department of Defense, keep databases, form policies and hold annual meetings to discuss the orbit path of objects. But there’s still not enough information flowing between those agencies, along with commercial entities that are involved in producing and launching satellites, Jah said.

“We have an identity crisis in space in the sense that we’re tracking about 26,000 things, only about 3,000 are working satellites, and everything else

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College students launch project to reduce food waste and feed hungry families

November 26, 2020 [email protected]_84 college, Families, feed, Food, hungry, launch, Project, reduce, students, Waste

Many can still vividly recall images of crops rotting in the field and milk being dumped when schools and restaurants were forced to close in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Some college students want to make sure we never see that again.

Vernie Jackson was not in line at a food pantry last Thanksgiving — but he’s since fallen on hard times.

“I lost people in the pandemic, and then I lost my job in the pandemic,” Jackson said. “So right now, you know, I’m just praying to the Lord.”

Jack Rehnborg is a junior at Stanford University. He is among a group of college students who co-founded the FarmLink Project after being stunned by images of produce rotting on farms during the pandemic.

“This is absurd for the wealthiest country in the world to have all this food going to waste and all these people that are hungry,” he told CBS News. “It’s a problem that about 20 billion pounds of food is wasted.”

The FarmLink Project collects food from the fields and delivers it to pantries running on empty.

“So it’s been big and huge, and we’re really thankful for them,” event coordinator Kenneth Marshall said.

They’ve served more than 18 million meals since the spring, and this Thanksgiving week they’re handing out one million meals across the country.

“We’re gonna try and keep doing deliveries across the country, you know, keep food moving,” Rehnborg said.

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A pandemic-proof project: The University of East London delivers Dynamics 365 with Pythagoras

November 25, 2020 [email protected]_84 Delivers, Dynamics, East, London, pandemicproof, Project, Pythagoras, university

LONDON, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Consultancy firm Pythagoras and the University of East London (UEL) are delighted to share the launch of the first phase of a customer relationship management (CRM) project, which was successfully delivered remotely in just ten weeks during the UK’s first Covid-19 lockdown.

A pandemic-proof project: The University of East London delivers Dynamics 365 with Pythagoras.

UEL identified a need to consolidate various CRM-type systems across the university into a single system to provide all users with up to date, accurate information about their enquirers, learners and alumni. Microsoft Dynamics 356 was selected as the preferred platform, enhanced by Evolve HE: Pythagoras’ higher education-specific accelerator. The project was divided into four distinct phases that would deliver cutting-edge functionality across the entire student journey, including enquiries, application, enrolment, on-course, graduation and alumni.

Speaking about the importance and aims of the programme of work, Amanda Niblett, Director of IT at the University of East London said, “Crucial to delivering our ‘Digital First’ initiative is to deliver a CRM platform that can be fed with consistent, gold-standard data from many applications and systems. This will allow us to produce really good managed information; to collaborate across services; and ensure that stakeholder interactions and engagements are recorded in one place, across their whole journey from applicant to alumni.”

A pandemic-proof project

During the delivery of Release One, the UK went into lockdown, making working from home mandatory for all who were able to do so. Luckily, UEL had invested in delivering Microsoft Teams in 2018, meaning work could continue without impacting the project schedule or system quality.

“Overnight, we were able to ensure that everyone could work from home and that we could continue to deliver teaching remotely. We could also continue our three key digital transformation projects that were just beginning, CRM being one of them.

“Microsoft Teams has allowed us to continue to collaborate during lockdown. The success of the Dynamics 365 project was dependent upon our teams being able to deliver functionality and train our users completely remotely. I believe it’s been extremely successful.”- Amanda Niblett, Director of IT at the University of East London

Strategic benefits for the CRM platform

– Delivering a better experience for learners by simplifying interactions with UEL across all touchpoints.

– Enhancing personalisation of communication with prospective, current and past students

– Integrating with other systems, including telephony and chatbots, to build a clear, 360-degree view of each student and their interaction with UEL.

– Reducing the number of systems across the university to provide an accurate audit trail and increase strength of GDPR compliance.

– Reducing manual intervention using automation, freeing up staff’s time to deliver value to students and other stakeholders.

Dynamics 365 for Alumni Engagement

One of the first teams to begin using Dynamics 365 was the alumni team, who went from pulling disparate data from multiple databases to having a single source of truth about all former students. Some of the benefits that have already been identified include:

– Enhanced open and click

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Why there’s global interest in a geothermal project in Beaver County

October 31, 2020 [email protected]_84 Beaver, County, geothermal, Global, interest, Project

SALT LAKE CITY — Imagine having an unlimited supply of clean, renewable energy at your feet that could revolutionize the nation’s — and even the world’s — approach to turning on the lights in billions of homes and powering up economies across the globe.

A Utah project playing out near a little town of less than 1,500 residents could transform what is only imagination into a formidable reality by using the first-of-its-kind technology that reaches thousands upon thousands of feet underground to harness geothermal resources on a commercial scale.

A drone view overlooks the sight of the FORGE Project in Beaver County that seeks to use the first-of-its-kind technology to tap renewable, geothermal energy deep under the ground.

The possibilities are endless if the technology is proven successful, and the project in Milford, Beaver County, spearheaded by the University of Utah’s Energy & Geoscience Institute is being watched by a lot of counties — Germany, Japan, China, the United Kingdom.

“There’s worldwide interest,” said Joseph Moore, principal investigator of the Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy, or what they call FORGE, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy at a tune of some $200 million.

The project hit a milestone recently with the start of the drilling of one of two deep, deviated wells that ultimately reach depths of 10,800 feet underground and are seeking to capture geothermal energy bubbling at 437 degrees.

The enhanced geothermal technology works like a radiator, if you will.

The well will go vertically to a depth of 6,000 feet and make a 65-degree turn. The total length of the well will be approximately 11,000 feet with the “toe” — or the end of the well — reaching a vertical depth of 8,500 feet.

This well will serve as the conduit of injected water, at 2,000 gallons per minute, to be circulated through the fractures it makes in the hard granite underground rock. The second deviated well will then bring that water up, only to be injected again, over and over.

This is the first project of its kind to tackle this challenge while drilling in hot, hard crystalline granite.

Ultimately the idea is to use this “radiator” process to generate steam to power a turbine to turn it into energy.

This is the first research attempt to harness geothermal energy using such a drastic angle of 65 degrees, Moore said.

“Most geothermal wells are pretty close to vertical and about 30 to 40 degrees.”

While geothermal resources across the United States are being used for energy — Utah ranks third in the country for its geothermal energy output — no one has been quite able to figure out how to make it economically viable on a commercial scale.

That challenge is what is fueling the U.S. Department of Energy’s interest and funding. It picked Utah out of four other competitors across the country to test this technology and to take it to market.

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