SKOKIE, IL–(Marketwire -02/02/12)- NanoProfessor®, a division of NanoInk®, Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today a partnership with City Colleges of Chicago in which two City Colleges students will complete a specially designed “Introduction to Nanotechnology” course followed by a paid summer internship program working in the Skokie-based NanoProfessor labs.

It marks the first step by City Colleges to prepare students for careers in the growing field of nanotechnology. During the course of the program, the selected students will receive valuable hands-on training and experience with instrumentation used in the nanotech industry that could directly lead to a nano-focused job following their graduation.

“Our partnership with NanoProfessor will offer our students an unprecedented opportunity to build valuable technical skills and gain real-world experience in the growing nanotechnology industry,” said Cheryl L. Hyman, chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago. “The NanoProfessor internship is a great start and we look forward to expanding this and other key industry relationships that allow us to offer our students cutting-edge education to prepare them to launch careers in high-demand fields.”

The internship program is part of the recently announced Colleges to Careers program, which is a partnership between City Colleges of Chicago and industry leaders to fill the skills gap and ensure residents can win the jobs of today and tomorrow.

“We are very excited to partner with City Colleges of Chicago and help meet Mayor Emanuel's goal of matching education and training with 21st century careers,” said Dean Hart, chief commercial officer at NanoInk. “Moving forward, we hope to expand the program to reach even more students at City Colleges of Chicago.”

Mike Davis, associate vice chancellor for Science Technology Engineering and Math at City Colleges, has been a strong advocate for the tie between classroom experience and workplace skills. “Experiences like this are true game changers. Once you see what the larger world has to offer, classes have a whole new meaning.”

Significant investment in nanotechnology research over the past decade is providing innovations and breakthroughs in many industries including biotechnology, electronics, alternative energy and medicine. As these innovations evolve into commercially viable products, companies need a workforce with the knowledge and skill of working at the nanoscale in order to fully commercialize their products and become successful entities. Unfortunately, many companies go wanting as there is a significant global gap between the estimated 400,000 researchers in nanotechnology today and the 6 million nano-savvy workers projected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be needed globally by 2012. The need for nanoscience education for undergraduate students is not only growing but also immediate.

City Colleges students wishing to apply for the NanoProfessor internship need to submit a resume, cover letter, transcripts (official or unofficial), and a letter of recommendation from a professor by Friday, February 10. Students must be a current City Colleges student with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher and have already completed Chemistry 201 or higher, Math 143 or higher, Physics 221 or higher and English 101. More information can be found at www.ccc.edu/internships.

NanoInk, NanoProfessor, and the NanoProfessor logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NanoInk, Inc.

About the NanoProfessor® Nanoscience Education Program
The NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program aims to advance the field of nanoscience and address the growing need for a skilled workforce of nanotechnologists. The NanoProfessor Program, including instruments, an expert-driven curriculum, and student/teacher support materials, is available for community colleges, technical institutes, and universities worldwide. More information is available at www.NanoProfessor.net or (847)679-NANO(6266). You can also follow NanoProfessor on Facebook® at www.facebook.com/pages/NanoProfessorTM/367787368082.

About the City Colleges of Chicago
The City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) is the largest community college system in Illinois and one of the largest in the nation, with 5,800 faculty and staff serving 120,000 students annually at seven colleges and seven satellite sites city-wide. The City Colleges of Chicago is in the midst of a Reinvention, a collaborative effort to review and revise CCC programs and practices to ensure students leave CCC college-ready, career-ready and prepared to pursue their life's goals.

The City Colleges of Chicago includes seven colleges: Richard J. Daley College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Harry S Truman College, Harold Washington College and Wilbur Wright College. The system also oversees the Washburne Culinary Institute, the French Pastry School, two restaurants, five Child Development Centers, the Center for Distance Learning, the Workforce Institute, the public broadcast station WYCC-TV Channel 20 and radio station WKKC-FM 89.3. For more information about City Colleges of Chicago, call: (773)COLLEGE or visit www.ccc.edu.

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AMSTERDAM, February 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —

150 Russian research institutes involved in long-term collaboration

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced it has reached an agreement with the Russian Foundation of Basic Research (RFBR) to provide 150 Russian research institutes with access to SciVerse ScienceDirect as well as trial access to SciVerse Scopus. This one-year license agreement is part of a formal collaboration program between Elsevier and RFBR until 2014.

Academician Prof. Vladislav Panchenko, Chairman of the RFBR Board, said of the agreement, “Access to up-to-date scientific information is a necessary element for researchers in their workflow. That is why we are glad to see us collaborate so closely with Elsevier, providing our scientists with access to a quarter of the world's scientific research. We are happy for this continuous and mutually beneficial cooperation. We hope that together we will drive Russian science to the top of global scientific scene.”

Igor Osipov, PhD, Elsevier Regional Director for Russia and Belarus added, “RFBR and its leadership has become a true partner to us – we organize joint events, run training programs across the country and strive to support and reward Russian researchers with the best available content and solutions. With this new agreement, our joint work in bringing best Russian science to the international arena and supporting Russian government efforts in building better and efficient research shall be continued in the years to come.”

About the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

The Russian Foundation for Basic Research is a self-governing foundation existing in the form of a federal institution run under the jurisdiction of the government of the Russian Federation. Its main goal is to provide support and assistance to research work in all areas of fundamental science on a competitive basis and which is called upon to build new relationships between scientists and the state. The foundation distributes federal funding to the most advanced research projects originating both from Russian universities as well as from institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The RFBR is part of G8 scientific foundations family and enjoys close cooperation ties with all key funding bodies across the globe: from North America to EU, China and Japan. Financing refereed projects across disciplines, key attention is given to physics, technology and nano-technology, medicine, various interdisciplinary studies, which Russian government identified as priority in R&D development until 2020.

About the Elsevier SciVerse Suite

The SciVerse® suite of search and discovery offerings provides the global research community access to a constantly expanding universe of content and solutions which can now be accessed in one platform. The suite currently includes SciVerse ScienceDirect®, the world's largest source of peer-reviewed content containing more than 10 million articles, and SciVerse Scopus®, an abstract and citation database containing 41 million records, 70% with abstracts and nearly 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. The platform also includes SciVerse Hub which enables researchers to perform a single search across all of the SciVerse content as well as targeted web content with results ranked by relevancy and without duplication. Applications and Developer Network allow the scientific community to build, find and use applications that enhance the SciVerse research experience.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include SciVerse® ScienceDirect®, SciVerse® Scopus®, Reaxys®, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal® suite and MEDai's Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world-leading publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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SKOKIE, IL–(Marketwire -01/30/12)- NanoProfessor®, a division of NanoInk®, Inc. focused on nanotechnology education, announced today that Wheeling High School, which is a recognized Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education, took the first step to further advance its stellar science education program by attending a three-day NanoCamp at NanoProfessor's facilities. During the three-day camp, faculty from Wheeling's science department learned more about nanotechnology and gained hands-on experience working with the cutting-edge nano-focused instrumentation included within the NanoProfessor Program.

“Nanotechnology is breaking new ground in a several fields including chemistry, biology, physics, material and environmental sciences, engineering, and medicine,” said Dr. Lazaro Lopez, principal of Wheeling High School. “We are extremely pleased with NanoProfessor for providing this opportunity for our teachers and are looking forward to working with them to determine how the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program can be applied in our high school setting, with the ultimate goal of providing our students with knowledge and experience in nanotechnology beginning their freshman year.”

The three-day NanoCamp was held at NanoInk's corporate office in Skokie from Thursday, January 19th to Monday, January 23rd. Attending the NanoCamp were Frank Caballero, a biology teacher; Karen Linzmeier, a chemistry teacher; and Lisa Del Muro, a physics and environmental science teacher.

“We received an introduction to nanoscience and conducted hands-on training with NanoInk's NLP 2000, which enabled us to make structures at the nanoscale on a desktop system, something that is usually only able to be done in a multi-million dollar cleanroom,” said Frank Caballero. “We are very excited to take what we've learned back to the classroom. Exposure to these advances in science will interest students pursuing careers in medicine, scientific research, engineering, and others.”

“We are honored to have Wheeling High School, a recognized leader in high school science education, interested in working with NanoProfessor to define how the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program can be implemented throughout a high school science curriculum,” said Dean Hart, chief commercial officer at NanoInk. “As nano-based products continue to emerge in the marketplace, the demand for nano savvy employees will rise. Progressive schools like Wheeling and visionary leaders like Dr. Lazaro Lopez are going to help meet that workforce demand by preparing their students for exciting careers in the growing nanotechnology industry.”

The NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program aims to expand hands-on nanotechnology education from the cleanrooms of research-based universities to undergraduate classrooms. The program alternates between classroom lectures and hands-on lab work and includes a textbook authored by leading nanotechnology experts, covering the topics of Nanotechnology Basics, Nanophysics, Nanochemistry, Nanobiology, and Environmental, Health, & Safety perspectives on nanotechnology.

In conducting the hands-on lab experiments, students learn the fundamentals for building custom-engineered nanoscale structures while working with state-of-the-art equipment including NanoInk's NLP 2000 Desktop NanoFabrication System, a student-friendly atomic force microscope (AFM), a best-of-class fluorescence microscope, an advanced nanoparticle characterization instrument, and various chemical and biological materials used today within current and emerging nanotechnology applications.

Wheeling High School is a public, four-year comprehensive high school with a STEM focus that opened in 1964 and graduated its first class in 1966. It serves Wheeling and sections of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Mount Prospect, Northbrook, and Prospect Heights and is one of the six schools in Township High School District 214. In the fall of 2010, Wheeling High School was officially rededicated as a STEM school and admitted as an institutional member of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science, and Technology — one of only three in Illinois. More information is available at: http://whs.d214.org.

About the NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program
The NanoProfessor Nanoscience Education Program aims to advance the field of nanoscience and address the growing need for a skilled workforce of nanotechnologists. The NanoProfessor Program, including instruments, an expert-driven curriculum, and student/teacher support materials, is available for high schools, community colleges, technical institutes, and universities worldwide. More information is available at www.NanoProfessor.net or 847-679-NANO (6266). You can also follow NanoProfessor on Facebook® at www.facebook.com/pages/NanoProfessorTM/367787368082.

NanoInk, NanoProfessor, and the NanoProfessor logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NanoInk, Inc.

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