Marketplace Articles

Physicists increase thermoelectric efficiency

By Michael O'Brien / Marketplace Editor
Today you can drive your car down Commonwealth Avenue as your vehicle emits tons of exhaust into the atmosphere, continuing humanity's onslaught on the earth's environment. In the future, due to recent efforts by a joint research team from Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that exhaust might be used to power your car's battery. In more technical terms, these researchers have demonstrated a huge increase in thermoelectric efficiency - effectively introducing a new standard for the creation and use of heating, cooling, and power. Though the technology has been around for years, this specific advancement is important because it has paved the way for commercial application - ranging from refrigerators and air conditioners to solar technology to automobiles to semiconductors. The primary ramifications are that the products will be cleaner and will run more efficiently.

SIFE and Entrepreneur Society host fair

By Alex Lindahl
Entrepreneur Fair: Students in Free Enterprise and the Entrepreneur Society will be hosting Boston College's first Entrepreneur Fair on Saturday, March 29 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Lynch Conference Room in Fulton Hall. The event will showcase 17 start-ups from Boston College and the surrounding Boston area to provide Generation Y entrepreneurs an opportunity to display their creativity, innovativeness, and passion for building businesses and ideas.

Market Report: JPMorgan raises BearStearns bid

By Matt Struzziero / Heights Senior Staff
On Monday, JPMorgan raised its initial bid of $2 per share for struggling investment bank Bear Stearns to $10 per share. By increasing the bid, JPMorgan quelled any thought of a shareholder revolt, which threatened to jeopardize the deal and send Bear Stearns into bankruptcy.

Tech Journal: The broadcasting industry's next step

By Matt Sbrogna
On Feb. 17, 2009 the most dramatic change since the introduction of color TV will take place in the broadcasting industry. At exactly midnight, all U.S. television stations will stop broadcasting in analog and will only offer digital broadcasting. This switch will not affect any TVs connected to a digital source such as Comcast or DirecTV.

Entrepreneurial Edge: MAP Boston: Time to discover your city

By Alex Lindahl
It feels like the majority of Generation Y startups live on the Internet, which isn't surprising due to the relatively low entry and operating costs that are required to get going. Just look at the number of Facebook applications - a simple service through a social network and then an expanded version on a separate Web site later on down the line.

Election Central: Does the media influence the presidential race?

By Joshua Darr
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are not the only players in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Members of the national media have ventured into uncharted territory along with the candidates, and their decisions about what to print and how to cover the race are tremendously influential.