Charter Offers ResearchChannel Programming on VOD.ST. LOUIS -- All of Charter Communications' video on demand-enabled digital customers now have access to ResearchChannel's programming. ResearchChannel, a nonprofit media and technology organization, connects a global audience with the research and academic institutions whose developments, insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures. "Special-interest programming like ResearchChannel is what is so great about VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand ," said Jeff Jay, Charter's vice president of Product Development. "Leading-edge research is now available to Charter customers any time by way of video on demand. Remarkable speakers', researchers' and professors' revolutionary thoughts and discoveries can be accessed any time." The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. , the University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute, (HHMI), nonprofit medical research organization founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes and largly funded from proceeds of the 1984–85 sale of Hughes Aircraft. Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md. are just a few of the world-renowned institutions that participate in ResearchChannel and whose programs will be featured on Charter VOD. Charter has launched ResearchChannel to digital customers in all of its VOD-enabled service areas throughout the country. The entire ResearchChannel video library -- over 3,000 titles -- is available online at www.researchchannel.org. "The goal of the world-class institutions that are part of ResearchChannel is to share research and scientific thinking on a panoply pan·o·ply n. pl. pan·o·plies 1. A splendid or striking array: a panoply of colorful flags. See Synonyms at display. 2. of subjects with as wide an audience as possible. Charter VOD brings this unique opportunity to a new audience. Through lectures, interviews and documentaries, viewers will hear firsthand, directly from researchers at leading institutions," said Amy Philipson, executive director of ResearchChannel. One of the initial programs available on demand is the University of Virginia's "Faith, Certainty, and the Presidency of George W. Bush The Presidency of George W. Bush, also known as the George W. Bush Administration, began on his inauguration on January 20, 2001 as the 43rd and current President of the United States of America. The oldest son of former United States President George H. W. Bush, George W. ," in which author and journalist Ron Suskind unravels mysteries of the Bush administration. Another is "New Tests, New Treatments, Better Outcomes for Patients with Colorectal Cancer," from Stanford University Medical Center Stanford University Medical Center (Stanford Hospital & Clinics) is one of four hospitals affiliated with Stanford University and Stanford University School of Medicine, along with the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, and Santa , which explains significant gains in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer. VOD viewers will also be able to watch legendary CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. anchorman Walter Cronkite in "A Conversation with Walter Cronkite," produced by the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . Another program is "Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look," in which Jeff Dean talks about the importance of search on the Internet and the challenges it poses in computer science. To find out more about Charter, visit www.charter.com. Learn more about ResearchChannel at www.researchchannel.org. |
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