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April 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 4   How does learning take place in a project-based organization like NASA?

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 4   Keeping up with team members working in different locations is a common difficulty on virtual teams, according to a study by Microsoft.

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 4   Academy Director Ed Dr. Hoffman addressed the Project Management Institute’s Global Corporate Council on talent management.

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 4   Christine Williams, Director of NASA’s Systems Engineering Leadership Development Program (SELDP), has joined the Academy team.

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 4   The Academy featured Acting Administrator Chris Scolese and NASA Chief Engineer Mike Ryschkewitsch in its first “Masters with Masters” session.

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 4   Brindley McGowan, Manager of Technical Education and Training at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), received the Space Flight Awareness Award in March 2009.

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 4   The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report that assessed four alternative scenarios to NASA’s plans for the future.

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2, Issue 4   On April 9, 1984, astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-41C successfully captured the ailing Solar Maximum spacecraft, serviced it on orbit, and released it back into operation.

April 30, 2009 Vol. 2 Issue 4   There is an empirically sound reason that NASA project life cycle reviews should bring together diverse groups of thinkers: there is strength in cognitive diversity, according to Scott E. Page.