Parents can investigate the plethora of school choices available to them in the East Valley — and take in some student talent while they’re at it — today during the Tribune Education Expo.

Technology hiring should hold steady in 2008. Wait, no, it’ll be on the upswing. Oops. Hold that thought. The outlook is actually rather vague.

Art historian or connoisseur I am not. My art knowledge is higgledy-piggledy, occasionally garnered from “White Collar” sitcom character Neal Caffrey — a dashing art thief turned FBI advisor. Rubens, Rembrandt, Monet, and Van Gogh are names I appreciate but don’t know intimately. That changed last week when I experienced “Van Gogh Alive,” a traveling exhibition at the Arizona Science Center.

Microchip Technology, the Chandler-based company that is one of the world’s largest producers of microcontrollers, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in China against a company it accuses of pilfering its intellectual property.

PayPal said Tuesday it will open a technology development center in Scottsdale before year end that within three years will employ more than 400 high-tech professionals.

PayPal said Tuesday it will open a technology development center in Scottsdale before year end that within three years will employ more than 400 high-tech professionals.

Fashion merchandising students at Mesa’s East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) will show off their talents and creativity at the seventh annual EVIT Fashion Show 6 p.m. on Tuesday at 1601 W. Main St.

General Motors will open a new information technology innovation center in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler and begin hiring what will eventually be 1,000 high-tech employees to staff the new location beginning in April, the company announced Wednesday.

A magazine focusing on Arizona's high-tech people, companies and industries will be launched early next year.

Three of today’s hottest business fields — homeland security, energy efficiency and information technology — are being targeted by a Scottsdale-based company that incubates new companies.

BANGALORE, India - Texas chipmaker Silicon Laboratories is collaborating with Indian technology firm Ittiam Systems to design versatile chips for communications gadgets such as modems and TV set-top boxes.

Arizona is hoping to help workers seeking jobs through the creation of a new website by the state Department of Economic Security.

The Chandler Unified School District governing board voted 5-0 Wednesday night to open The Academy at Knox Elementary School beginning with the 2011-12 school year in July. Nine empty classrooms at the school, 700 W. Orchid Lane, will be used for a self-contained gifted program (known as CATs, or Chandler Academically Talented Students) with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, mathematics and fine arts.

Bill Harris is someone who spends most of his time dealing with presidents of the world’s biggest technology companies and Nobel Prize talents in science and engineering.

When it comes to the demand of science and technology jobs, Arizona is one of the top states in the country, the Arizona's Technology Workforce Report states.

Garmin has spent more than four years as a Chandler renter. Now, the company plans to build its own home and become a permanent resident.

Motorola, Intel Corp. and Arizona State University have renewed a partnership designed to produce engineers for the Valley's embedded computing industry.

Mesa, Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council are planning to develop a center for entrepreneurs and researchers to help them translate new technologies into thriving small businesses.

Intel is "making rumblings" about bringing new technologies from Oregon to Chandler. Orbital Sciences takes possession of its 82,000-square-foot expansion next week. The city issued 56 new housing permits in the last two weeks, and several significant solar companies are eyeing property.

Complaints by frustrated police employees have persuaded Scottsdale officials to find a replacement for a records management system they say is difficult to use.

Arizona State University will receive $1.85 million in graduate student fellowship grants from the Science Foundation Arizona this year, the foundation said Friday.

With voter approval of Proposition 301 in November 2000, millions of taxpayer dollars are pouring into science and high-tech research projects at the state's three universities.

Chandler Airpark has landed a technology products and services company that plans to open a sales center there with a workforce of 450 people.

When Google announced plans to set up an engineering center in the Valley in October 2005, politicians and economic developers hailed the move as a major coup that showcased the Valley’s status as a world-class technology center.