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Released: 28-Jan-2020 12:00 PM EST
How Active Shooter Incidents Off Campus Lead to Guns on Campus
New York University

A new study finds that active shooter incidents off campus and politics are key factors that led state legislators to pass laws allowing concealed weapons on college and university campuses between 2004 and 2016.

Released: 28-Jan-2020 9:55 AM EST
Binghamton University launches on-site broadcast studio to connect with media outlets worldwide
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Binghamton University now offers the ability to connect with global media outlets direct from campus, via a newly installed VideoLink ReadyCam® broadcast studio.

Released: 27-Jan-2020 3:55 PM EST
UA Little Rock alum Wylie Cavin donates $269,000 for Bowen law school scholarships
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

A graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law is hoping his gift of nearly $270,000 will help other Arkansas law students complete their education. Wylie Cavin III, a 1986 graduate of the William H. Bowen School of Law, has donated $269,000 to the law school.

Released: 27-Jan-2020 2:25 PM EST
Working Together to Close the Equity Gap
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office

Faculty and staff across the California State University are working together to narrow the academic equity gap with help from an innovative professional development program.

Released: 23-Jan-2020 12:35 PM EST
St. Mary’s College Professor Jennifer Cognard-Black Winner of the $250,000 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching
St. Mary's College of Maryland

Baylor University has named Jennifer Cognard-Black, professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, as the 2020 recipient of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. Awarded biennially, The Cherry Award is a prestigious national teaching award – with the single, largest monetary reward of $250,000 presented by a college or university to an individual for exceptional teaching. The award program is designed to honor great teachers, stimulate discussion in the academy about the value of teaching and encourage departments and institutions to recognize their own great teachers.

Released: 23-Jan-2020 2:05 AM EST
Tick-tock! The countdown is on for back-to-school sleep routines
University of South Australia

With less that a week to go until the start of a new school year, parents are preparing themselves for the inevitable back-to-school rush. But amid the dash for backpacks, books and last-minute haircuts, children’s sleep routines must also be high on the agenda if parents want to start kids off on the right foot.

   
Released: 21-Jan-2020 6:15 PM EST
Mentoring Madness Impacts Record 3,000 Students Across Adirondacks
CFES Brilliant Pathways

The largest single-day mentoring event in the history of the Adirondacks saw over 100 volunteers from area colleges, hospitals, businesses and law enforcement travel to schools to share their own stories and offer career advice to thousands of young people

Released: 17-Jan-2020 12:15 AM EST
University of Illinois College of Medicine decreases tuition
University of Illinois Chicago

The University of Illinois College of Medicine will reduce its tuition rates for all students, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year. The decision was approved today by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

   
Released: 14-Jan-2020 3:55 PM EST
UTEP Receives $1M to Develop System to Increase Number of Students Who Pursue Graduate Engineering Studies
University of Texas at El Paso

The University of Texas at El Paso’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was awarded $1 million from the National Science Foundation to help low-income, academically talented undergraduate students in engineering successfully advance to graduate studies.

Released: 14-Jan-2020 10:50 AM EST
Rush’s College of Nursing Vaults to No. 1 in U.S. News’ Online Program Rankings
RUSH

Rush University College of Nursing rose to the No. 1 spot among 183 schools eligible for the graduate nursing programs category in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Online Programs list released today. Distance learning plays a key role in helping to solve the U.S.’s nursing shortage as advanced practice nurses, functioning in both inpatient and outpatient settings, can increase accessibility to high quality and cost-effective care. This is particularly true for underserved rural and urban populations.

Released: 14-Jan-2020 10:15 AM EST
UNC Charlotte Opens the Carolinas' First Interdisciplinary School of Data Science
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

UNC Charlotte has opened the Carolinas' first School of Data Science. The interdisciplinary school allows UNC Charlotte to expand on its programs in the field and open up the growing and diverse field of data science to students with varied career interests.

   
Released: 14-Jan-2020 8:40 AM EST
Putting tech to the test: HU launches User Experience Center
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Harrisburg University just opened a User Experience Center of its own, dubbed the HU-UXC for short, where students will develop UX testing, product development, project management, and marketing skills on real-world projects.

Released: 13-Jan-2020 3:20 PM EST
Wayne State University to address urgent need for STEM educators
Wayne State University Division of Research

Through support from the U.S. Department of Education, Wayne State University announced it is launching the Metro Detroit Teaching Residency for Urban Excellence (TRUE) Project, an innovative multi-sector partnership that aims to positively impact student learning, address the critical shortage of STEM teachers, and support the region’s workforce development. The $2.5 million project will target recent graduates and mid-career professionals with STEM expertise in the metro Detroit region, especially those in the automotive and technology industries who may be impacted by recent and planned plant closures.

   
Released: 10-Jan-2020 1:25 PM EST
Cornell develops educational toolkit for testing e-cigarettes
Cornell University

To complement the wide range of information on the potential dangers of vaping, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has developed a new learning module for high school classrooms that encourages students to directly test the effects of e-cigarette vapor on living cells.

   
Released: 9-Jan-2020 3:45 PM EST
University of Utah selects Rodney Chatman as new chief of police at the Department of Public Safety
University of Utah

The University of Utah has selected Rodney Chatman as the new chief of police of the Department of Public Safety. Chatman, currently executive director of public safety and chief of police at the University of Dayton in Ohio, will assume his role on Feb. 17, 2020. He will report to Marlon C. Lynch, the U’s newly hired chief safety officer.

   
Released: 8-Jan-2020 5:05 PM EST
Researchers Detail Academic Scholarships Offered by E-Cigarette Entities
University of North Carolina School of Medicine

UNC School of Medicine researchers conducted a systematic online review and found 21 vaping-related companies, including, websites, that promoted 40 scholarships to high school and college students in 2018 across the United States.

Released: 8-Jan-2020 12:20 PM EST
Study highlights how American universities may help bridge social divide between international, domestic students
University at Buffalo

Self-esteem is a valuable resource for undergraduate international students trying to socialize with their domestic counterparts at American universities, but new research by a University at Buffalo psychologist suggests that while self-esteem predicts better socialization with domestic students, it is curiously unrelated to how international students socialize with other internationals.

Released: 7-Jan-2020 12:55 PM EST
UTEP's Dr. Skateboard Pictures Novel Way to Teach
University of Texas at El Paso

William Robertson, Ph.D., professor of teacher education, has written a 24-page “graphic novel,” or comic book, to give teachers another tool to demonstrate principles of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Released: 7-Jan-2020 12:20 PM EST
From Pack Line to the Bottom Line: UVA Basketball Provides Lessons in Darden-Led Exec Ed Program
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

After adding to his considerable coaching legacy by leading the Virginia Cavaliers to the 2019 NCAA men’s basketball championship, Tony Bennett’s patented Pack Line defense and Five Pillars of the Cavalier program are the envy of the college basketball world.



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