Global
January 2018
Sugar Bowl Score No. 4 Alabama Dominates No. 1 Clemson 24-6
The University of Alabama's Crimson Tide beat the Clemson University's Tigers at the Sugar Bowl by a score of 24-6.
The University of Alabama's Crimson Tide beat the Clemson University's Tigers at the Sugar Bowl by a score of 24-6.
The University of Florida has received an $8.7 million grant aimed at research that will reduce hunger in Africa. The school said the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund hunger research over five years at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. The researchers will focus on developing more healthy feed for livestock used by poor farmers in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, and creating more environmentally friendly farming methods.
University of Southern California officials say students have been sickened by the gastrointestinal illness norovirus in a number of campus residence halls.
As part of Bronx Community College’s observance of "November is CUNY Month," the annual celebration of The City University of New York, BCC is hosting a formal ribbon cutting ceremony for its extensively renovated Quadrangle. Officials from across the city and state will be in attendance.
An acclaimed illustrator of children's books is donating her collection of artwork, manuscripts and papers to the University of South Carolina Libraries. Selections from the collection by illustrator Anita Lobel are now on display at the Thomas Cooper Library on the university's Columbia campus. Elizabeth Suddeth, the director of the Library's department of rare books, is scheduled to discuss Lobel's works on Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Thomas Cooper Library.
Following successful exhibitions in Havana, Cuba, and Los Angeles, California, El Acercamiento/The Approach brings its transnational collaboration to Miami, Florida. Uniting American and Cuban artists to investigate the past, present and possible futures of Cuba-U.S. relations, an evening of performances will take place at Miami's Centro Cultural Español. Coinciding with For El Acercamiento/The Approach, events in Havana, Los Angeles and Miami challenge Cuban and American artists to envision possible futures between the two countries.
Officials at a Hudson Valley university say eight members of the school's intercollegiate swimming program have come down with the mumps. Health officials with the State University of New York at New Paltz confirmed the mumps cases in a letter sent on Monday evening to users of the school's athletic facilities. Officials say all swim practices and workouts have been suspended "out of an abundance of caution" to see if anyone else has the mumps.
The PhD Project, an award-winning program to create diversity in management, is proud to announce that PhD Project professor, Cinthia Satornino, has been invited by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics (Initiative) and its President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, to participate in Fulfilling America’s Future: Latinas in the U.S. summit. The summit took place on Friday, October 21, 2016 at the White House. Dr. Satornino, an assistant professor of marketing at Northeastern University, was a panelist during the Latinas in Education: Reaching Our Full Potential session.
Cal State Fullerton celebrates Día de los Muertos — a Mexican holiday to remember friends and family members who have died — with two days of performances, arts and crafts, face painting and food. The Nov. 1-2 events are free and open to the public.
A south Louisiana university says its distributing $65,000 to help 110 of its students overcome financial hardships brought on by the August floods. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette made the announcement in a Monday news release. DeWayne Bowie, vice president for Enrollment Management at ULL, says each qualified student will receive at least $500 applied toward their tuition or other educational expenses.
With their eyes on the first-place Pumpkin Launch trophy, the members of Cal State Fullerton's all-female student engineering team rolled up their sleeves to build a new launcher for the Saturday, Nov. 5, competition in hopes of becoming two-time champs before thousands of cheering spectators. The student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has been a top finisher four times in the Pumpkin Launch, winning first place in 2013. For this year's competition, the student engineers built a "ballista" launcher, which resembles a medieval crossbow.
The University of Utah is launching a $1.6 million project to determine the feasibility of turning coal into carbon fiber, a material used in manufacturing of skis, cars and planes. University chemical engineering professor Eric Eddings announced the effort on Wednesday, saying finding a new way to use coal would be both energy and economy friendly.
Delaware Valley University’s enrollment for fall 2016 is the highest it has ever been in the history of the institution. This fall, there are 2,376 total undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the University, a record-breaking number for the 120-year-old institution. Total fall enrollment is 5 percent higher than it was last year and 17 percent higher than it was in 2014.
Missouri State University has banned the recreational and unauthorized use of unmanned drones on its campuses. University attorney Jeff Mitchell said the policy was shaped by Federal Aviation Administration guidance and was designed to ensure the safety and privacy of people on the university's Springfield, Mountain Grove and West Plains campuses.
El Centro College welding students, who are housed at the Dallas County Community College District’s Bill J. Priest Institute for Economic Development, hope to capitalize on that demand for trained welders. Byron Zarrabi, their welding instructor, said just about every industry uses welding, and that fact makes the trade “recession resistant.”