Technology January 2019 Premium

Doctor on Demand

Marrying AI Technology To Personalized Medical Care

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Mary Ann Cooper

Technology January 2019 Premium

The Rise Of The Machines

How AI Is Changing Higher Education For The Better…Or Worse It’s not a huge leap to get to a place where AI is deciding who should be doctors or lawyers or shouldn’t pursue professional careers. And since AI make suggestions that mirror students’ current circumstances and preferences, it flies in the face of and downplays the importance of the proactive effort institutions routinely make to bring diversity and variety to campus life.

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Mary Ann Cooper

Technology January 2019 Premium

Latin American And Latino STEM Education

Technology Program Helps Latinos (And All) Learn STEM

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Michelle Adam

Technology January 2019

NMSU Receives $350K For VR Lab

La Cruces-based Electronic Caregiver is giving two New Mexico State University professors $350,000 to establish an augmented and virtual reality laboratory.

Technology December 2018

Musk Foundation Donating To Flint Schools

The Elon Musk Foundation is donating about $424,000 to schools in Flint, Michigan. The money will be going towards laptops for seventh and eighth graders in the school district.

Technology December 2018

UGA’s New Data Science Degree Program

The University of Georgia has a new degree program that trains undergraduates at the interface of statistics and computer science to meet the growing demand for data scientists.

Technology December 2018

Apple To Build $1B Campus In Austin

Apple is expanding its operations with several large projects. Topping the list is a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas.

Technology December 2018

Hackers Steal $800K From College

Hackers used an infected email to steal $800,000 from Cape Cod Community College. The hackers’ malware targeted the school’s financial transactions.

Technology December 2018

Facebook Expands Local Feature

The “Today In” feature on Facebook is being expanded to include school announcements, road closures, missing-person alerts, local news, local information and crime reports.

Technology November 2018

Amazon's New Goal: Teach 10 Million Kids A Year To Code

Amazon is launching a new program with the goal to teach more than 10 million students a year about coding in the hopes of encouraging more Hispanic, black and female students to study computer science. Amazon has said it will pay for initiatives including teacher training and summer camps.

Technology October 2018

Sony Partners With 11 Higher Education Institutions

Sony Electronics is partnering with 11 higher education institutions to create opportunities through technology solutions and active-learning practices. The initiative is designed to incorporate the role technology plays in teaching and learning. Members of the Future Learning Collaborative are working with Sony designers and researchers to develop and enable classroom technologies to execute more effective teaching methods.

Technology September 2018 Premium

University Study Finds Science Achievement Gaps Start Early – In Kindergarten

On average, black students and Hispanic students performed significantly lower than white students on the science achievement tests in kindergarten. Approximately 41 percent of black students and 49 percent of Hispanic students scored in the bottom 25 percent. In comparison, only 12 percent of white students were in this category.