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June 30, 2004

Events

JULYJuly 21-25National Urban League2004 Annual ConferenceDetroitE-mail: urbanleagueconference@nul.orgJuly 25-27Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA)Educational Facilities Leadership Forum 2004Marriott Wardman ParkWashington, D.C.Web: www.appa.orgJuly 29-Aug. 1NCEA 2004 National Conference“‘With All Deliberate Speed’ — Social Justice and the Future of Public Education”University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaWeb: www.nceaonline.orgAUGUSTAug. 1-6National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)Academic Advising Summer InstituteHyatt RegencyMilwaukeeWeb: www.nacada.ksu.edu/Events/index.htmAug. 4-62004 Merlot International […]

June 30, 2004

Grants & Awards

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has awarded $49.7 million in grants to 42 baccalaureate and master’s degree institutions in 17 states and Puerto Rico. The four-year grants, ranging from $500,000 to $1.6 million, support a variety of programs to improve undergraduate science. Among the institutions receiving HHMI grants are: Amherst College (Mass.), Florida A&M […]

June 30, 2004

Preventing Catastrophes From Data Loss

Preventing Catastrophes From Data LossWhat’s the worst thing that can happen to your computer? Worse than a hard disk crash, virus infection, spam assault, denial-of-service attack, hacker take-over, fire, flood, or other human, mechanical or natural disaster is a faulty backup when you really need it. If the computer blows up, as long as your […]

June 30, 2004

Cybersecurity Research at Two Schools Gets Boost From AT&T Foundation

Cybersecurity Research at Two Schools Gets Boost From AT&T FoundationWASHINGTONThe AT&T Foundation announced two grant awards totaling $100,000 to support cybersecurity research at the University of Texas at Dallas and Syracuse University. Both universities are leaders in the field of cybersecurity and have been designated as Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by […]

June 30, 2004

Security Software for Individual Personal Computers Released

Security Software for Individual Personal Computers Released DALLASIndividual PC users can now control what happens to the e-mail messages and attachments sent from their computers. A new PC security software product called Essential Security Suite allows individuals to prevent their outbound messages and files from being forwarded, saved, printed or “screen-captured” by the recipient. The Dallas-based […]

June 30, 2004

National Biotechnology Initiative Under Way in Pennsylvania

National Biotechnology Initiative Under Way in PennsylvaniaPITTSBURGHU.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao kicked off the national Biotechnology Worker Training Initiative in Pennsylvania last month at the facilities of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG), a public/private partnership founded by the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, UPMC Health System and the state of Pennsylvania. The […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts

Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts Mobile computing device said to launch new era in personal computingWhen Microsoft chairman Bill Gates presided over the introduction of the Tablet PC and its Microsoft operating system in 2002, he declared the mobile computing device, which features a touchpad screen that recognizes handwriting, to be launching a new era […]

June 30, 2004

The Road to Racial Equality

The Road to Racial EqualityI was born in 1954 just four months after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision outlawed the “separate but equal” doctrine of school segregation. That one fact has shaped my life immeasurably. Howard University, Morris College, Spelman College and what was then called Atlanta University and Tuskegee Institute […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

New Answers to Old Questions

New Answers to Old QuestionsUnderground Codes: Race, Crime and Related FiresBy Katheryn Russell-Brown, New York University Press, 2004, 175 pp., $18.00 paperback, ISBN 0814775411; $55.00, cloth, ISBN 0814775403In Underground Codes, Katheryn Russell-Brown tackles a range of race and crime issues. From outdated research methods that perpetuate stereotypes about African Americans, women and crime to the […]

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