Associated PressLatinxGreen MBAs seek to balance profit and planetOAKLAND Calif. Business professor John Stayton remembers when eyes would start rolling at the idea of a “green MBA.”September 22, 2007HomeAs Ahmadinejad heads for NYC, protesters head for ColumbiaNEW YORK Critics of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started protesting before the hardline leader even made his scheduled arrival in New York for a couple of planned speeches at a high-profile university and the United Nations that have aroused a storm of opposition.September 22, 2007HealthMoney in hand and facilities ready, researchers begin stem cell workHARTFORD Conn. David Rowe says a special breed of mice he is developing at the University of Connecticut Health Center may one day help reveal new treatments for severe limb injuries, like the ones U.S. troops are returning with from Iraq.September 22, 2007HomeSchool at center of civil rights battle celebrates 75 yearsNEW MARKET Tenn. The little school tucked away in the east Tennessee mountains may have faded from the public spotlight, but it was once at the center of the struggle for civil rights.September 22, 2007HomeOhio University trains school’s first SWAT teamATHENS Ohio A squad of police officers from Ohio University has completed training to become the school’s first certified SWAT team, filling a gap the department’s chief said became clear after a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.September 22, 2007HomeOregon’s Willamette University hires its first archivistSALEM Ore. Amid the old yearbooks, senior theses, reel-to-reel tapes and the plastic seal balancing a gold dollar sign on its nose, Mary McKay is in her element.September 22, 2007HomeUniversity of Wyoming energy school may have Gillette presenceGILLETTE Wyo. University of Wyoming officials are interested in establishing a research partnership between the new School of Energy Resources and Gillette College.September 22, 2007Asian American Pacific IslanderUniversity of Central Arkansas planning Chinese studies programCONWAY Ark. A Chinese studies program involving several academic fields is planned at the University of Central Arkansas, paid for in part with a federal grant, university officials say.September 22, 2007HomeSoftware design research adds new perspective to high-tech gender gapSEATTLE For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.September 22, 2007StudentsIowa universities market, benefit from school credit cardsDES MOINES Iowa Iowa’s two biggest public universities are helping to market credit cards to their students, an arrangement that generates millions of dollars for the schools’ alumni organizations.September 22, 2007Previous PagePage 395 of 569Next Page