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Vanderbilt Professor Uses Haunted House to Help Kids Face Fears
In the lab, psychology professor David Zald studies how fast adults react to fear. At his home this time of year, he watches kids adjust to it.
October 30, 2007
Sports
Ex-Duquesne Student Pleads Guilty in Basketball Player Shooting Case
PITTSBURGH A former Duquesne University student pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that she helped her armed friends get into a school dance the night five basketball players were shot and wounded.
October 30, 2007
HBCUs
University of Nevada, Reno Prof Loses Flash Drive with Students’ Personal Information
RENO Nev. A University of Nevada, Reno professor has lost a flash drive that contains the names and Social Security numbers of 16,000 current and former students, according to school officials.
October 30, 2007
Students
Va. Tech Distributes $8.5M in Donations for Shooting Victims, Families of Those Killed
BLACKSBURG Va. Virginia Tech has distributed more than $8.5 million in donations to aid victims of the mass killings on campus in April, school leaders said Tuesday.
October 30, 2007
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N.D. Lawmakers Give Final Approval for ‘Excellence’ Grants To Four Colleges
BISMARCK N.D. State lawmakers have given final approval for $10 million in grants to four North Dakota colleges.
October 30, 2007
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Mass. Gov. Patrick Makes Pitch for $1 Billion, 10-year Biotech Initiative
BOSTON Gov. Deval Patrick testified Tuesday that Massachusetts was on the verge of losing its grip on a key industry if lawmakers fail to act on his 10-year, $1 billion life sciences initiative.
October 30, 2007
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Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority Quietly Ends Life Sciences Loan Benefits
JEFFERSON CITY Mo. Missouri’s student loan authority has quietly ended a program launched with fanfare three years ago to entice the state’s math and science graduates to work in the life sciences by forgiving part of their student loans.
October 30, 2007
Community Colleges
Hamilton College and Kaplan University Merge
DES MOINES Iowa Kaplan Inc., which owns Hamilton College and Kaplan University said Tuesday the two institutions have merged.
October 30, 2007
Sports
Assistant Coach at Center of Indiana U. Recruit Calls Case Resigns
INDIANAPOLIS Indiana assistant Rob Senderoff, the focus of an investigation into improper telephone calls to recruits that already has cost the Hoosiers one basketball scholarship and coach Kelvin Sampson a $500,000 pay raise, resigned Tuesday.
October 30, 2007
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Florida A&M Law School Scandal Could Turn Up at Fen-phen Trial
LOUISVILLE Ky. A $1 million endowed chair at Florida A&M Law school could become central to the trial of three Kentucky lawyers on wire fraud charges that they bilked clients out of millions in a settlement over the diet drug fen-phen.
October 30, 2007
Students
Kids of Illegal Immigrants Live in Fear But Pursue American Dream
SPOKANE Wash. A teenage girl studying entrepreneurship at Washington State University would be on her way to realizing the American Dream, except she is not American.
October 30, 2007
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Some College-Access Programs Lose Funding
The inspector general is investigating allegations that Education Department scoring errors may have resulted in denied grant renewals.
October 30, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Colorado College Teaches One Class at a Time
Colorado College is one of just a handful of places where students take one course at a time, giving it their full attention for three and a half weeks.
October 30, 2007
LGBTQ+
Perspectives: Hanging Nooses, Hate Pose a National Health Risk
Addressing, preventing and eradicating hate is not just a “Black issue,” it is a human rights issue, says this group of psychology faculty from Pepperdine University. If we, as a nation, fail to address it, we are at risk for regression, for descending into a previous state of unhealthy functioning. Choice and free will are important concepts in mental health. What is our will as a nation? Do we choose to ignore these signs of impending illness and let the sickness of racism ravage the soul of our nation?
October 30, 2007
Latinx
New Mexico Attorney General Investigating Possible Hate Crime at UNM
The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office is looking into whether a student violated any hate crime laws by allegedly posting hateful messages against Hispanics on the Internet following the desecration of the Mexican flag at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
October 29, 2007
Students
Cultural and Linguistic Ambidexterity
It might sound like a no-brainer that being bilingual or multilingual helps students planning to enter engineering and just about any other career. But it is certainly true and is becoming more important as the economies of nations become more intertwined. What’s more, being able to go beyond mere language ability and understand cultural distinctions are extra advantages. The University of Texas at El Paso seeks to do just that for its students.
October 29, 2007
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Corinthian Colleges Predicts 2nd-quarter Revenue will Beat Wall Street Expectations
SANTA ANA Calif. Corinthian Colleges Inc. predicted second-quarter revenue will beat Wall Street expectations on Tuesday and raised its fiscal year 2008 earnings and revenue outlook.
October 29, 2007
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Neil Armstrong Helps Dedicate Engineering Hall Named After Him
WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. Although he typically shuns attention, former astronaut Neil Armstrong addressed a crowd at Saturday’s wind-swept dedication of a new engineering building named for him at Purdue University, his alma mater.
October 29, 2007
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