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Va. Tech affiliate boosts staffing to find new inventions, more royalties

BLACKSBURG Va. A nonprofit Virginia Tech affiliate that helps patent, protect and market faculty and student inventions is boosting its staffing, and officials hope that will increase the number of licensed inventions and generate more revenue.

July 22, 2007

University sets lure to find depths of online security threats

EVANSVILLE Ind. The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. “Check this out!” it read, then listed a Web address.

July 22, 2007

Romney Touts Immigration to Hispanics

WASHINGTON Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney praised the virtues of faith, family values and immigration as he courted Hispanic voters.

July 22, 2007

Langston named in student loan inquiry

OKLAHOMA CITY Langston University officials say they do not have details of an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office that found that a Langston financial aid officer accepted perks from a student loan company before advocating the lender on a preferred list for students.

July 22, 2007

FAMU QB Love suspended for 3 games

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida A&M football coach Rubin Carter has suspended redshirt freshman quarterback Robert Love for the first three games of the season for violation of team standards.

July 22, 2007

38 opposition politicians and activists released after Ethiopian government pardon

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia Ethiopia freed 38 opposition members following international condemnation of the two-year case and the country’s history of human rights abuses.

July 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

More than 200 Florida A&M employees don’t get paychecks

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida A&M University plans to investigate why 242 employees did not receive paychecks this week, the school’s president said.

July 22, 2007

Miles College Has Raised $19 Million for Expansion

BIRMINGHAM Ala. Historically black Miles College has raised $19 million for an expansion that would double the size of its Fairfield campus.

July 22, 2007

Native Americans

Recommendation backs Cherokee opposition to federal review

MUSKOGEE Okla. A federal official has recommended that a Cherokee Nation vote to remove federal oversight from the tribe’s constitution and amendments be approved.

July 22, 2007

Native Americans

R.I. loses lawsuit casting doubt on Indian land trusts

PROVIDENCE R.I. Rhode Island authorities lost a lawsuit Friday disputing the federal government’s ability to take land into trust for American Indian tribes, a case Indian rights groups fear could undermine tribal land across the country.

July 22, 2007

African-American

Past may be destroyed: Development threatens hidden artifacts

GREENSBORO N.C. Mark Willis and several of his friends have spent decades combing the fields, stream banks and woods north of Greensboro in search of lost treasure.

July 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Halftime show will look the same without Chief Illiniwek

CHAMPAIGN Ill. The University of Illinois halftime show will go on.

July 22, 2007

Native Americans

Virginia festival to showcase 15 American Indian tribes

HAMPTON Va. Powhatan Red Cloud-Owen occasionally runs into people including other American Indians who are surprised to learn there are still Indian tribes in Virginia.

July 22, 2007

Eagle Feather Laws Still in Place

TAHLEQUAH Okla. Although the bald eagle recently was removed from the endangered species list, the laws regulating the possession of the bird’s feathers are still in place.

July 22, 2007

Study Says Black Farmers Shut Out by U.S. Farm Policy

WASHINGTON Minority farmers get few benefits from U.S. farm policy, which favors large producers and landowners, according to a study released Thursday.

July 22, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Halftime show will look the same without Chief Illiniwek

No drastic changes are being made to the halftime show at Illini football games this year, despite the loss of the school’s longtime mascot, Chief Illiniwek.

July 22, 2007

Diversity Figures Show Half of Univ. of Calif. Students Are Immigrants, Children of Immigrants

BERKELEY, Calif. More than half of University of California undergraduates are immigrants or the children of immigrants, says a new survey that paints an interesting picture of students by the numbers.

July 22, 2007

Best and Brightest: No Age-limit On Achieving One’s Dream, Conquering Fears

Patricia Doty is far from the traditional college student. At 55, when most her age are discussing retirement plans, she still has dreams, and one of them she recently accomplished when she graduated with a master’s degree in vocational rehabilitation from Winston-Salem State University, in North Carolina.

July 21, 2007