All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2009 // One of the largest ever interdisciplinary conferences on climate change will kick-off today in Copenhagen, Denmark.A bulletin from the University of Copenhagen notes that “more than 2,000 participants from around 80...
Feb 4 2009 // Take a guess — how long are the dashed lines that are painted down the middle of a road?If you’re like most people, you answered, “Two feet.” The real answer is 10 feet. That’s the federal...
Jan 26 2009 // Ohio’s Mount Union College head football coach Larry Kehres has been selected as the 2008 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year for Division III.Kehres and Liberty Mutual will present four local charities and the Mount...
Jan 23 2009 // The Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced that Kevin Paul Hale of Baton Rouge, La., has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the Stephen W. Cavanaugh Scholarship.LWCC established the Stephen...
Jan 13 2009 // The Iowa Board of Regents plans to meet Friday to consider issuing $30 million in bonds to help with flood-recovery at the University of Iowa.The school suffered more than $230 million in damage during widespread June...
Dec 19 2008 // It might have been a serious impediment to completing this year’s football season but Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, working closely with State Senator Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), was able to provide an...
Dec 12 2008 // University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving.The inventors are hoping the insurance industry will back...
Dec 12 2008 // The Scholarship Committee of the Arizona Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) has announced the recipients of the chapter’s 2008-2009 scholarships:Jenelle Burns, Arizona State...
Nov 25 2008 // The University of Kansas Center for Research has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that two of its researchers should be listed on patents for a cancer drug.The research center sued the National Institutes of Health because...
Nov 24 2008 // “You are the current and future business leaders of the state of California,” California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner told an audience at California State University in Fullerton on Oct. 17, 2008. In...
Nov 20 2008 // The Insurance Council of Texas Education Foundation has awarded $28,000 in academic scholarships to 14 students of insurance at three universities in the state.“This is the seventh year that we have awarded...
Nov 16 2008 // Samford University’s new football field house is being named for a prominent Birmingham family.The Cooney Family Field House was made possible with a lead gift from Birmingham insurance agent and Samford graduate...
Nov 11 2008 // More than a third of drivers in Tippecanoe County, Ind. believe driving 20 mph over the speed limit is OK, and the rest have no qualms going 5 to 10 mph over the limit, a Purdue University researcher has found.Civil...
Nov 7 2008 // Despite the risk that the Iowa River could overflow its banks again, the University of Iowa says it will restore a flood-damaged art building.Officials say that’s because the need for space outweighs the risk that...
Nov 4 2008 // Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn announced that effective Nov. 1, 2008, OFI Private Investments (OFIPI), a subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds Inc., will become the new investment manager and service provider for the State...
Oct 27 2008 // Birmingham, Alabama’s Samford University announced on that its new football field house will be named for the Birmingham family that provide a lead gift.The school said the Cooney Family Field House was made possible...
Oct 10 2008 // The University of Iowa has named a 14-member task force that will assist in planning changes to reduce the risk of future flooding from the Iowa River. Officials say the flood mitigation task force will meet throughout the...
Oct 6 2008 // Hawaii Pacific University has instituted a graduate program in insurance and risk management.According to Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt, “HPU’s graduate insurance program is the first in the West....
Oct 1 2008 // The insurer of the Unit 5 school district in Urbana, Ill. is balking at providing coverage in connection with a sexual abuse lawsuit.Cincinnati Insurance contends in a federal lawsuit that an Urbana student identified as...
Sep 30 2008 // Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance recently named Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee to its board of directors effective Oct. 1, 2008. Gee replaces James L. Setterlin who recently announced his retirement from the Board...