All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 21 2008 // Dow Chemicals Co.’s plan to give West Virginia University 58 acres of South Charleston real estate and lab space valued at $25 million has fallen through. Dow’s Union Carbide subsidiary blamed the cancellation...
Jul 17 2008 // The 2008 All-Star Game was the game of a lifetime, and a Gettysburg College professor can prove it mathematically.“What happened Tuesday night was definitely a rare occurrence and one we should not expect to see...
Jul 10 2008 // St. Louis University agreed to pay $1 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit claiming its School of Public Health tried to defraud the government by overstating faculty time spent on projects involving federal grants,...
Jun 26 2008 // William H. Rabel, professor of insurance & financial services at The University of Alabama, won the 2008 John Bickley Innovation and Creativity Award.Rabel led a team of professors that developed the new actuarial...
Jun 20 2008 // A Virginia judge on Tuesday approved an $11 million state settlement with families of most of the victims in last year’s Virginia Tech slayings that will avoid a court battle over whether anyone but the gunman was to...
Jun 13 2008 // The Willis Research Network (WRN), part of Willis Group, has announced the formation of a partnership with the University of Bologna “to include the renowned Italian institution’s flood research as part of more...
Jun 11 2008 // An entertainment company is suing Hendrix College saying the private school in Conway, Ark., backed out of a deal to allow a “Caged Fury” tournament on campus.Bone Krusher Entertainment Inc. made a deal with...
Jun 5 2008 // A North Carolina Senate panel has approved a plan to send more than $29 million to the University of North Carolina system to improve campus security. The plan approved by a Senate judiciary committee June 3 would help the...
Jun 4 2008 // The University of Idaho, seeing a resurgence of mining activity in northern Idaho due to soaring metal prices, is seeking federal funding to bring back mining education programs, a school official said.“The metals...
May 29 2008 // Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on May 28 (Wednesday) tapped the dean of the Ohio State University law school to serve temporarily as attorney general after a sexual harassment scandal forced out the previous attorney...
May 8 2008 // Three hot-air balloons dropped asphalt shingles, lumber, sticks, leaves and pine needles onto a north Alabama landfill, so scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville could gather data needed to improve tornado...
May 5 2008 // The parents of a teenager killed when a dump truck crashed into a school bus on a curvy northern Kentucky highway filed a lawsuit.Daniel Wood’s parents are alleging negligence by the trucking company and the driver...
Apr 28 2008 // Mississippi’s Jackson State University will install metal detectors in two dormitories and ban visitors to both residential halls as part of new security measures.JSU spokesman Anthony Dean said April 24 that the...
Apr 22 2008 // Murray State University officials expect emergency sirens to be operational on the Kentucky campus in about a month, part of an effort to enhance security procedures that can warn of violence or severe weather.President...
Apr 21 2008 // The University of Kansas men’s basketball team may have been the big winner in the recent NCAA championship — but when it comes to the NCAA’s bonanza of sponsorship benefits from basketball and other sports,...
Apr 21 2008 // Quite a few insurers’ names have been bounced and bandied about like basketballs on TV lately, and it’s not by accident; it’s a high-profile benefit of some of the industry’s major players having...
Apr 14 2008 // Zurich Financial Services Group announced the appointment of Lindene Patton and Elpida Constantinou to key positions within its Climate Office, both will report to Michael Kerner, Global Chief Underwriting Officer and Head...
Apr 11 2008 // The 11-year-old Cleveland boy who steered a runaway school bus to safety said Wednesday he took the wheel because the bus was rolling toward a semi.David Murphy told on ABC’s “Good Morning America” other...
Apr 8 2008 // The University of Kansas men’s basketball team may have been the big winner at last night’s NCAA championship — but when it comes to the NCAA’s bonanza of sponsorship benefits from basketball and...
Apr 7 2008 // Quite a few insurers’ names have been bounced and bandied about like basketballs on TV lately, and it’s not by accident; it’s a high profile benefit of some of the industry’s major players having...