All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 29 2018 // The University of Arizona has banned dockless electric scooters from its campus effective immediately.University of Arizona Parking and Transportation Services Interim Executive Director Gail Nazarenko says the decision...
Oct 26 2018 // Following years of research, studies and public debate, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — in partnership with the state’s General Land Office — has recommended a multi-billion-dollar project that would protect...
Oct 24 2018 // Mississippi State University officials say no one was hurt by a fire in a dormitory room.The fire happened Sunday night on the third floor of Oak Hall on the Starkville campus. The university said in a news release Monday...
Oct 23 2018 // A trauma research team has developed a profile of commonalities among communities where mass shootings have occurred that includes a shortage of mental health professionals, a relative lack of socialization opportunities,...
Oct 23 2018 // Jurors have awarded $25 million to the parents of a University of Florida student who was run over and killed by a garbage truck near campus. The Gainesville Sun reports that an Alachua County jury awarded $12.5 million...
Oct 18 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Ten years ago, CoreLogic® (at the time, EQECAT) introduced the use of global Atmosphere-Ocean-General-Circulation Models (AOGCM) for insurance-oriented assessments of...
Oct 16 2018 // For 35 years, Ruth D’Eredita tried to dismiss her former professor’s behavior — the way he touched her, groped her and kissed her. But last year, as dozens of women came forward to share similar encounters...
Oct 10 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired Boyce Morin as vice president of University Health Plans, the firm’s specialty division focusing on the design,...
Oct 9 2018 // When flood waters rise, more data helps better predict and monitor changing conditions. Soon there will be an app for that.The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Smart and Connected Communities $1.5 million grant...
Oct 4 2018 // Concussions plunged in Ivy League football after the kickoff line was moved to thwart what might be the game’s most dangerous play, according to a study published Monday.The aim of the 5-yard move was to have more...
Oct 2 2018 // West Virginia University says it has banned five fraternities from campus for at least 10 years. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Chi and Theta Chi can no...
Oct 1 2018 // Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, must go to trial to defend a lawsuit claiming it discriminates against Asian-American applicants.A Boston federal judge’s rejection Friday of requests by both sides for...
Oct 1 2018 // An industry publication recently published an article that said insurance is “the new kale” because the one-time ignored garnish today is sought after as a healthy must-have in the form of everything from...
Sep 21 2018 // Want the best results out of your employees? Then be nice to them.New research from Binghamton University, State University at New York finds that showing compassion to employees almost always pays off, especially when...
Sep 18 2018 // Complaints of sex discrimination made against the University of Louisiana at Lafayette by nine female athletes include allegations by some of the women of inappropriate behavior by the university’s president and...
Sep 10 2018 // Two young men have pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hazing in the drinking death of a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge whose blood alcohol level was more than six times the legal limit for driving.Sean-Paul...
Sep 7 2018 // A woman has filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon over injuries she claims to have sustained while at a rock concert in 2016.The Register-Guard reporte Anne Holder filed the law suit last week in Lane County...
Sep 3 2018 // Western Kentucky University is developing a statewide drought warning system with the help of a $200,000 federal grant.The Bowling Green Daily News reports the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University...
Aug 31 2018 // The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday backed a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants, throwing its support behind a case that could impact the use of race-based college...
Aug 28 2018 // Western Kentucky University is developing a statewide drought warning system with the help of a $200,000 federal grant.The Bowling Green Daily News reports the Kentucky Climate Center at Western Kentucky University...