All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 15 2014 // Former Mountain State University students who sued the now-defunct Beckley, West Virginia school would be entitled to compensation under a tentative settlement announced this week.The proposed settlement announced by...
Jul 28 2014 // New research appears to confirm that laws against texting while driving do reduce traffic fatalities if they are primary enforcement laws.Primary texting bans are associated with a three percent reduction in traffic...
Jul 25 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association and Electronic Arts Inc. won a judge’s preliminary approval of $60 million in settlements of athletes’ claims that their images were used in video games without...
Jul 22 2014 // The Hanover Insurance Group advises that as new high school graduates get ready to head off to college, parents would be wise to prepare for potential risks and liabilities, and to consider the insurance...
Jul 21 2014 // The University of Connecticut said it will pay a group of students almost $1.3 million to settle a sex discrimination suit filed last year that led to a hearing in the state legislature.The five current and former female...
Jul 16 2014 // Sometimes, the most deadly part of a fire isn’t the smoke or flames but the stress placed on a firefighter’s body as they move in, out, up and down a burning building.Wearing heavy “bunker gear” and...
Jul 10 2014 // Bloomberg John Wayne Enterprises LLC, a family business set up to protect rights associated with the late movie actor, asked a federal court to declare that its trademarks don’t infringe those of Duke University.In a...
Jul 9 2014 // One in five U.S. colleges doesn’t provide faculty and staff with training in how to respond to victims of sexual assault, according to a survey by Senator Claire McCaskill.In addition, about 31 percent of the schools...
Jul 9 2014 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association suggested curbing full-contact football practices, echoing a policy instituted by the Ivy League in 2011.The recommendation is among a set of guidelines created to...
Jul 3 2014 // Relatives of two former Auburn University football players shot to death at a party and a third man who was wounded are suing the suspected gunman.Desmonte Leonard faces capital murder and other charges in the killings of...
Jul 3 2014 // A California court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Alabama State University against the auditing firm that’s reviewing the school’s finances.An attorney for Forensic Strategic Solutions said that Los Angeles...
Jun 16 2014 // Surviving a tornado in a wood-frame residential home is enhanced by an intact roof and standing walls, but light-weight garage doors can be the weak link to allowing high winds and pressure changes into a home that can...
Jun 15 2014 // Universities and research libraries that created a searchable online database for millions of books did not violate copyright protections belonging to authors whose works were scanned, a U.S. appeals court ruled last...
May 29 2014 // President Barack Obama will announce $86 million in projects to improve detection of concussions in children and research their effects, an effort to reassure parents concerned by the rise of brain injuries in youth...
May 20 2014 // Students at a northwestern Pennsylvania medical school are being urged to monitor their credit after their names and Social Security numbers were inadvertently posted online.The Erie Times-News says the data breach...
May 20 2014 // Florida International University’s 12-fan “Wall of Wind” hurricane simulator is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington. The “Designing for Disasters” exhibit explores new...
May 19 2014 // Ex-National Collegiate Athletic Association players suing to gain a share of the $800 million of annual broadcast revenue reaped by the organization said they won’t seek damages for past use of their images, instead...
May 5 2014 // The more than a century-old Manzanita and Lincoln resident halls at the University of Nevada, Reno are steeped in history, but their vulnerability in the event of an earthquake is causing some concern about the students...
May 2 2014 // The U.S. Education Department is investigating 55 colleges for failing to prevent and respond to sexual assaults and harassment on campus.The colleges are being probed for violations of Title IX, the law that bars gender...
Apr 29 2014 // A White House task force called for U.S. colleges to conduct mandatory surveys to reveal the frequency of sexual assault on their campuses and student attitudes toward such misconduct.The Obama administration will provide...