All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 28 2014 // Columbia University and Barnard College mishandled incidents of sexual assault and misconduct on campus, according to a complaint filed yesterday with the U.S. Education Department by 23 students.The complaint alleges...
Apr 25 2014 // The University of California has agreed to pay $10 million to a former surgical chairman who says he was the victim of retaliation after pointing out conflicts of interest at UCLA’s medical school.The Los Angeles...
Apr 24 2014 // Campus police at the University of Kentucky say new surveillance cameras are helping them fight crime.UK Police Chief Joe Monroe told WKYT-TV that the school has 400 cameras installed so far and another 1,600 are planned....
Apr 17 2014 // Twenty four insurance and risk management students at five Texas universities were recently awarded academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The students attend Huston-Tillotson...
Apr 9 2014 // A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report says overall crime on college campuses has dropped by more than 11 percent.The Chattanooga Times Free Press cited the data in reporting that the number of assaults and thefts were...