All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 3 2013 // The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference recommended that the college basketball player who hit a half-court shot for $20,000 at an Oklahoma City Thunder game be allowed to use the money toward his tuition.Cameron...
Dec 2 2013 // Scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory have a new project in the works that aims to better predict the intensity of storm surges on the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay...
Nov 27 2013 // Iowa’s top insurance regulator is backing the University of Iowa in a dispute with the federal government over how much insurance the campus must carry after rebuilding from the 2008 flood.Insurance Commissioner Nick...
Nov 26 2013 // The University of Alabama opened a new football-training center last February. Any professional team would be happy to have it. The amenities include a $9 million weight room, a hydrotherapy pool with a Club Med–style...
Nov 26 2013 // Making a half-court shot during a promotion at an Oklahoma City Thunder game might be easier for 23-year-old Cameron Rodriguez than keeping the $20,000 prize.Rodriguez, a basketball player at Southwestern College in...
Nov 21 2013 // The National Collegiate Athletic Association sued Electronic Arts Inc., saying the video-game maker hasn’t agreed to indemnify the NCAA for legal claims by college athletes and hasn’t maintained insurance to do...
Nov 19 2013 // University of Alabama officials say the school has issued 153 cease and desist letters in the past decade to businesses and people accused of selling goods that violate the school’s trademarks.The school defends its...
Nov 18 2013 // Twenty students at four Texas universities were recently awarded a total of $38,000 in academic scholarships from the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) Education Foundation.The students attend St. Mary’s University in...
Nov 15 2013 // Google Inc. on Thursday won dismissal of a long-running lawsuit by authors who accused the Internet search company of digitally copying millions of books for an online library without permission.U.S. Circuit Judge Denny...
Nov 6 2013 // A Harahan manufacturing company has had to recruit outside Louisiana for skilled trade workers. The Laitram Corp. isn’t alone in its difficulty finding trained workers for such jobs as electricians and welders.Turner...
Oct 28 2013 // Penn State officials announced Monday that over the past few months the university has reached agreement with 26 of the victims of former assistant football coach Gerald Sandusky.The aggregate dollar amount paid by the...
Oct 21 2013 // A University of Alabama study has found that the April 2011 tornado didn’t severely impact home foreclosures in the Tuscaloosa area.Sociologist Bronwen Lichtenstein says researchers noted a slight decrease in...
Oct 15 2013 // California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a for-profit college company of misrepresenting job placement rates, false advertising and other deceptive practices to lure low-income residents to take out...
Oct 14 2013 // Penn State has spent more than $50 million on fines, legal bills and other costs linked to a sex abuse scandal that has roiled the university for nearly two years, according to the school’s website.That figure does...
Oct 7 2013 // The insurance industry is facing a crisis. Twenty percent of the insurance workforce is near retirement age, compared to only 15 percent of the broader financial services workforce. By 2018, the number of the insurance...
Aug 22 2013 // The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has appointed Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, to its Insurance and Risk Management Center’s Advisory Council serving the...
Aug 22 2013 // Electronic Arts Inc. won a court ruling that puts on hold claims accusing the company of profiting from using likenesses of college athletes in its video games.The ruling by a federal appeals court in San Francisco will...
Aug 20 2013 // In one football practice, some players may take several hits, while others take a few big blows.For coaches and trainers, keeping track of it all can be difficult. “A lot of times when we’re on the field,...
Aug 19 2013 // Pennsylvania State University agreed to settle the first of 31 suits filed in the sex-abuse scandal involving ex-football coach Jerry Sandusky, with about 25 more set to settle, lawyers in the resolved case said.The...
Aug 18 2013 // A ruling by a Florida appeals court on Friday has reduced a $10 million damage award to $200,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...