All the headlines from our Universities Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2009 // Ohio’s Mount Union College head football coach Larry Kehres has been selected as the 2008 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year for Division III.Kehres and Liberty Mutual will present four local charities and the Mount...
Jan 13 2009 // The Iowa Board of Regents plans to meet Friday to consider issuing $30 million in bonds to help with flood-recovery at the University of Iowa.The school suffered more than $230 million in damage during widespread June...
Dec 12 2008 // University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving.The inventors are hoping the insurance industry will back...
Dec 12 2008 // The Scholarship Committee of the Arizona Chapter of the CPCU Society (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters) has announced the recipients of the chapter’s 2008-2009 scholarships:Jenelle Burns, Arizona State...
Nov 25 2008 // The University of Kansas Center for Research has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that two of its researchers should be listed on patents for a cancer drug.The research center sued the National Institutes of Health because...
Nov 24 2008 // “You are the current and future business leaders of the state of California,” California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner told an audience at California State University in Fullerton on Oct. 17, 2008. In...
Nov 20 2008 // The Insurance Council of Texas Education Foundation has awarded $28,000 in academic scholarships to 14 students of insurance at three universities in the state.“This is the seventh year that we have awarded...
Nov 16 2008 // Samford University’s new football field house is being named for a prominent Birmingham family.The Cooney Family Field House was made possible with a lead gift from Birmingham insurance agent and Samford graduate...
Nov 11 2008 // More than a third of drivers in Tippecanoe County, Ind. believe driving 20 mph over the speed limit is OK, and the rest have no qualms going 5 to 10 mph over the limit, a Purdue University researcher has found.Civil...
Nov 7 2008 // Despite the risk that the Iowa River could overflow its banks again, the University of Iowa says it will restore a flood-damaged art building.Officials say that’s because the need for space outweighs the risk that...
Nov 4 2008 // Nebraska State Treasurer Shane Osborn announced that effective Nov. 1, 2008, OFI Private Investments (OFIPI), a subsidiary of OppenheimerFunds Inc., will become the new investment manager and service provider for the State...
Oct 27 2008 // Birmingham, Alabama’s Samford University announced on that its new football field house will be named for the Birmingham family that provide a lead gift.The school said the Cooney Family Field House was made possible...
Oct 10 2008 // The University of Iowa has named a 14-member task force that will assist in planning changes to reduce the risk of future flooding from the Iowa River. Officials say the flood mitigation task force will meet throughout the...
Oct 6 2008 // Hawaii Pacific University has instituted a graduate program in insurance and risk management.According to Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt, “HPU’s graduate insurance program is the first in the West....
Sep 30 2008 // Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Insurance recently named Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee to its board of directors effective Oct. 1, 2008. Gee replaces James L. Setterlin who recently announced his retirement from the Board...
Sep 30 2008 // Injured workers would have a wider choice of doctors and greater access to new medical technology. Businesses would face less government red tape.To people who have experienced a job injury claim handled by the Ohio Bureau...
Sep 30 2008 // Thousands of people in the St. Louis area are still coping with the destruction and inconveniences left behind after the area was hit by flash flooding on Sept. 14.Hundreds of homes have been condemned pending repairs and...
Sep 19 2008 // Hawaii Pacific University has instituted a graduate program in insurance and risk management.According to Hawaii Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt, “HPU’s graduate insurance program is the first in the West....
Sep 18 2008 // Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that inadequate size guidelines for all-terrain vehicles may be a contributing factor to a recent string of injuries and deaths. The study results announced Sept. 17 found...
Sep 5 2008 // A center that studies emergency responses to disasters like the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina is opening at a Manhattan college. The Christian Regenhard Center for Emergency Response Studies is named after a...