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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010Follow Wired Campus on Twitter
Wired Campus now runs a Twitter feed with links to its latest stories, along with news about technology in higher education from other publications. The Wired Campus Twitter feed is updated regularly throughout the week by the Chronicle’s technology staff. Readers can submit ideas for stories by tweeting them and including [...]
New Center at Michigan State U. Will Study Evolution, Both Natural and Digital
Thursday, February 18th, 2010New Center at Michigan State U. Will Study Evolution, Both Natural and Digital
Computer scientists, biologists, and engineers will work together to study evolution in a new center set to open at Michigan State University in June. The university announced Wednesday that it had recieved a $25-million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Bio/computational [...]
Archive Watch: Sightings and Salinger
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Archive Watch: Sightings and Salinger
Scholars of alien encounters, take note. Britain’s National Archives has just released another batch of Ministry of Defence files on UFO sightings. The 24 files, for the years 1994-2000, comprise about 6,000 pages. You can download PDF’s free for a month, after which the reports will be beamed to an undisclosed [...]
U. of Texas Wages Trademark Battle Against ‘iTexas’ Mobile App
Thursday, February 18th, 2010U. of Texas Wages Trademark Battle Against ‘iTexas’ Mobile App
Careful how you use the word “Texas.”
The University of Texas is objecting to a new iPhone application called iTexas, developed for the university’s undergrads by an Austin start-up called Mutual Mobile. Its beef: the name.
The university has filed a complaint asking Apple to require the developer [...]
Complaint: U. of Alabama Slow to Use Emergency Notification
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Complaint: U. of Alabama Slow to Use Emergency Notification
It took nearly an hour after the fatal shootings at the University of Alabama at Huntsville on Friday for administrators to send an alert via the emergency-notification system. Some people on the campus say word should have been sent much sooner.
On Monday the university’s president, David B. [...]
Students’ Push for Open Education Meets Faculty Ambivalence
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Students’ Push for Open Education Meets Faculty Ambivalence
Washington, D.C. – We’ve all heard about university-driven open-education projects like MIT OpenCourseWare. These days, though, the push to freely publish course materials and research papers online is increasingly coming from students.
And some of them are bumping into a barrier: their own professors.
This weekend, Adi Kamdar and Parker [...]
North Carolina State U. Gives Students Free Access to Physics Textbook Online
Saturday, February 13th, 2010North Carolina State U. Gives Students Free Access to Physics Textbook Online
Physics students at North Carolina State University can get their introductory-level textbooks for free thanks to a new program by the college.
Each year about 1,300 students at North Carolina State take Physics 211 and Physics 212. Beginning this semester, the university’s libraries and physics [...]
Torn Lincoln Paper at St. Lawrence U. Is Digitally Reunited With Other Half
Saturday, February 13th, 2010Torn Lincoln Paper at St. Lawrence U. Is Digitally Reunited With Other Half
Call it a scholar’s birthday present to Abraham Lincoln. David J. Gerleman, an adjunct history professor at George Mason University, has digitially stitched together a torn document whose pieces are held by two different archives.
The lower half of document bearing President Lincoln’s signature [...]
U. of Georgia Police Arrest Employee Accused of Extortion Attempt
Thursday, February 11th, 2010U. of Georgia Police Arrest Employee Accused of Extortion Attempt
University of Georgia police officers have arrested an employee accused of trying to solicit money from a student who, the employee said, illegally downloaded music. The employee purportedly solicited money in exchange for not turning the student in to university authorities.
Dorin Lucian Dehelean, a security analyst [...]
IBM Pitches New ‘Cloud’ Software to Colleges. But Some Say It’s Corporate PR.
Thursday, February 11th, 2010IBM Pitches New ‘Cloud’ Software to Colleges. But Some Say It’s Corporate PR.
IBM announced plans on Wednesday to make its software available to colleges via a Web-based “cloud” service that the company says will make it easier for professors to incorporate technology into their classes.
But is the splashy cloud announcement corporate puff?
As IBM describes it, [...]