Associated PressNews RoundupUniversity of Kansas Group Wants School to Sell JetTOPEKA, Kan. — A group of faculty, staff and students at the University of Kansas is urging the school’s administration to sell its jet to save money. The recommendation came in a report by the University Senate’s Planning and Resources Committee that was released last spring, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. Selling the Cessna CJ4 jet […]January 22, 2018News RoundupU.S. Marches For Women’s Rights, Slam Trump, Encourage VotingLOS ANGELES: Demonstrators from Los Angeles to New York marched in support of female empowerment and denounced President Donald Trump’s views on immigration, abortion, LGBT rights and women’s rights on Saturday, the anniversary of his inauguration. People marched in Casper, Wyo., and Cambridge, Mass., and in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Houston. In Park City, Utah, […]January 21, 2018News RoundupUMass Gets Chan Zuckerberg Grant For Scientific ProjectAMHERST, Mass. — The University of Massachusetts has received a $5.5 million grant from a philanthropy founded by the man behind Facebook and his wife to create a way to search millions of scientific research articles. The grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to UMass’s Center for Data Science will create the Computable Knowledge project […]January 21, 2018News RoundupStudy: Farmers Don’t Have Enough Access to Mental HealthLAKE BETON, Minn. — A University of Minnesota study says farmers in the state may not be getting all the help they need to deal with the stress and mental strain of their jobs. Marizen Ramirez, who co-authored the study and is an epidemiologist at the university, told Minnesota Public Radio that farmers who live […]January 21, 2018News RoundupOregon State Alum Gives $50 Million to Veterinary CollegeCORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University officials say they plan to bolster the veterinary college after an alumnus has given one of the largest donations in the history of the university. The Register-Guard reports the university on Wednesday renamed the college the Gary R. Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine after the alumnus donated $50 million. Carlson […]January 18, 2018News RoundupUniversity of Illinois Trustee Seat has Been Empty a YearCHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A seat on the University of Illinois Board of Trustees has been empty now for about a year. The board is preparing to elect new officers Thursday in Chicago. But Gov. Bruce Rauner has yet to choose an appointee for the seat vacated last January, the News-Gazette reported . “Our administration is […]January 17, 2018News RoundupUniversity of South Carolina Investigates Racist Fliers On CampusCOLUMBIA, S.C. — On the first day of the spring semester and a day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the University of South Carolina is investigating racist fliers that were found on campus. Students reached out to WLTX-TV, Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday morning upset about discovering the fliers at a building that houses the […]January 17, 2018News RoundupInvestor to Donate $75 Million to Johns Hopkins Philosophy ProgramBALTIMORE — A wealthy investor who credits his success to studying philosophy in college has given $75 million to the philosophy department at Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins announced the donation from William “Bill” Miller III in a news release Tuesday. The university says it’s believed to be by far the largest ever to a […]January 16, 2018News RoundupIowa Lawsuit Pits Gay Rights Against Religious FreedomDES MOINES, Iowa— The University of Iowa is caught up in a legal fight with a conservative Christian student group that denied a leadership position to a student who is gay. The case pits a university policy barring discrimination based on sexual orientation against the religious beliefs of a 10-member group called Business Leaders in […]January 16, 2018News RoundupIU Southeast Starts Program for STEM TeachersNEW ALBANY, Ind. — A university in southeast Indiana has received a $240,000 grant to help local educators update their science, technology, engineering and math courses to meet requirement changes. Indiana University Southeast’s two-year grant is from the Indiana Commission on Higher Learning, the News and Tribune reported . The university has created a program […]January 15, 2018Previous PagePage 39 of 569Next Page