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Faculty & Staff

900 Jackson State Students Getting iPads

Nine hundred Jackson State University students are taking part in a program in which they will receive iPads for school work.

September 4, 2012

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President Obama Honors Outstanding Science, Math and Engineering Mentors

Nine individuals and eight organizations were named recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

November 15, 2011

African-American

Peerless

His vigor unabated, Dr. Norman Francis marks his unheard-of 43rd year as president of Xavier University of Louisiana and counting, remaining as passionate as ever about the success of his students.

October 30, 2011

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Chrome browser now comfortably past 10% of market

The Google browser showed a strong uptick over the holidays and into January.

February 1, 2011

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Emerging market entrepreneurs are brilliant, crazy & cocky

My goal this morning was to offer a comprehensive review of Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky – a new book on emerging market entrepreneurship by TechCrunch scribe Sarah Lacy. But time is running short, so here is an abbreviated version: Go buy it.

February 1, 2011

Leadership & Policy

Making Amends in California

Starting this week and continuing through June 7, six campuses of the California State University system are holding special commencement ceremonies for the more than 200 Cal State students who were forced to report to internment camps during World War II.

May 18, 2010

Faculty & Staff

From the Cultural Revolution to Computer Science

When Dr. Wei Chen received the 2010 IBM Faculty Award, the Tennessee State University computer science professor was puzzled over all the fuss about the honor. The IBM award was for Chen’s work on “cloud computing,” an emerging field in information technology.

April 12, 2010

Students

Making it Mandatory

With high-profile digital devices such as the Apple iPad hitting the consumer market, higher education institutions consider the latest wave of mobile computing gadgets for adoption as campuswide tools.

March 30, 2010

Faculty & Staff

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Computing For Cures

When Dr. Yaohang Li’s parents steered him as a teenager toward a computing career, it didn’t douse any of his passion for laboratory sciences.

January 6, 2010

Students

Minority Graduate Students Urged to Address Pipeline Issues

During mentoring institute, minority graduate students were told by senior scholars that they will soon inherit responsibility to help lead the push for diversity in American higher education.

October 25, 2009

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Gordon Parks Museum Nearly Complete

Construction of a new Gordon Parks museum in his eastern Kansas hometown is now open and nearly completed.

September 14, 2009

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Select Books From the ‘Cradle of Liberty’

The presses of some major Massachusetts universities offer appealing and noteworthy selections on Black history and education issues.

February 18, 2009