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MIT Web Site Looks to Increase Understanding of Government

MIT Web Site Looks to Increase Understanding of Government By Ronald RoachCAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab has unveiled a new Web site called “Government Information Awareness (GIA).” Its creators expect the Web site to become a major clearinghouse of information on government watchdogs and to counter new government technologies that […]

July 30, 2003

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Web Site Links EPA, Private Industry

Web Site Links EPA, Private IndustryBy Ronald Roach WHEELING, W.Va. Businesses in the United States can gain access to more than $500 million in annual Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Research & Development through a new Web site. The site, , offers information on technology and partnership opportunities with the EPA. The site is a small […]

July 2, 2003

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Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business Commitment to faculty, students and fund raising brings Florida State dean early legacy of successBy Pearl Stewart Tallahassee, Fla. One morning about three years ago, Dr. Melvin Stith brushed past a student who seemed to need assistance in his outer office. When the dean of the Florida State University College of […]

July 2, 2003

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Minority Women See Advancement Through Information Technology

Minority Women See Advancement Through Information TechnologyBy Ronald Roach University Park, Pa.When compared to middle class and professional minority women, poor minority women have higher expectations for social and economic advancement through opportunities in information technology (IT), including escaping poverty as a step to upward mobility, according to a researcher at Penn State University. A […]

June 18, 2003

MSIs

Senate ‘Digital Divide’ Bill Gains House Companion

Senate ‘Digital Divide’ Bill Gains House CompanionBy Charles Dervarics A bill to combat the digital divide at Black, Hispanic-serving and tribal colleges will get a hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., proposed the bill as H.R. 2183. It is a companion to a Senate-approved plan from Sen. George Allen, R-Va. […]

June 18, 2003

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Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice Online

Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice Online By Reid Goldsborough One of the more interesting aspects involving the news coverage of the war in Iraq was the personal accounts, or logs, of embedded reporters as they traveled with soldiers. Readers got a first-hand, first-person account of what fighting men and women experienced. Similar ideas […]

June 4, 2003

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North Carolina HBCU Evaluates Emerging Imaging Technology

North Carolina HBCU Evaluates Emerging Imaging TechnologyBy Ronald Roach CHARLOTTE, N.C.Researchers at Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) have begun evaluating an emerging imaging technology that should yield advances in homeland security and aviation safety. The project, funded by the NASA Glenn Research Center in Ohio, has allowed the passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imager to be built […]

June 4, 2003

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Philadelphia Adopts Computer Certification Program

Philadelphia Adopts Computer Certification ProgramBy Ronald Roach PHILADELPHIAIn an effort to boost work-force productivity and business growth, a coalition has been formed to better prepare Philadelphia area residents to succeed in the technology-driven workplace.The newly-formed Greater Philadelphia Computer Skills Collaborative is being led by the Mayor’s Commission on Technology, IBM, the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of […]

June 4, 2003

Latinx

Beacons of Hope

Beacons of HopeSECME Inc. partners with minority-serving institutions to create alternative high schools to increase high school, college completion ratesBy Phaedra Brotherton In 2000, only 18 percent of all African American and 10 percent of Hispanics completed a four-year degree by age 29, compared with 34 percent of Whites (total populations), according to the U.S. […]

June 4, 2003

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Sorority Launches Science, Technology Radio Show

Sorority Launches Science, Technology Radio Show WASHINGTON Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., has teamed up with a Washington-based talk radio station to bring science and technology information into African American homes. The Science and Everyday Experiences (SEE) radio program is part of the sorority’s ongoing efforts to get young African Americans and their families involved […]

June 4, 2003

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Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice Online

Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice OnlineOne of the more interesting aspects involving the news coverage of the war in Iraq was the personal accounts, or logs, of embedded reporters as they traveled with soldiers. Readers got a first-hand, first-person account of what fighting men and women experienced.Similar ideas are behind the newest trend […]

May 21, 2003

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Kent State Opens High-Tech Trading Exchange Laboratory

Kent State Opens High-Tech Trading Exchange Laboratory By Ronald Roach KENT, Ohio Last month, Kent State University opened a Financial Engineering Trading Floor designed to give business students hands-on experience in risk management and derivatives trading by replicating trading floor conditions. The facility, housed within the university’s College of Business Administration, has 25 Hewlett-Packard workstations […]

May 7, 2003