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Tapping Into Your PC’s Potential

Tapping Into Your PC’s PotentialAre you making the most of your PC? Probably not, judging from my own observations and those of others. To get a better feel for this, I talked with a product manager at Hewlett Packard. HP recently merged with Compaq, making it the largest personal computer manufacturer in the world, according […]

August 28, 2002

Texas Plan Takes Engineering Into High Schools

Texas Plan Takes Engineering Into High SchoolsDALLAS The Infinity Project, a program co-sponsored by the Southern Methodist University School of Engineering and Texas Instruments, will introduce engineering studies into Texas public high schools. The project is currently accepting grant applications from Texas schools.The Infinity Project curriculum is a yearlong engineering class that is accredited by […]

August 28, 2002

Johnson C. Smith Included Among Yahoo!’s Top Wired Schools

Johnson C. Smith Included Among Yahoo!’s Top Wired SchoolsCHARLOTTE, N.C.Officials at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., recently announced its inclusion in Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine’s Most Wired Small Colleges List. Last October, historically Black Tennessee State University garnered a place on the top 100 wired universities list for 2001. Months later, before the […]

August 28, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Secrets of the Presidential Turn-Around: ‘Plugged in’ in the Piedmont

‘Plugged in’ in the PiedmontDr. Dorothy Cowser YancyJohnson C. Smith UniversityIt takes a lot of personal energy to be a college president, especially when one’s goal is to achieve more than the status quo. Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy has always been known as someone with energy to spare. As the president of Johnson C. Smith University, […]

August 28, 2002

Legislating the Technical Mind

Legislating the Technical MindTexas congresswoman works to equip young Americans with the skills to meet the nation’s technological and scientific needs.By Ronald RoachU.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, is no stranger to being a trailblazer. The first woman to represent Dallas in the Texas state legislature and the U.S. Congress, Johnson has championed health, science […]

August 14, 2002

A New Day for Making Money on the Web

A New Day for Making Money on the WebUntil the middle of 2000, the Internet economy was flying high, elevating with it the larger economy, not to mention the stock market and the portfolios of millions of investors. Then the bottom caved in.During the first quarter of 2001, in the middle of the implosion, 164 […]

July 17, 2002

Give and Take

Give and Takeassistive technology program benefits both disabled and students who design devices to help themIn the 1980s, senior engineering projects at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell tended to involve the students’ personal “needs” — a bigger stereo or a better car alarm. Then in the early 1990s a request came from a local hospital to […]

July 17, 2002

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Light at the End of the Tunnel One student at a time, Wright State has become one of the country’s leaders in accommodating students with disabilitiesBy Mark FisherDAYTON, OhioWright State University never set out to become one of the nation’s leaders in accommodating students with disabilities. It happened quite by accident — and one student […]

July 17, 2002

Assistive Technology Comes Into Focus

Assistive Technology Comes Into FocusWith the push from federal legislation, colleges and universities enhance learning for the disabledAccess in higher education is usually understood as the admission, financing, and social support of students belonging to socially disadvantaged groups as they pursue postsecondary education. However, that understanding has focused largely on students from racial and ethnic […]

July 17, 2002

Providing Students the Tools to Excel

Providing Students the Tools to ExcelPre-college program places students on the path to careers in math, science and engineering By Tenisha Mercer DETROITKenneth Hill couldn’t believe what he was hearing. While at an educational conference in Washington in 1976, Hill found himself at the center of a raging debate about whether math, science and engineering […]

July 3, 2002

Survey: Science, Technology Critical to War on Terrorism

Survey: Science, Technology Critical to War on Terrorism NEW YORKWhen it comes to the post-Sept. 11 future, U.S. college students predict more terrorist violence, but appear confident about the future and believe they are up to the challenges ahead — with some help from science and technology.In a new Gallup survey commissioned by Bayer Corp. […]

July 3, 2002

People Who Love Their Computers Too Much

People Who Love Their Computers Too MuchJoe, a computer programmer, was talking with his psychotherapist. “You’ve got to help me,” he says. “I’ve fallen in love with my computer, but I know I can never marry her.”“Well, it’s good you haven’t totally lost touch with reality,” says the therapist. “Oh, it could never work,” says […]

June 19, 2002

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