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Mandela Institute Seeks to Narrow Science, Technology Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nelson Mandela, along with a number of distinguished African scholars, is determined to lead Sub-Saharan Africa out of the furrows of economic instability using science and technology. Story:

July 27, 2005

Latinx

Senate Approves Technology Bill For Minority-Serving Institutions

Institutions serving specific demographic populations got a few potential funding boosts from Congress recently. Story:

July 27, 2005

HBCUs

UNCF Awards $10 Million IT Contract to Dallas Firm

The United Negro College Fund has awarded a Dallas firm a five-year information technology services contract valued at $10 million Story:

July 13, 2005

HBCUs

Finding the Best Fit

Your coverage of Sen. George Allen’s introduction of the Minority Serving Institutions Digital and Wireless Technology Opportunities Act in Story:

April 6, 2005

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College-Centered Auction Site Debuts

College-Centered Auction Site DebutsBy Ronald RoachMIAMIIn an effort to bring an eBay-like Web site to college students, a Miami company has introduced CollegeJunktion.com, an auction and trading Web site available at . The new Web site creates an online community for students across the United States to buy, sell and exchange nearly anything students and […]

March 23, 2005

Latinx

Wiring Schools For Success

Wiring Schools For SuccessLawmakers revive bill to assist minority-serving  institutions in upgrading technology infrastructureBy Charles DervaricsIt is no secret that many historically Black colleges and universities are trailing behind TWIs (Traditional White Institutions) in the technology race. In fact, a 2000 study conducted by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) for […]

February 23, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Technology’s Latest Wave

Technology’s Latest WaveColleges and universities areincreasingly exploring the academic use of digital mobile devices — but lack of money sometimes stands in the wayBy Peter GaluszkaReaching for her iPod, Dorian Scheuch gets ready to study. The student at Georgia College & State University tunes into special music she has downloaded from a Web site prepared […]

February 23, 2005

MSIs

In With the New

In With the NewJust when you think you’ve gotten comfortably ahead on information technology tools, whether it’s for home, work or school, along comes a new product or application that throws you off kilter for not having the latest and greatest. To say that the digital revolution unsettles might be an understatement. In this year’s […]

February 23, 2005

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NASA Partners With Schools to Work

NASA Partners With Schools to Work With International Space Station     By Ronald RoachHOUSTONStudents and faculty at seven universities will soon benefit from collaborations their respective schools have worked out as NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) partners working with the International Space Station. The agency awarded grants to the schools to work with the International […]

February 23, 2005

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Microsoft Launches Research Center in India

Microsoft Launches Research Center in IndiaBANGALORE, IndiaThe Microsoft Corp. opened a research lab in India last month, making it only the third Microsoft research facility outside the United States. Microsoft Research India, situated in Bangalore, will handle long-term basic and applied research in coordination with both the Indian government and Indian higher education institutions. Several […]

February 9, 2005

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Penn State Engineers Present Expanded View of Broadband by Power Lines

Penn State Engineers Present Expanded View of Broadband by Power Lines       By Ronald RoachAs leading technology companies unveiled dazzling new computing and electronic products at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month, engineers from Penn State University captured the research spotlight for presenting an innovative solution for broadband delivery over power […]

January 26, 2005

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The Benefits, and Fear, of Cookie Technology

The Benefits, and Fear, of Cookie TechnologyYou wouldn’t think a computer tool with an innocuous-sounding name as a cookie would create the fear that it does. But these tiny Web browser helpers are an example of how the useful can get tossed in with the dangerous through the near-hysteria brought about by the real threats […]

December 29, 2004