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Altro Performs for Arts College - 27/08/2008

When Pendleton College in Manchester was planning its new performing arts centre, it needed products that were multi-talented performers. As well as flooring products that would offer heavy duty durability for areas of high traffic, the college had to think of the safety of pupils. In addition, due to the specialist electronic equipment in the college’s TV studio, the products chosen for these areas could not interfere with the recording devices.

Who's Getting a Chunk of Wood? Emerging Artists Vie for 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In what's predicted to be the closest competition in the five-year history of the "mtvU Woodie Awards," MTV's 24- hour college network, mtvU, today announced the 30 nominees for the definitive college music awards. Nominated by college students across the country, the artists selected forsake traditional benchmarks of Gold and Platinum in their quest for a 10-pound chunk of pure wood, symbolizing their connection to college students and new music fans everywhere.

Circuit City Offers Tips for Last-Minute Back-to-School Shoppers

RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Circuit City is offering last-minute shopping tips to help American families who are scrambling to prepare their students for college. The U.S. Department of Education predicts almost 18.4 million students will be enrolled in the nation's colleges and universities this fall. A national survey commissioned by Circuit City shows most families with college-bound students have been engaged in back-to-school shopping for two months or more. But for families who are still working to prepare their students, there are strategies that can help get the job done. College bound students are all about electronics ... they depend on their tech gear for work and for play. -- Hands-down, students say the computer is the device they find most useful at college .

College Fair for Aspiring Game Designers to Be Held at SIEGE 2008 in Atlanta

he Georgia Game Developers Association (GGDA) has announced it will host a college fair for high school students on Saturday, October 4, 2008 at the SIEGE 2008 event in Atlanta. The college fair, which is being held from 10 am - 2 pm for students interested in becoming game designers, programmers, artists and more, will showcase leading national schools such as SMU's Guildhall, AIA, SCAD, DeVry and Westwood.

Georgia Tech, Bryn Mawr College, Microsoft Fund New Curriculum Using Personal Robots

Through the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) -- a partnership between Georgia Tech College of Computing, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Research -- 28 high schools and universities are being provided the opportunity to enhance their introductory Computer Science curriculum using personal robots as a context for teaching foundational computing skills.

Georgia Tech, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Fund New Curriculum Using Personal Robots at 28 Schools

ATLANTA - Through the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE)—a partnership between Georgia Tech College of Computing, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Research—28 high schools and universities are being provided the op

Gunman kills 10 at Finnish college before shooting himself

A student gunman who killed 10 people at a college in Finland yesterday had been detained by police the day before because of a YouTube posting that showed him firing a handgun and threatening: "You will die next". The massacre was the second such shooting at a Finnish college in a year.

Georgia Tech, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Fund New Curriculum Using Personal Robots at 28 Schools

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 6, 2008--Through the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE)-a partnership between Georgia Tech College of Computing, Bryn Mawr College and Microsoft Research-28 high schools and universities are being provided the opportunity to enhance their introductory Computer Science curriculum using personal robots as a context for teaching foundational computing skills. Winners will share $250,000 and receive paperback book-sized robots called Scribblers, enhanced with special IPRE hardware technology, along with the IPRE software and class text.

PhytoMedical Acquires Worldwide License Rights to Patented Novel Anti-Cancer Compounds from Dartmouth College

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2008 - PhytoMedical Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:PYTO) (FWB:ET6), today announced that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Dartmouth College to develop, market and distribute new anti-tumor bis-acridines, bis-ellipticines and bis-carbazoles known as intercalating agents developed by leading researcher, Dr. Gordon Gribble, of Dartmouth College.

College Students Preserve China's Lost Art Leading Up To Beijing Olympics

showcases its rapid modernization at this summer's Beijing Olympics, an international group of college students is trying to preserve the country's rich heritage.

College Students Preserve China's Lost Art Leading Up To Beijing Olympics

ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- As China showcases its rapid modernization at this summer's Beijing Olympics, an international group of college students is trying to preserve the country's rich heritage.

College Students Preserve China's Lost Art Leading Up To Beijing Olympics

ORLANDO, Fla., Aug 04, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- As China showcases its rapid modernization at this summer's Beijing Olympics, an international group of college students is trying to preserve the country's rich heritage.

College Resources Taxed Trying to Comply with RIAA - Schools say that they just don't want to be involved

RIAA has been successful at making sure that colleges comply with rules designed to limit illegal file-sharing on campus. However, most colleges have not been pleased to be placed in the middle and asked to play copyright cops on campus. Colleges are now saying that being forced to do so is taxing the resources of college staff.

Feds give college $800,000 to teach Linux

Polk Community College and University of South Florida Polytechnic received a grant of more than $800,000 to create a four-year Linux computer-system administration program, school officials announced this week. The National Science Foundation awarded the schools money to teach students to work with the operating system, which is used by companies such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. School officials say all classes will be offered online.

Top 100 U.S. Liberal Arts College Selects Xiotech Storage System and Data Replication Software for Its Production and Remote Data Centers

Albion College Selects Magnitude 3D 4000 Storage Systems with TimeScale GeoRep to Manage Its Critical Data EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 11

Open source technology is hungry for new college grads

Many college graduates are finding it difficult to enter the information technology world with little or no work experience. There is no such thing as an entry-level position anymore, and more and more graduates are finding themselves in a catch-22 situation because of this.

Iowa college apologizes for offensive typo in school handbook

DES MOINES, Iowa - The president of an Iowa college says he's sorry about an unfortunate and offensive typo in a school handbook.

Finnish college gunman kills 10

A gunman has killed 10 people at a college in the town of Kauhajoki in Finland before shooting himself and later dying in hospital.

Newsweek: College degrees worth $800,000

Sticker shock: it's really both. Families who pay huge bills for college educations can take some consolation knowing the degrees yield lifelong dividends.

Is college still worth the price?

Costs are soaring twice as fast as inflation, even as salaries for graduates are falling. Time to examine the old belief that college is worth whatever you can pay.

The Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music is pleased to host "In Search of Freedom An Evening of Music and Conversation featuring Pianist and North Korean Defector Cheol Woong Kim" Wednesday, October 8, 7:30pm, Tsai Performance Cente

THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC IS PLEASED TO HOST "IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM AN EVENING OF MUSIC AND CONVERSATION FEATURING PIANIST AND NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR CHEOL WOONG KIM" WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 7:30PM, TSAI PERFORMANCE CENTER

Credit squeeze hits college students, families

Paying for a college education — with a price tag now north of $50,000 a year at some top-priced private schools — has never been easy.

National Science Foundation Funds Community College Nanotechnology Program

Danville Community College and Luna Innovations Incorporated have entered into a partnership to provide nanotechnology technician training to Southside Virginia residents. The partnership is being funded through a three-year, $638,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, which the NSF announced award of recently to DCC.

At Bennington College, the Library Becomes a Work of Art

Art is usually part of any good library, but at Bennington College’s (VT) Crossett Library, students, faculty, and librarians have turned the library itself into a work of art. Bennington Bookmarks, billed as “an interactive art installation” was unveiled at Crossett in May, inviting students to attach gently-glowing “bookmarks” to library materials—books, DVDs, and VHS tapes, for example; each indicates a message has been left about the item. Patrons can then access messages at one of three touch-enabled “Bookmark Stations” installed on each of the library’s three floors. The stations connect to a library database, which displays the messages in hexagons on the screen.

Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare

bcrowell writes "The LA Times has a front-page article about how open-source college textbooks are starting to gain traction. One author says, 'I couldn't continue assigning idiotic books that are starting to break $200,' and describes attempts by commercial publishers to bribe faculty to use their books. The Cal State system has started a Digital Marketplace to help faculty find out about their options for free and non-free digital textbooks, and the student group PIRG has collected 1200 faculty signatures on a statement of support for open textbooks."

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