More college professors hitting delete on laptops in classrooms The Dallas Morning News | WASHINGTON - A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. | But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction. Wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube video...
Student innovations have no takers in India The Times Of India AHMEDABAD: Around six lakh students graduate from technical institutes every year in our country and none of their 'innovative' project works is considered worthy of a patent. There exists no arrangement in our education system to recognise these efforts. | In fact, the much-touted 'black box' being...
Taiwanese student invents solar-powered lifesaver m&c | Taipei - A Taiwan student on Tuesday unveiled a lifesaver which can greatly increase a person's chance of survival after falling into the sea. | The product, called LIFEON, looks like an ordinary plastic life preserver but is a high-tech device, in...
Sir Kenneth Dover: Greek scholar and Chancellor of the University of St Andrews The Times | Sir Kenneth Dover was one of the finest and most widely respected Greek scholars of the 20th century, and held many high positions in the academic world. He became better known to a wider public in 1994 through his remarkable autobiography Marginal...
Sir Kenneth Dover obituary The Guardian | Distinguished classical scholar and academic who broke new ground with his book Greek Homosexuality | Sir Kenneth Dover was a towering academic figure. Photograph: St Andrews | Sir Kenneth Dover, who has died aged 89, was a towering figure in the s...
Students in race for state's college financial aid funds Chicago Sun-Times | The race for college financial aid is on. | Applications for state financial aid grants are being filed at a record pace. Students who don't complete applications soon could risk being shut out from state aid. » | STUDENT AID APPLICATIONS | A...
Japanese researcher showcases invention at RTP The News & Observer | RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Going outside his field of expertise earned a Japanese professor a scientific discovery and a trip to North Carolina. | Shuhei Nakamura teaches at Mie University near Nagoya, Japan, and studies materials to build ever smal...
China's Exports Rise 46% The New York Times | BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. | It was the third consecutive month of increases in Chinese exports and the fastest gro...
How the biggies around here hired and fired; supersize me, Starbucks Seattle Times | Many of the region's biggest public companies recently filed their year-end regulatory reports, revealing among other things a data point that some of them don't otherwise discuss - jobs. | The numbers provide a sobering look at how sharply many of them shrank during the Great Recession. A few, though, powered right through the downturn with hiri...
