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MIT student defends MBTA hacking research - Monday, August 18, 2008
After he's done with his security dust up with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Zack Anderson plans on slightly different work: A company that turns heat from a car's...
Foreign students labeled 'threats' - Monday, June 23, 2008
A group of foreign oceanography graduate students got a scare when they recently applied to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for access to U.S. ports where their research...
As students arrive, Cal sets up new campus warning system - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
C-Berkeley welcomed students this week with a three-day party in the gymnasium and reassured their anxious parents with a new high-tech warning system.
For several days, new and returning...
Malaysian Student Believed Missing In Australia - Thursday, October 30, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian student in Australia, Norzarifah Kamarauzaman, 21, is believed missing after family members failed to contact her for three weeks now.
The final year geology...
Gunshot sensors placed at Johns Hopkins University - Tuesday, November 18, 2008
BALTIMORE - A sensor network has been installed at Johns Hopkins University that will allow police to pinpoint the source of gunfire.
In a memo to students, the university says 93 detector...
Wi-Fi May Help College Students Get Better Grades - Tuesday, October 07, 2008
But students can be distracted from classwork, too, as more than half in a survey said they checked Facebook or MySpace and sent or received e-mail while in class.
Use Wi-Fi, get better...
Not enough students for job offers - Sunday, June 15, 2008
Every week, John Popovitch receives between 25 and 30 job postings for full-time positions in the information technology sector. But as the employment development officer in Vanier College's...
Students needed - Tuesday, October 07, 2008
CEGEPS and tech colleges have employers calling to court graduates but job offers go unfilled because there are not enough students
Every week, John Popovitch receives between 25 and...
Black students in South performing better on tests - Tuesday, July 14, 2009
ATLANTA - A new government study shows black students in many Southern states are improving test scores in math and reading, but not enough to narrow an achievement gap with their white...
50 Student Teams Wanted for World's Largest Rocket Competition - Wednesday, September 02, 2009
ARLINGTON - Registration for the
world's largest rocket competition, the Team America Rocketry Challenge, is open to 750 student teams in grades 7-12 from any U.S. school, home school...
