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Rep. John Murtha died as a result of recent gallbladder surgery complications that arose from doctors accidentally nicking Murtha's intestines, a source told CNN.

In his hectic, noisy laboratory at the University of Maryland, Michael Pecht is wary when it comes to assessing whether Toyota's suggested repair of sticky gas pedals will have any real impact.

A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported Monday.

Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to Michael Jackson, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the pop star's death last summer.

A woman convicted in the 2002 kidnapping of Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty in the attempted kidnapping of Smart's cousin a month later, court officials said Monday.

02-07-2010

Paul E. Debevec may be the only research professor whose laboratory subjects have included Charlize Theron and Will Smith. The University of Southern California computer scientist is about to take another unlikely step—from academe to the Academy Awards, for special effects. His pixel wizardry has been featured in films such as Spider-Man 2 and Avatar.

On February 20, in a black-tie geek gala hosted by the actress Elizabeth Banks, of Zack and Miri Make a Porno,...

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01-31-2010

Tablet-style computers could be game-changers for colleges, pushing the adoption of electronic textbooks over a tipping point and bringing in a new era of classroom collaboration. Last week's announcement by Apple Inc. of the iPad tablet has major textbook publishers rejoicing, some education watchers predicting a wave of student purchases, and at least one college saying it will consider giving them to all incoming students.

But wait—it might be time to take a deep breath to...

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01-31-2010

Lindsay A. Thompson was shocked when she and her colleagues perused several hundred of their students' Facebook pages a few years ago. The students had posted pictures from alcohol-soaked parties and gag photos of cross-dressing, and joined groups with acronyms like PIMP.

Nothing unusual for Facebook, of course, but the profiles did not belong to undergraduates; they belonged to medical students and residents at the University of Florida, where Dr. Thompson is an assistant professor...

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01-27-2010

Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast talk about the chief financial officer’s role in...

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01-24-2010

Learning is no game on today's college campuses. It's serious work that many students dread. Yet when those same students play video games like World of Warcraft, they happily spend hours on difficult tasks, and actually learn quite a bit in the process.

Granted, what those gamers learn is how to cast spells and fell dragons, which hardly counts toward a college degree. But Constance Steinkuehler argues that there's a good model of teaching in those popular amusements.

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In this free February 12 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar, National Broadband: Policies and Opportunities for Higher Education, special guest, Steve Midgley, and host, Steve Worona, will discuss the National Broadband Plan. The FCC was authorized to create the National Broadband Plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Midgely, head of the FCC’s Education team for the National Broadband Plan, will introduce the plan and some of the areas his team has been investigating, including online content; distance learning; standards, transparency, and interoperability; and educational broadband infrastructure.  

The EDUCAUSE Ryland Fellowship and Balestri Scholarship were established to expand opportunities for information technology professionals to attend EDUCAUSE professional development programs and help build our future leaders. EDUCAUSE funds these programs solely from its operating budget to support leadership development in our community.

The programs recognize a combination of past achievement, personal and institutional commitment, potential benefit, and financial need.

View the 2010 recipients.
Learn more about the program.

 

The ten most widely read online EDUCAUSE Review articles from 2009 focused on current IT issues, emerging technologies, learning spaces, the wiki-ized university, open educational resources, faculty development, and teaching & learning challenges.

1. Top-Ten IT Issues, 2009
Anne Scrivener Agee, Catherine Yang, and the 2009 EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee

2. Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality
Bryan Alexander

In this free February 3 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar, What Happened to the Computer Lab?, special guest, Beth Schaefer, and host, Steve Worona,will discuss low-cost changes that can be made to the design, layout, and operation of existing computer labs to meet both the changing needs of students and the necessities of the economic recession.

EDUCAUSE is now collecting data for this year's Core Data Service (CDS) which will capture fiscal year 2008-2009 data on campus IT environments. Eligible institutions should complete this year's survey by April 2. View the 956 respondents that participated last year.

EDUCAUSE launched the CDS to provide comparison data about campus information technology environments and practices to help members benchmark and plan for IT at their institutions. View the Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2008 Summary Report.

"RV 177 >Civil rights activist Diane Nash, who as a founding members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) coordinated and participated in the "Freedom Rides" at the apex of the turbulence in the civil rights movements in the early 1960s, will speak to Brenau students at Pearce Auditorium on the Gainesville campus at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18. The event is free and open to the public. Nash, a native and current resident of Chicago, was a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., when she decided to do something about the extreme racial prejudice she was feeling in the southern city. She joined the fast-growing cadre of black and white college students committed, often at great personal peril, to conducting sit-ins at segregated lunch counters, bus boycotts, voter registration drives and other nonviolent protests in the fight for voter and racial equality. Nash, who occasionally landed in jail because of her activities, touched virtually every major event in the historic movement from the violence in Birmingham to the Selma march for voter rights to the march on Washington. Among many awards and honors she has received is the 2008 National Freedom Award presented by the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. Previous recipients cited for contributions to civil rights and human rights Nelson Mandela, President Jimmy Carter, Rosa Parks, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Oprah Winfrey, Thurgood Marshall, President Bill Clinton and Sidney Poitier. Nash appears under the aegis of the Silhouettes student organization for the celebration of Black History Month. For questions regarding this event please contact Dean of Student Life Valerie Walston at vsimmons-walston@brenau.edu or Silhouettes President Jill Ford jford@tiger.brenau.edu. To read the news release about Nash´s Brenau appearance in its entirety, <a href="http://www2009.brenau.edu/index.cfm?objectid=AF873A8C-65B3-FE26-02936E2F4BF231E7" target="_blank">click here</a>. "

"RV 176 >Brenau Academy will host an open house March 27 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.so you can experience of slice of academy life. You can come on your own, but be sure to bring prospective students to meet the teachers, the students,and staff of Brenau Academy - all of whom will be delighted to greet you on campus for conversation, questions and answers, or just getting a better look at the institution. Contact lnicholson@brenau.edu for more information. "

"RV 172 >First Dr. Randy May shares a grant from the organization to create some statewide workshops on improving education in science and math. Then he is elected co-chair for 2010 for Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) Atlanta Regional Network, an association of about 25 colleges and universities in Georgia that are members of the American Association of Colleges and Universities organization that advances and funds work on improving undergraduate education in the so-called STEM disciplines, which stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics).May along with Dr. J.B. Sharma, professor and eminent scholar of physics at Gainesville State College, and Dr. Lynn Zimmermann, senior vice provost of external academic affairs at Emory University, received a $17,500 grant late last year from the University System of Georgia and Project Kaleidoscope for our development of the workshops. The first took place at Gainesville State College on Nov. 6. The second is scheduled at Georgia Gwinnett College on April 2. The workshops attract both college and university professors as well as K-12 educators who can obtain continuing education credits for attending. <br> "

"RV 171 >Based on tomorrow´s weather forecast, the Brenau Golden Tigers tennis team season opener vs. North Georgia has been re-scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. at the Smithgall Tennis Center on the Gainescille campus. <a href="http://www.brenautigers.com/sport/7/5.php"target="_blank">Click here </a> for complete schedule and statistics about the team. "

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