The President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Thomas R. Cech, has announced that he plans to step down in the spring of 2009. Cech plans to return to academia and continue his research activities.
ScienceNow reports that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is the largest private biomedical research funder in the United States, with an endowment [...]
Nearly one in ten schools has been shut during the biggest teachers’ strike in England and Wales. More than 400,000 teachers, lecturers, civil and public servants have walked out in a one-day protest, demanding that their salaries be increased by 4.1 percent.
The BBC reports that the one-day teachers’ protest was condemned by all the main [...]
According to Pew Internet & American Life Project and the College Board’s National Commission on Writing study around two thirds of 700 students surveyed admit that they often use e-communication styles in school assignments. As a result, some students omit punctuation and capitalization, while others use emotions or text shortcuts like “LOL” [...]
David Rockefeller, the youngest and the only surviving child and grandchild of the prominent John D. Rockefeller, is donating $100 million to Harvard University. The Rockefeller donation will be used both to support international study programs for undergraduates at Harvard as well as the university’s efforts to expand its arts education.
The New York Times reports [...]
The Bush administration has submitted a written proposal to the Congress seeking to buy student credit loans. By doing so, the administration hopes to provide capital to lenders for new student loans and to make sure that the nation’s credit crunch does not prevent students from borrowing money for receiving a higher education.
The New York [...]
The Fiske Museum at California’s Claremont Colleges has sold its collection of rare musical instruments to the Musical Instrument Museum which will open in 2010. The project to build the new museum is backed financially by Robert Ulrich, chairman of the Target Corporation.
The Claremont Colleges’ collection of rare musical instruments includes an 18th century Italian [...]
The Charles R. Drew University plans to build a new facility for its Nursing School students, staff and professors. The construction of the new building, which is the first comprehensive training facility to be built in California in years, should be completed in Fall 2009.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the building of the new [...]
Sallie Mae, the Reston, Va., based student loan company, has lost $104 million in one quarter. The company has been suffering from financial problems since last year and a reshuffling of its top management as well as a failed buyout.
According to Democratic Underground, Sallie Mae has eliminated about 1,000 jobs over the past six months [...]
The number of American high school students who drop out without graduating is increasing. To solve this problem and to improve the skills of the nation’s work force, AT&T plans to present a $100 million gift to the program that fights against dropouts.
Yahoo! Finance reports that according to AT&T, the unemployment rate among Americans with [...]
Once intended to allow for easy accessibility, online education creates copyright problems between U.S universities and academic publishers. Three prominent academic publishers — Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Sage Publications — have sued Georgia State University, accusing it of using their copyrighted academic materials in digital format.
The lawsuit is the first of its [...]