There was a time when a generic education or a simple college business degree and a law degree was more than enough to craft a career as an advocate. Of course, that was a time when there were far less attorneys at work as well. Today, there are so many ...
Registration open for Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl
Posted On Friday, November 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, PUERTO RICO Tags: Department of Energy’s National Science, NSB finals competition, Patricia M. Dehmer, Puerto Rico
Teams of high school and middle school students across the country can now register to compete in the 24th annual Department of Energy’s National Science Bowl. Thousands of students compete in the contest annually; it has grown into one of the largest academic math and science competitions in the country.
The ...
LSU Partners with OfficeMax to Reduce Office Supply Costs
Posted On Monday, October 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, LOUISIANA Tags: E. J. Ourso College of Business, LSU GeauxShop, Reduce Office Supply Costs
BATON ROUGE – In an effort to reduce costs, LSU has entered into a partnership with OfficeMax as the office supply vendor for the university through LSU GeauxShop. This five-year partnership agreement will help LSU to realize lower costs, take advantage of greater discounts and have the ability to analyze ...
NMSU selects firm to assist with search for vice president for university advancement
Posted On Friday, October 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, NEW MEXICO Tags: Betty Turner Asher, Greenwood, Jan Greenwood, New Mexico State University, NMSU Foundation, university advancement
New Mexico State University has selected executive search firm Greenwood/Asher & Associates to assist in the institution’s search for its next vice president for university advancement and president of the NMSU Foundation.
Greenwood/Asher is a global search and consulting firm with extensive experience in executive searches in higher education, including NMSU. ...
Air Force Vets Who Helped Pioneer Chinese Language Study at Yale Return to Campus
Posted On Saturday, September 28, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CONNECTICUT, FEATURED Tags: Air Force vets, Association of Yale Alumni, Chinese language, Institute of Far Eastern Languages, Yale return to campus, Yale Romanization
Half a century after they helped Yale refine a new method of language study, 28 retired Air Force personnel who learned Chinese at the university during the 1950s and 1960s returned to campus on Sept. 25, many for the first time since their student days.
The men were once students at ...
Free Public Breast Cancer Conference Slated for Oct. 4
Posted On Sunday, September 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, VERMONT Tags: Alumni, Burlington, Faculty, largest breast cancer conference, parents, Sheraton, STAFF, UVM students, young women
UVM students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and friends are invited to attend this year’s breast cancer conference on Friday, Oct. 4 at the Sheraton, Burlington. This event, the largest breast cancer conference in the Northeast, has content for everyone — from those who wish to learn more about breast health ...
Wisconsin Science Festival features Nobel, Pulitzer Prize winners and NPR host
Posted On Saturday, September 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, WISCONSIN Tags: Laura Heisler, Vivian Torrence, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Wisconsin Science, Wisconsin Science Festival
The Wisconsin Science Festival starts Sept. 26 with four jam-packed days, inviting people of all ages and interests to unleash their curiosity.
Anchored in Madison, with events also taking place across Wisconsin, the third year of this annual festival promises to be the biggest and most exciting yet.
“This is a unique, ...
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...
University Student Population On The Rise with Students increasing Course Loads
Posted On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, NEVADA Tags: increased 4 percent, President Marc Johnson, Undergraduate student enrollment, University of Nevada
With its largest and most diverse freshmen class to date, the University of Nevada, Reno welcomed 18,776 undergraduate and graduate students to campus this fall. This reflects a 3 percent increase over the fall 2012 enrollment of 18,227. Freshmen account for 3,086 students, a 7 percent increase over last fall's ...
A New Approach to Teaching: Mid-Columbia Prepares for Changes in Standards
Posted On Monday, September 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, PUERTO RICO Tags: Chuck Lybeck, Common Core State Standards, Kathy Hayden, Kim Maldonado, Maldonado
Washington's not just getting new standardized tests next year, it's getting a whole new approach to teaching math and language arts.
The Common Core State Standards are supposed to better prepare students for a college education and post-academic life by teaching them how to apply what they've learned to real life. ...
Two Veterinary Medicine Students Earn Firsts For Their Clinical Cases
Posted On Thursday, September 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, KANSAS Tags: College of Veterinary Medicine, David Anderson, Kansas State University, Meredyth Jones, theriogenology, veterinary medicine student
MANHATTAN -- Two Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine students each captured first place in their respective competitions at the recent annual conference of the Society for Theriogenologists and American College of Theriogenologists in Louisville, Ky. In veterinary medicine, theriogenology is study of the different aspects of reproduction.
Jessica Klabnik-Bradford, ...
Groomed for Success: High Energy Neurosurgeon Combines Love of Barns and Brains
Posted On Sunday, September 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, TENNESSEE Tags: Groomed for Success, Lola Chambless, Vanderbilt Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
This is where Lola Chambless, M.D., ’05, trades her blue cotton scrubs for jeans and cowboy boots. Where she puts down the scalpel and picks up supple leather reins. Where she leaves the sterile operating room for meadows, creeks and horse trails.
It’s this balance (perhaps with a common thread of ...
Tuberculosis Genomes Portray Secrets of Pathogen’s Success
Posted On Friday, August 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, WISCONSIN Tags: Caitlin Pepperell, medical microbiology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, resist countermeasures, Tuberculosis
By any measure, tuberculosis (TB) is a wildly successful pathogen. It infects as many as two billion people in every corner of the world, with a new infection of a human host estimated to occur every second.
Now, thanks to a new analysis of dozens of tuberculosis genomes gathered from around ...
Governor’s School for Excellence Brings Talented High School Students to Campus
Posted On Thursday, August 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under DELAWARE, FEATURED Tags: Gov. Jack Markell, Governor’s School for Excellence, Jason Thompson, Joseph Peterson, Lloyd Shorter, University of Delaware
Aug., 2013--For a week in the summer, some of Delaware’s brightest and most creative high school students call the University of Delaware home. The Governor’s School for Excellence, now in its 34th year, brought 125 students to campus where they took academic classes, worked in small musical and theatre ensembles ...
Stunning Images of Andromeda Demonstrate the World’s Most Powerful Astronomical Camera
Posted On Monday, August 19, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, NEW JERSEY Tags: Andromeda Galaxy, astrophysicists, cosmic census, Hyper-Suprime Cam, Michael Strauss, Princeton University, Robert Lupton
Stunning images of the Andromeda Galaxy are among the first to emerge from a new wide-field camera installed on the enormous Subaru Telescope atop the Hawaiian mountain Mauna Kea. The camera, called the Hyper-Suprime Cam (HSC), is the result of an international collaboration between Princeton University astrophysicists and Japanese and ...
Study Shows Jim Crow-Era Segregation Persists in Texas Schools
Posted On Friday, August 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, TEXAS Tags: English Language Learner, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Julian Vasquez Heilig, Texas Education Agency, University of Texas
AUSTIN, Texas — A first-of-its-kind study from researchers in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin shows that, in addition to being isolated by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, English language learners in Texas schools also are separated by language, suffering what has been termed “triple segregation.”
Education ...
Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to iRobot
Posted On Monday, August 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Artificial Intelligence Lab, disruptive companies, iRobot, MIT spinoff, packing and unpacking, Rethink Robotics
Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful robots. He’s since moved on to robots that are bigger, but no less revolutionary.
Brooks’ newest startup, Rethink Robotics, headquartered in Boston, is producing robots that ...
MSU Extension Experts will Answer Questions at Farmers’ Market in Bozeman
Posted On Saturday, July 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MONTANA Tags: Gallatin Valley, Montana Master Gardener program, Montana State University, MontGuides
BOZEMAN – Montana State University Extension horticulturist and Montana Master Gardener program coordinator Toby Day will be the guest specialist at the Extension booth at the Gallatin Valley Farmers’ Market at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds on Saturday, July 27.
Day will highlight the best trees and shrubs for the home landscape, ...