University News
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Just as businesses are using location data to identifying top talent, universities are utilizing the geolocation opportunities to pinpoint high performing students and to encourage them to enroll with their institutions.
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Garden City -
Kali Chan, the Director of Media Relations at Adelphi University, has been nominated for the 2018 "Best of Long Island" competition.
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By AFP
Preston -
When they signed up to study in the Caribbean they thought they were heading for an island paradise. But when Hurricane Irma devastated Sint Maarten, they ended up being transferred to drizzly northern England instead.
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By AFP
Nairobi -
Campuses at one of Kenya's largest universities were closed on Tuesday after demonstrations broke out ahead of the country's tense presidential election re-run, a university official said.
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By AFP
London -
The Oxford University college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied said Saturday it had taken down a portrait of the Myanmar leader, a decision that follows widespread criticism of her over the Rohingya crisis.
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Vienna -
Researchers have designed a smart artificial intelligence tool that can diagnose heart problems using a smartphone camera. The end-product development and new start-up forms part of an initiative called START:IP.
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By AFP
Washington -
Harvard University revoked convicted US intelligence leaker and transgender activist Chelsea Manning's visiting fellowship position on Friday after sharp criticism from the Central Intelligence Agency.
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By AFP
Washington -
CIA director Mike Pompeo pulled out of a Harvard forum and former acting director Mike Morrell quit the university Thursday to protest its appointment of convicted intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning as a visiting fellow.
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By AFP
Atenas -
More than 100 Greek university students have been caught in a mass cheating scandal, the state agency ANA reported Tuesday.
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By AFP
Maiduguri -
A giant bulldozer digs a deep ditch among the bushes surrounding the University of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, turning it into a fortress to prevent further suicide attacks by Boko Haram.
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By AFP
Mosul -
Amid buildings destroyed by heavy fighting, University of Mosul students are returning to take exams interrupted three years ago when jihadists took control of their city.
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By AFP
Mosul -
Amid buildings destroyed by heavy fighting, University of Mosul students are returning to take exams interrupted three years ago when jihadists took control of their city.
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By AFP
Mosul -
Amid buildings destroyed by heavy fighting, University of Mosul students are returning to take exams interrupted three years ago when jihadists took control of their city.
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By AFP
Paris -
One in five children in rich countries lives in relative poverty, according to a UNICEF report published Thursday that put the US and New Zealand among the world's worst performers for youth well-being.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter on Wednesday canceled a planned appearance at the University of California, Berkeley, saying she had lost the backing of the groups that had sponsored her talk.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
Two conservative groups filed a lawsuit against the University of California at Berkeley claiming that a decision to cancel an appearance by the firebrand pundit Ann Coulter violated their right to free speech.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
The University of California at Berkeley on Thursday reversed its decision to cancel a talk by right-wing commentator Ann Coulter, offering a new date and venue for the event.
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By AFP
Los Angeles -
The University of California at Berkeley appears headed for a showdown with right-wing commentator Ann Coulter after her planned appearance at the school was canceled over security concerns.
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By AFP
Madrid -
Two Spanish university professors and three other suspects have been charged over the alleged sale of a "fake" cancer drug that raked in more than 600,000 euros, police said Tuesday.
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By AFP
London -
China's Peking University is buying a 19th-century manor house near Oxford in southern England to use as a campus in a multimillion-dollar deal, the estate agent handling the deal told AFP on Thursday.
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By AFP
Lille -
A lawyer from Sudan, a footballer from Iran, an aeronautical engineer from Eritrea: They are among 80 migrants who have traded France's "Jungle" tent camp for a chance to earn a French degree and a new life.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
The direct appointment of university rectors by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since July's failed coup has stirred up tensions on campus and prompted claims of political interference in the education sector.
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By AFP
Kanpala -
A day after Uganda's president ordered the closure of one of Africa's oldest universities, 23-year old Gabriel Deng was hurriedly stuffing his belongings into rucksacks in a rundown student hostel.
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Which is the best university in the world? This can be judged on many levels, from academic quality to the student experience. How about the proportion of Nobel Prize winners?
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Google has announced a new style of card it's adding to its search results. Searching for a school or university will now show relevant data within the search page, letting you check details like graduation and acceptance rates without leaving Google.
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By AFP
Istanbul -
Turkey on Friday detained dozens of academics suspected of backing Fethullah Gulen, the alleged mastermind of last month's failed coup, while pressing ahead with raids on businesses linked to the US-based Muslim preacher.
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By AFP
Shanghai -
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time on Monday, but Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year.
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By AFP
Shanghai -
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time on Monday, but Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year.
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By AFP
Shanghai -
Universities from mainland China broke into the global top 100 in an annual ranking for the first time on Monday, but Harvard remained number one for the 14th consecutive year.
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By AFP
Tripoli -
Libya's pro-government forces said they seized a university campus Wednesday as they press an offensive against the Islamic State group in its stronghold of Sirte, killing at least 20 jihadists.
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On campus at UNC Via Flickr user photo_vytx
Faculty of biology and medicine at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain Carlos Delgado
CyFair region of Lone Star College Via Lone Star College
Notre Dame University, Bond Hall. Notre Dame University
Turkish university students with Lonna Lisa Williams
Charlotte Tindle bought a house boat to avoid the costs of university accomodation in Fulham, London The Evening Standard
A view of Oikos University in Oakland, using Google Street View Street View photo
The Minister of State for Science and Technology, Canada, Gary Goodyear meeting the Indian Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, in New Delhi on November 09, 2010. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India
University of Colorado 2009 - 420 Celebration- Clouds of Pot Smoke rising above the crowd of almost 15,000 well-behaved, stoned and smiling partiers. flickr stonerboy420
Napping helped to pass the time for Tent City residents. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
Owners of first and second place spots in line at Tent City. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
Robert A. Millikan Memorial Library — at Caltech, Pasadena. Canon.vs.nikon
Handout from a now-defunct university course in homoeopathy. David Colquhoun
Handout from a now-defunct university course in homoeopathy. David Colquhoun
Tent City lines Stadium Drive for nearly a half mile. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark. September 24, 2010.
Handout from a now-defunct university course in homoeopathy. David Colquhoun
University students relaxing near their quad Tulane Public Relations
Old Main on the campus of the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark.
MIT Building 10 and the Great Dome, Cambridge Massachusetts. John Phelan
One of the creative spaces at Kingston University, here students can research and access IT facilities.
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