Chapel Hill, NC Ranks At Top, Athens, Georgia at Bottom The Daily Beast released its ranking of the twenty five smartest (and dumbest) college towns in America. The towns are, from smartest to dumbest: 1. Chapel Hill, North Carolina(Grade: A) 2. Ann Arbor, Michigan(Grade: A) 3. Boulder, Colorado(Grade: A) 4. Cambridge, Massachusetts(Grade: A) 5. Berkeley, [...]
Two grand prize winners have innovations related to cell engineering and tools for quadriplegics A faster tool for cell programming and a new way of allowing quadriplegics to perform simple tasks have won grand prizes of the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame sponsored by the Abbott Fund, [...]
Strongly support career education A survey released today, commissioned by the Career College Association and conducted by Harris Interactive(R), finds the American public sees a clear link between higher education and global workforce competitiveness and strongly supports alternative approaches to postsecondary education. The survey also finds strong support for a decision to attend a career [...]
New edition includes specialty rankings and online guides for admission and paying for college – U.S. News Media Group released the 2010 edition of America’s Best Colleges, which includes rankings of more than 1,400 schools nationwide. Harvard University and Princeton University tie the top of the list for Best National Universities, while Williams College is [...]
Adds 3 More Solar Projects – Campus Now 44 percent Solar College Strives to Be Carbon Neutral by 2015; Solar Projects Projected to Save College $32.6 Million Over 20 Years With national attention focused on renewable energy policies, Butte College cemented its leadership in use of solar power by unveiling three new solar projects which [...]
Argo is an innovative e-learning environment for education as well as training of automotive mechanics/technicians, built on the basis of gaming/3D animations. Argo is unique in providing a state-of-the-art, very practical and hands-on online learning environment, where students learn by virtually working on a car in 3D highly interactive simulations, ranging from the underlying principles [...]