The Chronicle of Higher Education

Higher Colleges of Technology

Educational Technology Takes Learning to the Next Level at the HCT

Educational Technology at the Higher Colleges of Technology is driven by the principal that technology helps to engage students in learning process. Students across 16 HCT campuses learn in a technologically sophisticated educational environment that encourages the development of independent and life-long learning skills, necessary to succeed in a fast changing world.

The University of Hong Kong

A New Application for an Old Drug

The threat of a new influenza pandemic has emerged as one of the leading health concerns of the 21st century. But while pharmaceutical companies race to develop a successful vaccine, scholars at HKU are employing a distinctly Chinese approach to the problem.

Texas A&M University

Embryo Fights Retroviral Infection

Some viruses insert themselves into the host’s DNA during infection in a process called retroviral integration, causing several diseases, including AIDS and cancer, notes a Texas A&M researcher who specializes in fetal diseases. However, stem cells that give rise to the early embryo and yolk sac fight back, inhibiting further infection by aggressively silencing the invading viral DNA, says Michael Golding of the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology.
Veterinary Researchers Achieve Cloning First

Technische Universitat Darmstadt

Economic Disparities and Public Health Correlation

A study conducted by Martin Karlsson, a health economist at the TU Darmstadt, in collaboration with Lund University, Sweden, indicates that the greater the economic disparity in a country, the worse the state of the health of its population will be. Karlsson’s work differs from earlier, similar studies in that it employed a worldwide database based on surveys conducted in 21 countries.

Hofstra University

National Center for Suburban Studies®

Hofstra University's focus on the suburbs came into sharp relief in fall 2009, with the release of its third national poll - the first ever to address the attitudes of minority suburbanites. The poll, which also focused on the impact of the economic crisis on suburbia, coincided with an NCSS conference on diversity in the suburbs. The conference was the largest in the University's history, and brought together national and international academic experts, activists and policymakers to examine the impact of shifting demographics in the suburbs and hash out the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.

Goethe University Frankfurt

The Holbein Madonna in Transformation

Hans Holbein’s Madonna is – along with Albrecht Dürer’s Four Apostles – the most prominent work of German Renaissance painting. Jochen Sander, professor at Frankfurt University, examined the famous Renaissance painting with infrared reflectography and in the process acquired new knowledge about the origin of this work of art.
New Findings on the Magnetic Orientation of Birds

The University of Scranton

Serving the Underserved

“Melting pot,” “salad bowl,” whichever metaphor is used to describe American society, we live in a nation of many different cultures. Ethnicity, religion, age, gender and sexual identity are all aspects of culture and combined they equate to one of main challenges for the vocational rehabilitation counselor.

University of North Texas

Computational Epidemiology

Researchers at the newly formed Center for Computational Epidemiology and Response Analysis at the University of North Texas are trying to answer critical questions — Where and how rapidly does the disease spread? Should public transportation be limited? In a shortage, who should be vaccinated? — before a public health emergency actually occurs. Their goal is to develop tools that could help us better understand — and ultimately respond to — infectious disease outbreaks. Using high-performance computers, students and faculty are creating predictive models that simulate disease outbreaks and help public health officials respond.
Studying aircraft fatigue

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Information Quality Establishes Value

Right from the start, Acxiom Corporation saw the value in financially supporting the new Information Quality program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. As the world leader in data management, Acxiom had executives who recognized that developing a graduate program in Information Quality just a few miles away from its global headquarters in Little Rock would provide outstanding professional development opportunities for its employees in the data quality field and also help build a skilled local workforce from which they could hire later.

1994 group

Tackling Cyberbullying

Advances in technology mean that now almost everyone has a mobile phone or internet access; with this huge increase in electronic communication comes the dark world of cyberbullying – a specific type of bullying by electronic means, including texts, video clips (eg ‘happy slapping’), hoax calls, and malicious behaviour through e-mails, social networking sites (eg Facebook, MySpace, Bebo), through blogs, and instant messaging (eg MSN).

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Cool Fuel

In the fight to reduce our society's dependency on fossil fuels and minimize the ravages of climate change, one weapon stands out: biofuel, made from renewable plant material called biomass. UMass Amherst is proud to count among its own George Huber, a leading biofuel researcher who serves as John and Elizabeth Armstrong Professional Development Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering.