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10/1/2013

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Carnegie Mellon U Project Aims To Improve the Web for People with Disabilities
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have received a $748,000 grant to develop methods for improving the Web and cloud applications for people with disabilities.
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Federal Research Funding Drops 9 Percent in Latest Data
New data reveal that annual federal funding for research has dropped 9 percent in the post-stimulus era, losing about $6 billion after 2010, with no overall improvement expected at least through 2013.
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39 Colleges and Universities Receive SIP Grants To Serve Low-Income Students
The United States Department of Education has awarded $20.1 million in grants through the Strengthening Institutions Program, a competitive grant designed to help colleges and universities improve their ability to serve lo-income students.
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10 Universities Win $250,000 Research Grants from NASA
NASA will award 10 one-year grants worth approximately $250,000 each for the "study of innovative, early stage space technologies that address high priority technical needs America's space program must master to enable future missions," according to an agency news release.
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U Oregon Receives $1.6 Million To Operate Support Center for Kids with Disabilities
The University of Oregon has been awarded $1.6 million in federal funds to operate the National Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, an organization that supports children with disabilities.
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U Massachusetts To Save $30 Million with Solar Energy
The University of Massachusetts has partnered with two local municipalities and a renewable energy supplier to build a pair of solar projects that will save the school an estimated $1 million per year in energy costs.
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Who Doesn't Use the Internet: the Elderly, the Poor, and the Uneducated
According to a new report released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 15 percent of American adults do not use the Internet. Age, income level, and educational attainment were all strongly tied in with usage patterns.
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Ohio State U Recognized by EPA for Use of Wind Power
Ohio State University has been named a Green Power Partner of the Year by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, in part due to its use of wind-generated electricity.
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Researchers Get $12.5 Million To Study Network Complexity
The United States Army has decided that investing millions of dollars into research that examines why an outage in the power grid might cause failures in gas distribution several states over or how a malicious tweet could bring down an entire stock market system is worthwhile. The focus: to better understand behaviors of collective phenomena in complex systems — networks — and figure out how they can be controlled.
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Texas A&M, UT Austin Bring Geosciences to High Schools
The DIG Texas program has received federal funding to bring its activities to the high school level. DIG Texas is a statewide, multi-institutional effort — led by Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin — whose aim is to increase diversity in geosciences and to give teachers in Texas training and resources to teach geosciences more effectively.
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U Minnesota Joins with Teach for America for New Teacher Prep Program
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities will team up with Teach for America to create an alternative teacher preparation program for TFA participants, a first for the state.
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Purdue Rolls Out Visual Analytics Law Enforcement Toolkit
Purdue University's Homeland Security Center of Excellence has produced a new analytics tool for first responders and law enforcement, the Visual Analytics Law Enforcement Toolkit (VALET).
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UNIT4 Releases Agresso Research Costing and Pricing
UNIT4, the maker of the Agresso Education ERP suite, has released a costing and pricing tool for university research projects that was developed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.
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U Delaware Community To Text Crime Alerts to Cops
The University of Delaware has adopted a mobile app for Android and Apple devices that allows the user to make a tip to the police.
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