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California's community college system continues to see steep declines in enrollment as students contend with financial and logistical hurdles compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts are uncertain of a rebound.
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The UT Education and Research Center at Laredo will include a first-of-its-kind School of Biomedical Informatics, dealing with data science, A.I., clinical and health informatics, bioinformatics and systems medicine.
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Preparations for the fall must include strategies to defend against the rising tide of ransomware and other security threats.
Starting next year, a 22-seat autonomous electric bus will run a 2.5-mile route on Michigan State University's campus, communicating with traffic lights and operating with a driver present but inactive unless necessary.
The editorial board of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review commends the college for being open with the public about a recent ransomware attack and shutting down classes Monday and Tuesday to be safe.
University researchers have created a prototype that measures respiration and can be worn like an insulin pump, so if the wearer stops breathing and moving for 15 seconds, it administers naloxone.
The university broke ground this week on renovations that will allow the power plant to burn less fossil fuels while making electricity through two turbines, and use waste heat to boil water into steam to heat campus.
The Illinois school's computer network, including phones, email and applications, went down early this morning due to a ransomware attack, prompting administrators to close campus for the day.
The center will give students research experience with companies such as AONDevices and BrainLeap Technologies, developing new products with artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other emerging technologies.
College funding experts are expecting the popularity of e-gifting programs to continue growing as college gets harder to afford, 529 plans see double-digit growth, and supply chain problems delay other gifts.
Storing so much personally identifiable information, research and other data, colleges and universities have become frequent targets of cyber criminals. To qualify for cyber insurance, they must have some controls in place.
After administrators noticed unusual activity on the university's network on Nov. 11, users started reporting issues with Wi-Fi, email, coursework submissions and other functions, which some have attributed to a virus.
The University of Central Florida beat teams from 105 universities in a contest requiring them to build, secure and defend a complex network of systems and devices used by oil companies, electric companies and others.
The university's new 74,000-square-foot building has an incubator space intended to grow startups that solve real-world problems, touching everything from cellphones to health care to education to the environment.
The University at Albany this week held a ribbon-cutting for its Emerging Technology and Entrepreneurship Complex, which houses programs such as atmospheric sciences, emergency services and homeland security.
Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded the university a five-year contract for research and development of autonomy technologies, including machine learning, neuromorphic computing and data exploitation.
