Education

Academics are working with the U.S. military on creating a ‘perfect,’ self-healing coral reef that can withstand disease, warming temperatures and sea rise.

The University of North Carolina’s committee has realized early on that a ban on generative AI technologies was not only impractical, but could potentially hinder students in the long run.

The funds will be awarded to the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies over the next five years to support inventors developing microsystems-based point-of-care technologies.

The Campus Computing Project has launched a research initiative to examine how AI ed-tech tools and other emerging classroom technologies will change instruction in the years to come.

The EdSight dashboard was announced after the start of the 2023-2024 academic year and is regularly updated with new information, graphs and charts to make school spending, high school graduation and suspension rates, and other metrics transparent to the public.

Staff in the business office of the Marion Independent School District are stepping out of their comfort zone and using their expertise to inform educators and residents about school finance.

In her first year of teaching at Arlington Preparatory Academy in Baton Rouge, Megan Hall won District Teacher of the Year. A year prior, she was working at a Home Depot in the same city.

As educators learn how to navigate AI, the question remains how it will be used in the classroom, and one superintendent in Illinois says that answers must come from those at the local level.

The nonprofit Black Girls Do Engineer hopes to provide its member students with STEM-related access, awareness and advocacy. The group hopes to connect 2 million students to the STEM field by 2050.

A ballot question would authorize a capital projects levy to provide $5.3 million annually over 10 years to fund digital learning software, classroom tech, enhanced online security infrastructure and IT staff.

The future site of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown's planned center for advanced manufacturing, engineering and automation will soon get an overhaul funded by a $1.5 million grant.

Pittsburgh's Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute is supporting efforts to build submarines and tactical alloys for the U.S. military through a relatively new Department of Defense community initiative.

The university is working with state officials and others to identify where broadband funding is most needed, according to a recent announcement. The effort comes amid increasing societal reliance on high-speed Internet.

Rather than letting learners cope with the lifelong struggles associated with dyslexia, one technology company is using an artificial intelligence-enabled tool that corrects problems and sets them on a course toward proficiency.

Justices with the state's highest court heard oral arguments in a civil case over whether the law requires township zoning officials to seek a warrant before flying a drone over a resident's property.

The COVID pandemic seemed to worsen teens’ and adolescents’ mental health, according to several recent studies, but new research shows that telehealth may give many more kids access to support.

UC Berkeley aims to capture interest with plans for a $2 billion, 36-acre space center at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, which will feature needed classrooms, laboratories and housing.

One district reported nearly 4,000 tickets in a week, and hundreds of requests for help on any given day at the beginning of the academic year is common. Heads of tech support teams detailed how they dealt with the surges.