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July 27, 2009
Bruce Jacob, a computer-engineering professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, builds guitars with tiny circuit boards to provide a greater range of tones. Now he and his students have created a company that sells the instruments.
Almost 200 colleges may soon meet the federal designation of "Hispanic serving," and they should work to increase their retention and graduation rates, says a new report.
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute found that people with bachelor's degrees were more likely than recipients of only high-school diplomas to take liberal stances.
The chief conservator of one of the stricken nation's major libraries is working with Brown University and others to save a part of his people's cultural patrimony.
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