University of Washington

Center for AIDS Research Receives $16.5 Million

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One of the first AIDS research centers in the country has been awarded $16.5 million for the next five years to continue its trailblazing work in providing a cost-effective infrastructure for HIV/AIDS researchers. The National Institutes of Health award announced in June provides funding through May 2013, marking 25 years of funding for the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at the UW/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Metropolitan State College of Denver

Texas Tech University

  • Academic Excellence in Research

    For more than 75 years, Texas Tech University has served as a beacon of excellence in education and research in the Lone Star State. Our academic excellence is reflected in our Honors College, our chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and membership in the Association of Research Libraries.

  • Now is the Time for Texas Tech

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Texas A&M University

  • Character is stitched into the local fabric.

    Credited with saving over a billion people from starvation in his lifetime, Norman Borlaug, Texas A&M Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture and 2007 Congressional Gold Medal winner, embodies the spirit of integrity that is woven throughout the Texas A&M community.

University of North Texas

  • UNT Achieves National Prominence in Course Redesign

    In 1860, a series of fires burned several North Texas communities. Rumors began that slaves lit the fires as part of a terrorist scheme hatched by northern abolitionists. Fears were exacerbated by the pending presidential election featuring Abraham Lincoln, who was nominated on a platform opposing the spread of slavery.

University of South Carolina

  • Recognition and Awards at SC

    We've earned some of the nation's highest recognition forexcellence in research, outreach, and for academic programs such as international business. But that's just a reflection of our longstanding commitment to student learning and achievement.

Arizona State University

  • Biodesign Aims to Prevent Cancer

    ASU Biodesign Institute researchers have received nearly $9 million in grants to develop a preventive vaccine against cancer. Stephen Albert Johnston, director of the institute's Center for Innovations in Medicine, will focus his research project on breast cancer, and is one of just two recipients in the nation bestowed with a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defense's Innovator Award, funded through its Breast Cancer Research Program.

Hofstra University

  • Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize

    His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was selected as the first recipient of Hofstra's international Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize. The $50,000 prize will be presented to His Holiness on November 18, 2008 in India by a delegation including Hofstra officials, the family of Sardar Ishar Singh Bindra, which established the prize at Hofstra, and former Indian Prime Minister I.K. Gujral, a member of the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize Honorary Committee. The Dalai Lama has agreed to visit Hofstra in the near future.  

  • Presidential Debate/Educate '08

Millersville University

  • First Commonwealth Productization Center

    Millersville University has received a Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) University/Business Infrastructure Seed Grant to establish the Computer Software Productization Center (CSPC). The Center is founded on the expertise of MU faculty and students, as well as local community advisors. The CSPS initiative, the first of its kind in the Commonwealth, involves interdisciplinary collaboration.

Middle Tennessee State University

University of Akron

  • UA President Named to Council on Competitiveness Committee

    Dr. Luis M. Proenza, president of The University of Akron, was named co-chair of the Regional Leadership Institute Steering Committee of the Council on Competiveness, a non-partisan, non-governmental group in Washington, D.C., in February 2008.

The Ohio State University

  • OSU Leads Country Again In AAAS Fellows

    For the fourth time in the last five years, Ohio State University leads the country in having the most faculty chosen as "fellows" of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest scientific organization. The announcement, carried in the October 2007 issue of the journal Science, recognizes 15 Ohio State faculty for outstanding accomplishments in their respective academic disciplines, as decided by their peers. 

  • Ohio State Researchers Win Important Global Prize
  • Praiseworthy Medicine

Purdue University

  • Neil Armstrong Gives Papers to Purdue Libraries

    The personal story of the first person to land a craft on the moon and to step on its surface will live forever - in the Purdue University Libraries.

    Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong will give his alma mater personal papers that will serve as historic archives and scholarly resources, university President France A. Córdova announced Saturday (Nov. 1) during an event in the Purdue Memorial Union prior to the football game against Michigan.

  • Purdue Research Park Receiving National Acclaim

University of South Florida

  • USF President Genshaft

    At the forefront of national dialogue on the transformation of higher education, Genshaft will direct critical attention to the most pressing issues impacting universities of the future.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)

  • Beijing Olympics & Beyond

    PolyU enjoys close relationships with the Chinese national sports authorities. Since 2005, the University has been working closely with national artistic gymnastics and tennis squads. In 2006, PolyU further became a partner in research and technology development of the Chinese Olympic Committee and in 2007 a long-term collaborative partner of National Sports Training Centre. Its Faculty of Health and Social Sciences also sent its experts in a broad range of disciplines to help the athletes prepare for the Beijing Olympics.

Longwood University

  • An Honors College for "Citizen Scholars"

    The Cormier Honors College for Citizen Scholars, named in honor of Longwood University President Patricia P. Cormier and her husband Dr. Raymond Cormier, meets the needs of academically gifted and talented students through a distinctive living-learning community that links intellectual growth with the practice of citizenship. The college develops citizen leaders committed to using their learning in service to their local, national, and global communities.