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Tackling Cyberbullying

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Advances in technology mean that now almost everyone has a mobile phone or internet access; with this huge increase in electronic communication comes the dark world of cyberbullying – a specific type of bullying by electronic means, including texts, video clips (eg ‘happy slapping’), hoax calls, and malicious behaviour through e-mails, social networking sites (eg Facebook, MySpace, Bebo), through blogs, and instant messaging (eg MSN).

Metropolitan State College of Denver

Higher Colleges of Technology

  • Educational Technology

    Educational Technology at the Higher Colleges of Technology is driven by the principal that technology helps to engage students in learning process. Students across 16 HCT campuses learn in a technologically sophisticated educational environment that encourages the development of independent and life-long learning skills, necessary to succeed in a fast changing world. 

Texas Tech University

  • TIEHH Strives to Protect, Enhance Lives

    Researchers and students at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) and the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas Tech University study how toxic chemicals impact the environment and people and use science-based risk assessment to support sound environmental policy and law.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Cool Fuel

    In the fight to reduce our society's dependency on fossil fuels and minimize the ravages of climate change, one weapon stands out: biofuel, made from renewable plant material called biomass. UMass Amherst is proud to count among its own George Huber, a leading biofuel researcher who serves as John and Elizabeth Armstrong Professional Development Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

University of North Texas

  • Improving Nuclear Reactors

    A love of computers and computer gaming initially led Jeff Hetherly down a path toward a computer science degree. How­ever, the prospect of using computer modeling as it applies to physical theory won him over, and instead he chose to study physics, earning his bachelor of science from UNT, magna cum laude, in May 2008.

  • Computer Scientists Overhaul 911 System

University of South Carolina

Hofstra University

  • National Center for Suburban Studies

    Hofstra rededicated its newly expanded National Center for Suburban Studies (NCSS) last fall to coincide with the 60th anniversary of nearby Levittown, the nation's first suburb, and the appointment of a new executive director and academic director.

University of Washington

  • Contact Lenses With Circuits

    Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights.  

Millersville University

  • Shaking Things Up at Millersville

    Magnitude 5.2 Earthquake Rattles U.S. Midwest-April 18, 2008. Small Earthquake Hits Near Reading, PA-December 13, 2006. Pennsylvania's biggest earthquake, 5.2 magnitude, occurred on September 25, 1998. What do these earthquakes have in common? All were recorded by Millersville University's seismograph.  

Nova Southeastern University

Northeastern University

  • Pursuing Interdisciplinary and Translational Research

    The creation of new knowledge and new technologies continues to accelerate rapidly. Whether such advances are motivated by a desire to solve societal problems, remain competitive on a global level, provide economic prosperity for citizens, or extend human understanding, universities will increasingly play a critical role in shaping this research and scholarly agenda. With expanding opportunities, however, come increasing challenges.  

Purdue University

  • Purdue's Crown Jewel

    Discovery Park is the crown jewel of Purdue University. It is home to the university's interdisciplinary research programs and a place where scientists and students work to turn today's visions into tomorrow's reality. Centers focus on research in areas ranging from health-care engineering, nanotechnology, life sciences and cyber infrastructure, to climate change, entrepreneurship, cancer diagnosis, homeland security and alternative energy.

The University of Kansas

  • Fighting Cancer: Setting Ambitious Goals

    Eliminating cancer is KU's top priority. At the KU Cancer Center in Kansas City, Kan., a team of more than 160 world-class researchers and clinicians is elevating cancer research, drug development, disease prevention and patient care.

Louisiana State University

  • Researching in the Real World and Virtual Worlds, Too

    Composing music, exploring novel ways of using technology to create music, and leading a campus-wide initiative to develop a strong digital media program are just a part of Stephen David Beck's research interests.  

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)

  • Star Projects in Applied Research

    With a strategic emphasis on applied research, PolyU firmly believes that research is an integral part of academic pursue relevant to the needs of the society. Not only does it enrich academic teaching, it also advances the frontiers of knowledge and technology development, thus contributing to the advancement in competitiveness of business and industry and Hong Kong's strategic shift towards a knowledge-based economy.

The University of Hong Kong

Longwood University

  • Advancing Undergraduate Research

    Longwood students are conducting the kind of research that is usually found only at the graduate school level.  It’s just one of the ways in which our students are gaining real-world “hands-on” experience.  And it’s one of the main reasons why our graduates enjoy a 90 percent placement rate in graduate school or the job market

Stanford University

  • Improving Human Health

    The path from exciting basic laboratory discovery to valuable practical application for improving human health has many barriers. Vice Provost Ann Arvin discusses how Stanford's Initiative on Human Health confronts these barriers.