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Cincinnati.com this morning reports that "perjury, faulty eyewitness identification and prosecutorial misconduct are the leading reasons for wrongful convictions according to the first national registry of exonerations – a database compiled in collaboration by the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, which has identified 873 faulty convictions in the past 23 years that have been  

That was the key message from Admiral James G. Stavridis, commander of the United States European Command and NATO supreme allied commander, Europe, who spoke to the Kellogg community on May 18. Stavridis was attending the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago.  

After a Forbes writer raised Marion Barry's history with drug abuse, did the councilmember respond with a salty barb or a reference to a top-tier business school. We think it's the former. [ more › ]  

Left-handed people are relatively rare because of the balance between cooperation and competition in human evolution, according to a new study of sports data. Representing only 10 percent of the general human population, left-handers have been viewed with suspicion and persecuted across history. The word sinister even derives from left or left-hand.  

Researchers at Northwestern University's Department of Radiation Oncology and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory recently deployed a new non-destructive X-ray microscopy solution from Xradia to image cryogenically preserved cells and advance studies of intra-cellular biology  

Goettsch Partners (GP) has designed the signature building that will be the new home of Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music and provide additional space for the School of Communication on Northwestern's Evanston campus. The building is located just south of the school's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on the southeastern edge of campus.  

EVANSTON, Ill., May 19 (UPI) -- City leaders in Evanston, Ill., opted to stick with classic red rather than paint the town's fire hydrants Wildcat purple in honor of Northwestern University. The council this week rejected a proposal to repaint ...  

“This is a way for us to come full circle in our 39th year now,” said Weinberg sophomore David Harris, co-chair of public relations for DM. “We’re really excited with the impact we think this money is going to have.” Harris said the ...  

The Senate rejected dueling Democratic and Republican plans on Thursday for averting a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students, pushing back efforts to resolve the problem until next month.  

As automakers increase their efforts to design vehicles that are more fuel-efficient, college engineering programs are likewise adapting their curriculums, preparing students to build vehicles increasingly powered by batteries.  

Timothy J. Robblee will conduct a program featuring Russell Peck’s “Cave,” Andrew Rindfleisch’s “The Light Fantastic,” Jonathan Newman’s “Moon by Night” and Kevin Puts’ “Chorus of Light.” Tickets are $6 for the general public and $4 ...  

May 24, 2012- Celebrating Paris in film at Block Museum  

May 24, 2012- Block’s “Art on Paper” exhibition highlights museum’s diverse permanent collection  

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University professor Monica Olvera de la Cruz, a theoretician who has developed models to determine the dynamics of macromolecules, has been elected a member of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS).  

This Wednesday night, I’m participating in a two-person panel discussion on the intersection between religion and secularism (and how they’re opposed) at Northwestern University. The event goes from 7:00-9:00p in Harris Hall 107. It’s sponsored by the Secular Student Alliance and Northwestern University Interfaith Initiative (NUii). Stop by if you’re in the area! And as [...]  

Brad Hamm, dean of the IU School of Journalism, has been named dean of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Hamm has been dean of the School of Journalism since 2005 and is only the fifth dean ...  

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Designers, vice presidents and directors from companies including Motorola, Herman Miller, Humana and McDonald’s will gather to discuss how design can provide the best return on investment Thursday, April 12, at Northwestern University.  

EVANSTON, Ill. --- “The Little Prince,” Rick Cummins and John Scoullar’s play for all ages, will open the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University’s spring 2012 performance season April 13 to 22. It is based on Antoine de ...  

Northwestern faculty and staff with a valid WildCARD ID receive a 15 percent discount off the general public ticket price. For more information, call the Pick-Staiger Concert Office at (847) 491-5441 or visit the Pick-Staiger website at www.pickstaiger.org.  

BlissTreeTeen Depression Can Be Diagnosed With New Blood Test, Northwestern University SaysHuffington PostNorthwestern Medicine scientist Eva Redei has developed the first blood test to diagnose major depression in teens -- a breakthrough that allows for scientific and objective diagnosis over current subjective methods. Physicians have relied upon a ...Breakthrough Test Identifies DepressionIvanhoeBlood Test to Diagnose Major Depression in...  

Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), master Twitter user that he is ... Washington plugged a City Paper analysis of the pop-up arts district at the nexus of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Good Hope Road SE. "We are continuing to develop and renovate ...  

Xradia's two laboratory product families, the UltraXRM-L and VersaXRM™, together offer a multi-length scale solution delivering full volume 3D imaging with resolution down to 50 nm. Energy-tunable, ultra-high resolution 3D X-ray microscopes for ...  

When Harvard alums talk about the Red Book, they’re not talking about Mao Zedong’s pamphlet of axioms, but a compilation of dispatches from graduates sharing accounts of their lives since finishing college.  

The 30,000 QR that came with second place will help the documentarians, all students at Northwestern University in Qatar, to produce multimedia projects on current events in the Arab world for foreign audiences. "We see a lot of international media ...  

All Chicago campuses have class, but a national contest currently says three of them have style to back it up. Jessica Novak, marketing manager for Stylitics, said the rankings are based on colleges with the most students using the "virtual ...  

Volunteer for Reach Out to Asia, participated in several fund raising campaigns whose proceeds were used to support education and development in ... it’s hard to get people to accept the work you’re doing. And people are just not used ...  

Unlike Zenziper, Alison Landon has very few symptoms ... “The biggest thing that people worry about is that they’re going to be in a wheelchair,” Cohen said.   Misinformation and stereotypes like these persist despite advances in research and ...  

"This deliberate and focused effort on high-potential entrepreneurs would help the United States remain competitive, economically stable, and growth-oriented in a world where success is measured not by speed, but by velocity,” Razeghi testified.  

The Simons Foundation plans to announce on Tuesday that the University of California, Berkeley, will be the home of a new center that combines computing theory with fields like biology or economics.  

A study by researchers at John Hopkins University found that as many as 15 percent of students miss at least one school day in 10, and have gone undetected because of the way attendance is measured.  

The police used pepper spray against as many as 30 demonstrators as students angry over a plan by Santa Monica College to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting.  

Georgetown University, a Jesuit institution, is being rebuked by local bishops after inviting Kathleen Sebelius, the health secretary and a supporter of abortion rights, to speak at commencement.  

“Never a City So Real” by Northwestern’s very own Alex Kotlowitz, the longtime writer-in-residence at the University’s Center for the Writing Arts and a senior lecturer at Medill, has been chosen as the One Book One Northwestern ...  

The change at CUNY’s top colleges among incoming freshmen comes a decade after the university ended open enrollment and confirms predictions made by opponents during the battle over admissions.  

Since Gene Powell was elected chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents last year, the board has become ground zero for a clash between competing visions for higher education.  

John Lombardi, the president of the Louisiana State University System, was fired on Friday by the system’s governing board. Dr. Lombardi had clashed with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration.  

For a 17-year-old senior, a dream of college is lost to the reality of a pregnancy and a court-appointed transfer to Carroll Academy, a school for troubled teenagers in Huntingdon, Tenn.  

A 190-page report concluded that the campus police’s actions against Occupy demonstrators last November at the University of California, Davis, “should and could have been prevented.”  

The public college said it was responding to a rising number of complaints about pledge activity at fraternities and sororities, though some students said administrators overreacted.  

President Obama opened a three-college swing on Tuesday, seeking to mobilize young voters to his side once again. But this time he’s an incumbent presiding over an anemic job market.  

Brown University announced on Tuesday that it would increase its voluntary payments to the City of Providence, where officials are trying to shore up finances to avoid bankruptcy.  

With the balance of student debt topping $1 trillion, college presidents are recognizing that they must handle the costs of education through methods other than tuition increases.  

Less than two years after Community College of Qatar opened in partnership with Houston Community College, 11 students became the country’s inaugural community college graduates.  

The fasting protest was the latest display of anger at the 23 California State University campuses, where the system has lost roughly $970 million in state financing since 2008.  

Student teachers at the University of Massachusetts are protesting a new national licensure procedure being developed by the education company Pearson and Stanford University.  

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO-- - The College for Financial Planning, the nation's leading financial education provider, today announced a new program designed for non-degreed financial advisors to pursue the ...  

New report reveals many more exonerations and false convictions than previously found.  

Above all other major life goals like marriage or fulfilling careers, today's college students and recent graduates are looking for financial security, a new survey finds.  

What information exists on how well colleges teach their students has often been hidden from view. But that may be changing — including with the use of standardized tests.  

More than 50 threats about hidden explosive devices have been made at the University of Pittsburgh since mid-February, and campus security has been tightened as a result.  

In a weak job market, many college graduates are taking unpaid internships that fail to deliver on their promises of experience by offering little more than menial work.  

Richard Descoings, the leader of a university in Paris, was found dead in his hotel room in Midtown, and his cellphone and laptop computer were found thrown outside.  

St. George’s University Medical School will offer $11 million in scholarships to New Yorkers in return for the students’ promise to work in New York City hospitals.  

KOTA KINABALU : Kolej Yayasan Sabah (KYS) will be upgraded to university college in less than two years and is now in the midst of enhancing the level of education of both staff and students.  

Faculty members in the California State University system said Wednesday that they had approved plans for a two-day rolling strike at campuses all over the state.  

Students headed to final exams at the University of Pittsburgh this week after a semester in which more than 100 bomb threats disrupted classes and emptied dorms.  

The executive order is designed to protect against deceptive recruiting practices, especially by for-profit institutions seeking veterans’ military benefits.  

The former N.B.A. star Shaquille O’Neal received his doctoral degree in education from Barry University during commencement ceremonies in Miami Shores, Fla.  

As a new interest in online education emerges, Coursera seeks to expand its reach with $16 million in venture capital and offerings through more schools.  

Nearly everyone pursuing a bachelor’s degree is borrowing money, and as prices soar, a college degree often comes with an unprecedented financial burden.  

The chancellor of Santa Monica College in California says that the legality of a program that would charge more for popular courses is still in question.  

Michael Tidwell, dean of the College of Business at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, has been named the dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University.  

A tuition dispute has paralyzed many of Quebec’s French-speaking universities and colleges, and sometimes erupted into violence on Montreal’s streets.  

For many high school graduates directed by colleges into remediation, it is like entering the Bermuda Triangle, never to emerge, an economist writes.  

In the early 1980s, receiving a bachelor of arts degree in just about any subject “opened up lots of jobs,” experts say. Oh, how times have changed.  

The Washington University School of Law will offer a master’s degree in United States law in partnership with 2tor, an education technology company.  

Santa Monica College met with vigorous student objections, and some people at a recent protest were hurt by pepper spray from the campus police.  

The Posse Foundation, which sends students from large urban school districts to elite colleges, is coming to Texas in the 2012-13 academic year.  

As the college searches for a way out of a deepening financial hole, it will also expand graduate and other programs to generate more income.  

Complaints surfaced about the curriculum in a course dealing with terrorism and radicalism at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.  

Harvard is one of the latest colleges where students are holding Sex Weeks, seeking to bridge the gap between classroom and bedroom.  

Some professors worry about opening a college in such a restrictive nation. Administrators say there was plenty of time to object.  

May 2, 2012- Block Cinema hosts May 4 panel discussion and continues to screen films that celebrate Paris  

A New York University class, “Baseball as a Road to God,” aims far higher than clichés about stadiums being “green cathedrals.”  

May 2, 2012- Block’s “Art on Paper” exhibition highlights museum’s diverse permanent collection  

David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards, will take over the education organization in October.  

April 19, 2012- “The Little Prince” staging and NT Live broadcast of “She Stoops to Conquer” among events  

April 5, 2012- Block Cinema to host two Tagore/Ray films from India and screen films that celebrate Paris  

Increasingly, community college students are making the jump to more selective institutions to obtain full degrees.  

HAVRE - The Montana University System's Board of Regents agreed on a plan to rename Montana's two-year colleges Friday.  

As many public universities are facing budget cuts, executive pay has become a volatile issue in some states.  

Texas A University’s program in Doha is experiencing growing enrollment and a burgeoning research effort.  

Fitch Ratings has published a report on College and University Rating Criteria.  

The University of Nebraska reports a major security breach at every campus.