A new study that was conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan has concluded that injuries to the head and brain actually speed up the aging process of the brain. The researchers from the School of Kinesiology found evidence of unnatural aging after the brain had suffered injury, including concussion and head impacts.
The team discovered that injury to the brain caused a loss of brain communication and brain functions deteriorated much faster compared to a brain that hadn’t suffered an injury. [Read more...]
A Louisiana Tech University alum has offered an extra $1,000, on top of the original $1,000 reward, for the safe return of the school’s missing mascot. The four year old English bulldog, Tech XX, went missing a couple of days ago. A worker at the Sexton Animal Health Center reported the bulldog missing after letting him out for a toilet break on Sunday evening. The worker said the dog was only out for about five minutes when he disappeared. It is not know whether Tech XX was dog-napped. 
29 year old Crystal Little, an employee of the University of Kentucky, was arrested on Saturday morning in connection with four bank robberies that have taken place since 2010. Little worked as an administration associate at the school’s Office of Research Integrity. Police were investigating a bank robbery that took place on Saturday morning at around 10am, in which a woman was reported to have walked into the PNC branch on Tates Creek Central Drive, dressed in a pink toboggan and a surgical mask and demanded money. 
Dr. Paul Muizelaar, the top neurosurgeon at the University of California – Davis, has stepped down from his position, which he has held since being hired in 1997, pending an investigation into his actions regarding treatment he administered to three terminally ill patients. Together with underling Dr. Rudolph Schrot, Muizelaar used a bacteria on the cancer patients that had the potential to prolong their lives. However, the bacteria used is only authorized to be tested on rats.
The American Bar Association has fined the University of Illinois Law School $250,000 for knowingly publishing inaccurate admissions data in an attempt to improve the school’s reputation. The university will also be made to hire someone to oversee the application process for the next couple of years. A spokesperson for the Bar Association said this is the first time they have had to action and fine a school for publishing false data. 
A collaboration of researchers from the University of California, the University of Washington and the University of Munich have discovered a chemical that has the ability to restore sight in mice. The results are only temporary at the moment, but the researchers hope that they can develop a more stable compound that could help patients with degenerative blindness to regain their sight.
Officials at the University of Iowa first announced their plans for a new dormitory building back in April 2011, after a constant increase in student applications forced the school find alternative housing for students outside of the campus grounds. The original dormitory would have contained 450 beds and cost about $42 million. However, officials at the university have drawn up new plans that will accommodate 500 students. The completion date has also been put back from 2014 to 2015.
The University of Wyoming has been given a $20 million grant to study water above and below the surface of the earth and how it responds to certain changes. The grant is the largest single award given to the school. In 2009 the University of Wyoming received a $16.9 million grant for biomedical research.
A Ph.D. student in his third year at Boston University has been found dead whilst working on an archaeological dig in Turkey. It is believed that 26 year-old Chad DiGregorio was hiking around the area of Manisa, looking for artifacts on his day off, when he fell from a ridge. Manisa is located in the West of what it now know as Turkey and is known to have very rough terrain, especially in the area the archaeological team were studying. A search party was issued when DiGregorio failed to show up to a group dinner on Wednesday.
The University of Louisville’s Law School is now due to suffer a financial loss of about $2.4 million after an error was made and students were allocated a lot more in scholarship money that they should have been. The error means that some students, who were not even supposed to get scholarship funding, will now receive it. 
