Seton Hall in New Jersey is offering a free Nokia Lumia 900 cell phone to all freshmen starting this September. The move is aimed at meeting the school’s mission of providing its students with state of the art technology to improve their experience at the school.
Seton Hall University already offers students the use of the SHUmobile application, which allows users to access useful school information by way of news feeds and maps. Something that new students will find easier with their new phone. [Read more...]
Two professors from Bucknell University are in the process of training rats to sniff out land mines. Biomedical and electrical engineering professor, Joe Tranguillo and Kevin Myers, a psychology professor, are training the rats to wear a small backpack and use their highly sensitive sense of smell to track down land mines.
Six people were shot on Saturday after a fight broke out between two men while at a pool party in the University Heights apartment block. Three of the victims have died. The complex is an off-campus housing facility for Auburn University in Alabama. Two of the individuals who were shot dead during the incident have been named as Ed Christian and Ladarious Phillips, former football players at the university. The third man shot dead is Demario Pitts.
A professor at the University of Wyoming plans to use the school’s supercomputer to draw up a detailed model of what happens underground in the moments leading up to a serious earthquake. Po Chen believes that by researching into the seismic activity that occurs just before an earthquake happens, scientists may be able to design a better warning system that could add minutes on the amount of time people have before the quake actually hits. 
Three female students, aged between 19 and 22, were robbed and one sexually assaulted whilst swimming in a University of Maryland, College Park water fountain. The trio stripped to their underwear before jumping into the fountain. At about midnight on Friday a group of 10 individuals approached the students. One of the group reportedly grabbed one of the student’s buttocks before taking their belongings and running off. 
Officials at the University of Kentucky have announced they plan to cut 140 full-time and part-time jobs at the campus. The cuts have been made necessary because of huge reductions in the school’s funding recently. A further 164 vacant positions are also going to be cut. The lay-off’s will affect approximately one percent of the university’s staff. 
Aretha Franklin stepped up to receive an 
Sho Yano, a 21 year old student from the University of Chicago, is the 
A student engineering team has unveiled their efforts of creating an extremely fuel efficient vehicle. The team are entering into the 2012 SAE International Supermileage Challenge on the 7-8th of June. The aim of the challenge it to construct a vehicle that can huge distances without using much fuel. The current record is 3,169 miles per gallon.
