ATLANTA — The PEACH Education Tax Credit Fund is a program for businesses to help better prepare students for the future workforce. Exit: The Georgia Foundation for Public Education (GFPE), in partnership with the Georgia Creative Communities Project, is introducing a tax credit program that allows businesses to proactively support students in K-12 schools with …
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Newswise – University of Washington geologists had been building computerized field experiments long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Juliet Crider, an associate professor of earth and space science at UW, first won a grant from the National Science Foundation to send a former graduate student and a drone to photograph an iconic geologic site in …
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Alexis Fernung was ready to taxi the plane from the runway to the hangar. Following the signalman’s directions and staying in line on the runway, she does her best to move the plane. “I get it,” she said as the plane began to move. A few minutes earlier, Lillian Green was examining a robot arm …
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COLONY – A physics professor has created a way for students to hold the invisible in the palm of their hand, manipulating magnetic fields and electric charges to see how they work. Using augmented reality on a touch screen, they can see a 3D image and move it around with their hands. It’s a new …
Siegrid Pregartner and Laura Borgerding are quick to note that they are PhD students in non-traditional pharmacology; Pregartner is an Army veteran and mother of two, while Borgerding is a former college professor. The two also recently launched a startup, Janus AI, and designed an AI tool that helps in the early detection of Alzheimer’s …
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The Tufts Chapter of the Young Democratic Socialists of America created a petition calling on the university to provide free use of laundry machines in all residence halls. They join groups like the Tufts Community Union Senate to examine how laundry costs act as a barrier to fairness, though their proposed solutions differ. “Tufts claims …
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Published November 30, 2022 Making the classroom engaging can be a challenge, but thanks to Lockwood Memorial Library’s LevelUp computer and gaming site, some teachers are finding ways to put a world of experiences in the hands of their students – without ever having to leave. the campus. Michael Kicey, Humanities Librarian and Assistant Instructor, …
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On September 13, the Franciscan University of Steubenville launched the pilot project of its “unplugged scholarship”, a scholarship that provides financial assistance to students who give up their smartphones during their university career. “Franciscan is leading the way and inviting a generation of young adults to break away from this digital universe,” said Justin Schneir …
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PParents and teachers around the world welcome the return of students to the classroom. But unbeknownst to them, an unexpected insidious academic threat is on the scene: a revolution in artificial intelligence has created powerful new automatic writing tools. These are machines optimized for cheating on school and university papers, a potential siren song for …
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Robots are taking our jobs! This human fear of artificial intelligence has long been a polarizing topic in American pop and tech culture, politics, and even some academic circles, and it’s growing as AI technology becomes more prevalent. AI technology has advanced dramatically since its inception in the 1950s. An Arizona company …
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