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The University of Illinois College of Medicine will reduce its tuition rates for all students, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year. The decision was approved today by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

Channels: Back to School, Education, Rural Issues,

Keywords: Higher Education, Tuition, Tuition Cut, Medical School

The University of Texas at El Paso’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was awarded $1 million from the National Science Foundation to help low-income, academically talented undergraduate students in engineering successfully advance to graduate studies.

Channels: Back to School, Education, Engineering, Mathematics, Poverty, STEM Education, Grant Funded News,

Keywords: UTEP, Engineering Education, Graduate Studies, Stem Education, Patricia Nava, Student Success

Rush University College of Nursing rose to the No. 1 spot among 183 schools eligible for the graduate nursing programs category in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best Online Programs list released today. Distance learning plays a key role in helping to solve the U.S.’s nursing shortage as advanced practice nurses, functioning in both inpatient and outpatient settings, can increase accessibility to high quality and cost-effective care. This is particularly true for underserved rural and urban populations.

Channels: Back to School, Education, Healthcare, In the Workplace, Nursing,

Keywords: Nursing, nursing accreditation, Nursing Education, Nursing Shortage, Online Learning

UNC Charlotte has opened the Carolinas' first School of Data Science. The interdisciplinary school allows UNC Charlotte to expand on its programs in the field and open up the growing and diverse field of data science to students with varied career interests.

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Keywords: data science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Health Analytics

Harrisburg University just opened a User Experience Center of its own, dubbed the HU-UXC for short, where students will develop UX testing, product development, project management, and marketing skills on real-world projects.

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Through support from the U.S. Department of Education, Wayne State University announced it is launching the Metro Detroit Teaching Residency for Urban Excellence (TRUE) Project, an innovative multi-sector partnership that aims to positively impact student learning, address the critical shortage of STEM teachers, and support the region’s workforce development. The $2.5 million project will target recent graduates and mid-career professionals with STEM expertise in the metro Detroit region, especially those in the automotive and technology industries who may be impacted by recent and planned plant closures.

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Keywords: Wayne State University, Stem Education, STEM Teachers, STEM Training, STEM Educators

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Keywords: Vaccination

To complement the wide range of information on the potential dangers of vaping, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has developed a new learning module for high school classrooms that encourages students to directly test the effects of e-cigarette vapor on living cells.

Channels: Back to School, Children's Health, Education, Healthcare, Public Health, Smoking,

Keywords: e-cigarettes, vaping, Health, Education, vaping epidemic , Teens

The University of Utah has selected Rodney Chatman as the new chief of police of the Department of Public Safety. Chatman, currently executive director of public safety and chief of police at the University of Dayton in Ohio, will assume his role on Feb. 17, 2020. He will report to Marlon C. Lynch, the U’s newly hired chief safety officer.

Channels: Back to School, Crime and Forensic Science, In the Workplace,

Keywords: University Of Utah, Rodney Chatman, Department of Public Safety, Campus Safety, University of Dayton

UNC School of Medicine researchers conducted a systematic online review and found 21 vaping-related companies, including, websites, that promoted 40 scholarships to high school and college students in 2018 across the United States.

Channels: Addiction, Back to School, Children's Health, Smoking, All Journal News,

Keywords: Electronic Cigarettes, e-cigarette, vaping, Research, Family Medicine