Campus shuttles at Alabama A&M University will soon be powered by recycled cooking oil, thanks to a partnership between the university, Toyota and Willbrook Solutions. A&M’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences will reproduce more than 100 gallons of cooking oil from the Hunstville Toyota plant to fuel campus buses and other diesel-powered vehicles. [...]
North Carolina A&T State University yesterday hosted the unveiling of a new Boeing jet on campus, with the aerospace and defense juggernaut hoping to attract area students to the new NextGen Flight Tanker’s technology and future careers in the industry. From DigTriad.com: Boeing wants to pitch the aircraft to the US Air Force, but that [...]
iPhone users seeking up-to-date information on Southern University won’t have to look further than their phone holster, thanks to the university’s recent launch of the “Jag App.” The free application is available for all schools in the Southern System, and will provide news, sports scores, and updates on student services. From the Advocate: Southern Student [...]
Several professors and a staff member at Florida A&M University have received patents on inventions that break new ground in medical treatment to new ways of assembling flags. Professors John Cooperwood and Seth Y. Ablordeppey has patented a new medical treatments for breat cancer and schizophrenia, respectively, Eliot Treadwell and Ely Leon have developed a system to [...]
Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University and Tennessee State University each are advisory institutions in a new effort to level the playing field for minority-owned information technology firms. The Minority Information Technology Consortium affords resources, support and development for smaller IT firms seeking a foothold in procuring federal service contracts. From Defense Procurement News: [...]
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is the latest HBCU to partner with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to bolster minority interest and participation in aviation, as the university will receive state-of-the-art air traffic control simulators for its Engineering and Aviation Sciences program. From the release: NexSim(TM) Radar and Tower air traffic control simulation training systems [...]
Two current Bowie State University graduate and undergraduate students are the latest recipients of NASA Mission Control certifications from the Bowie Satellite Operations and Control Center (BSOCC). Kevin Gross and Shawn Mathews’ certifications are among the more than 100 awarded by the center since in the last 13 years for service as Command Control, Mission [...]
Bowie State University today announced the future release date of a media and technology anthology from professors Dr. Cosmas Nwokeafor and Dr. Kehbuma Langmia. Media and Technology in Emerging African Democracies, set to release on August 28, 2010, draws from multiple essays and works on communication technology and its impacts on the African Diaspora. From [...]
Dr. Mikhail Noginov, a professor in the Norfolk State University Department of Physics, is among a group of researchers that has developed a material that can achieve minute levels of light reflectivity – a perfect black material that can be undetectable by radar. From NewScientist: In collaboration with Narimanov, Mikhail Noginov and colleagues at Norfolk [...]
Coppin State University today announced an initiative to have the majority of its campus facilities utilizing solar energy by spring 2011. Funded by a $500,000 grant from the Maryland Energy Administration’s Sunburst Program, Coppin’s library, administrative building, and physical education complex are among the facilities that will have photolotaic systems to reduce the university’s total [...]
