U. Alabama develops anti-terrorism software
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (U-WIRE) - The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have been prevented if a computer program the University of Alabama is developing had already been implemented, one UA researcher said.
The UA Critical Analysis Reporting Environment Research and Development Lab received nearly $1 million as a grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop an online information system to alert law enforcement officers about suspicious preludes to terrorist acts.
Bill aims to end Texas' top-10 percent rule
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AUSTIN, Texas (U-WIRE) - The Texas top-10 percent rule could be history if state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, has his way.
Wentworth filed a bill Tuesday that would repeal the law that guarantees state university admission to all Texas high school students whose GPA ranks in the top-10 percent of their class. The University of Texas at Austin currently admits approximately 65 percent of its student body under the rule.
Course in video games offered to Iowa students
AMES, Iowa (U-WIRE) - Video game lovers are doing more with their hobby at Iowa State University.
The computer and video game design and development course, is in its fourth semester. It evolved from an independent study into a studio class with nearly 30 students from various majors, classifications and experience levels.
Student tried in court for cache of child porn
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (U-WIRE) - After confiscating about 6,000 lewd videos and images of pre-pubescent females, the state of Maryland charged a university student with possession of child pornography, an occurrence the Office of Information Technology said is rare at the university.
After being postponed in September, yesterday's trial against Benjamin Aurich lasted only a few minutes before the judge granted a 90-day continuance for Aurich to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and for both parties to attempt to reach a plea agreement.
Father of gene therapy charged with felony
LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) - Indictments were passed down Friday in the molestation case against a University of Southern California professor and so-called father of gene therapy William French Anderson, charging him with six felony counts.
Anderson is free on a $600,000 bail after pleading not guilty to one count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and five counts of committing a lewd act on a child.
Princeton bans smoking in undergrad dorms
PRINCETON, N.J. (U-WIRE) - Princeton University Vice President for Campus Life, Janet Dickerson, approved a ban on smoking in undergraduate dormitories Tuesday after months of discussion with student leaders.
The decision to prohibit smoking in dorms came in response to widespread concern about the effects of secondhand smoke and the fire hazard of lit cigarettes, Dickerson said.
All Ivy League schools, including Princeton, have banned smoking in common dormitory spaces. Some also prohibit it in private rooms.
Michael J. Fox visits Parkinson's research labs
MADISON, Wis. (U-WIRE) - Michael J. Fox toured the University of Wisconsin Waisman Center on Tuesday afternoon with Gov. Jim Doyle to view the building's science facilities and to advocate scientific research dedicated Parkinson's disease, the condition with which Fox was diagnosed in 1991.
Tuesday's visit to the university was one of Fox's many public appearances since the creation of the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000.
