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universities stories: 23 news summaries

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Princeton Student Faked Own Beating

Sent death threats to himself and other campus conservatives

Dec 18, 07 4:07 AM CST
(Newser) - A Princeton student who claimed his views on morality and membership in a conservative organization triggered death threats against him and a beating has confessed that the threats and attack were self-delivered, the Daily Princetonian reports. Four others on campus, including a prominent conservative professor, were also threatened as part... More »

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Princeton University • crime • hoax • universities

Research Notes Make Internet History

New project to archive academic raw materials online

Dec 14, 07 12:07 AM CST
(Newser) - The Center for New History and Media has received a big grant to help store the raw material of academic research as part of its Internet Archive project, Ars Technica reports. Director Dan Cohen wants to help the academic world by making it easy for scholars to make their research... More »

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Internet • research • professor • universities • academics

Internet2
Gets 10X Boost

Alarmingly fast
network speed
gets much quicker - but you can't use it yet

Oct 11, 07 2:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - A parallel network to the commercial Internet has made another giant leap, increasing its already incredibly fast speed tenfold to 100 gigabits per second. That means Internet2—used by researchers, universities and some corporations—will be able to download a movie in a few seconds; the current 10 gig connections... More »

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particle accelerator • Internet2 • network speed • wavelengths • universities

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