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RockSat-X: NASA rocket to carry university student experiments (Video)
Higher-education students will put their academic skills to the test when atmospheric and technology experiments they developed take off on a NASA suborbital sounding rocket. The launch will take...
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UVA turns down Barack Obama's offer to speak on campus
The University of Virginia has turned down President Barack Obama’s request to speak on campus next week. UVA cited security costs and the potential disruption to their first week of classes for their...
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Kohl’s awards ten $10,000 youth scholarships for outstanding community service
Kohl’s Department Stores just announced the 10 national winners of their Kohl’s Cares Scholarship Program. These exceptional youth, ranging in age from 6 to 18, are the recipients of a total of...
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Get your NASA space shuttle heat shield tiles, space food and artifacts here
NASA is expanding its offer to museums and schools of space shuttle heat shield tiles and food packaged for spaceflight. Beginning today, museums across the United States are eligible to receive these...
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2012 college grads see slight salary increases
2012 bachelor’s degree graduates are making a few dollars more than their class of 2011 counterparts.The recent stats came to us from a new report by NACE, the National Association of Colleges and...
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NASA accepting applications for aeronautics scholarships until Jan. 14
Looking for a cool scholarship? Well, NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2013-2014 academic year....
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Starting salaries for students with master’s degrees making great grades
Master’s degree graduates in many fields are realizing significantly higher starting salaries than their counterparts who hold just bachelor’s degrees.According to a new report by the National...
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Employers looking for soft skills on college grads’ resumes
As many experts recommend that college grads construct a one-page resume, every word must count. Employers devote only seconds scanning their glut of resumes when deciding if yours is going into the...
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NASA rovers being designed by community college scholars
Forty community college students from across the United States have been selected to travel to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to participate in the 2012 National Community...
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Keeping your PC running smoothly: Organizing your hard-drive
Whether you’re taking an on-line college course, telecommuting, or only using your computer to check your e-mail or download tunes, there are certain routine practices you should follow to keep your...
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Keeping your PC running smoothly: Anti-virus software (Video)
Now that you've taken the time to organize the files and folders on your hard-drive, clear your hard-drive of accumulated cookies and temporary internet files, and uninstall unnecessary software and...
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Keeping your PC running smoothly: Backing up your hard-drive (Video)
Your PC and the data on your hard-drive may be safe and secure now; but take a moment to think of all the potential disasters that can strike at any time: like operator error, theft, fire, flood, or...
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Keeping your PC running smoothly: Speeding up your boot process using 'msconfig'
Does your PC take an extraordinarily long time to reboot? There can be several reasons why – one being all the programs that you run on startup that you really don’t need. When your PC reboots,...
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Keeping your PC running smoothly: Speed up your PC by defragging your hard-drive
You would think that when a file gets saved to your hard-drive, it gets saved all in one piece and that all files are saved contiguously – one after the other in a neat and organized fashion. Instead,...
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Keeping your PC running smoothly: Repair hard-drive errors using 'chkdsk'
You wouldn't think so – but all of the hard-drives in all of our PCs arrive in our homes and offices with hard-drive errors already built in from the manufacturer. The manufacturers don&rsquo...
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Keeping your PC running smoothly: Surge protection (Video)
All computers need to be properly protected with an adequate surge protector. That’s also good advice for any of your electronic devices, like TVs, stereos, microwaves, gaming systems, DVD players,...
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Ergonomic computer workstations for your well-being (Video)
For better or worse, and for whatever reason, we all spend a lot of time in front of the computer. Computer users often complain of lower back pain, muscle fatigue, and aching fingers and joints. How...
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Biometrics and fingerprint scanning (Video)
We gain access to secured places and things a number of ways: what we have (keys or magnetic stripe access cards,) what we know (PINs and passwords,) and, what we are (biometrics.)Biometrics is the...
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Annual college costs climb to $17,860
The annual price tag for a college education rose this year by approximately 5%. This fall, in-state-tuition expenses for four-year public universities grew by approximately $400, bringing the average...
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Communication skills and ability to work in teams essential for landing a job
What sets two equally qualified job candidates apart can be as simple as who has the better communication skills. An annual survey of the job market for new college graduates shows that, year after...
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