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Amy Poehler to address Harvard grads

April 6, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (USANN4)--Comedian and actress Amy Poehler will speak at Harvard’s “Senior Class Day.”   The star of NBC’s Parks and Recreation will address grads and their families...

College acceptance rates falling

April 5, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (USANN4) --College acceptance rates drop again in 2011.   The Washington Post reports that Harvard received nearly 35,000 applications for the class of 2015.   It accepted a little...

Malcolm X biographer Manning Marable dies

April 4, 2011

NEW YORK (USANN4) -- A funeral service is set for April 12th in New York City for noted black scholar Manning Marable.   The 60-year-old passed away on Friday, just days before the publishing of his...

Cantata recalls Triangle Shirtwaist tragedy

March 31, 2011

Story by Alexis Jacquett; Video by Xavier Green SAN DIEGO --  San Diego State  University  hosted a powerful commemoration concert on March 23 to remember 146 women who lost their lives in the...

UCLA will create center for laboratory safety

March 31, 2011

LOS ANGELES (USANN4) -- UCLA announces plans to open a Center for Laboratory Safety.   The move comes after a fatal fire in the school’s organic-chemistry lab in 2008.   A staff researcher died of...

Feds fine Virginia Tech for slow notification of students in shooting rampage

March 30, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (USANN4)--The federal government has fined Virginia Tech $55,000 in connection with the 2007 shooting rampage on campus.   The U.S. Department of Education says the school violated federal...

Where the Obamas will give commencement addresses

March 29, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (USANN4)--Commencement season is still a ways off.   However, President Obama is already making plans to speak to graduates this spring.   He will deliver the keynote address during...

Shuttle bus accident kills UConn student

March 23, 2011

STORRS, Connecticut -- A student was killed on the University of Connecticut campus after being hit by a shuttle bus.   Police say the student, identified as 20-year-old David Plamondon from Massachusetts,...

Female faculty faring better at M.I.T.

March 22, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (USANN4)-- A new report says that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is doing better in its treatment of female professors.   Twelve years ago, the institute issued a...

Website tracks campuses where guns allowed

March 17, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. (USANN4)--Want to know which colleges allow loaded firearms on campus?   There’s a new web site that will tell you which ones do.   Two anti-gun groups have started a new Web site,...

Notre Dame held liable for cameraman’s death

March 16, 2011

NOTRE DAME, Indiana (USANN4) -- The state of Indiana has fined  the University of Notre Dame $77,500 for six safety violations linked to the death of student Declan Sullivan.   The junior from Illinois...

Ex-Iona official pleads guilty to embezzlement

March 10, 2011

NEW YORK (USANN4)-- A former vice president of a Roman Catholic institution has pled  guilty to embezzling money.   Marie Thornton, who served as a formervice president  of finance at Iona College,...

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