Last update: Sunday 10/12/14 @ 11:48 am
This week's cover = photo from tweet about the International Day of the Girl -- especially #DayOfTheGirlBGC... Other top stories ==> ATT's Hackathon at Howard U ... Carnegie Classifications new home ... and Microsoft CEO Nadella's bad advice to women
Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding ... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 10/11/14 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found here ==> Back issues can be searched for old tweets.
#HBCU CAU Receives A $231,000 Grant From Chevron for Business And Engineering Scholarships http://fb.me/3zaWpse0M
HBCUs as the Most Productive Undergraduate Sources of Black Doctorates in Science & Engineering http://ift.tt/1sm0TCg http://fb.me/1FxVj4VO4
New Facilities Expand Agricultural Research Capabilities at Tennessee State University: http://www.jbhe.com/2014/10/new-facilities-expand-agricultural-research-capabilities-at-tennessee-state-university/ … via @JBHEdotcom
Alabama State University Scientists Receive Patent for Treatment of Respiratory Illness: http://www.jbhe.com/2014/10/alabama-state-university-scientists-receive-patent-for-treatment-of-respiratory-illness/ … via @JBHEdotcom
Top five student-created apps http://ift.tt/1rgw7oS -- DLL Editor's Note -- One of these apps was created by students at Spelman ... black girls coding!!!
Funds Awarded to Historically Black Colleges and Universities for Fossil Energy Research http://ift.tt/1xndUeS ... DLL Editor's Note -- HBCU grantees include Delaware State University, Clark Atlanta University, and Prairie View University
Hampton University receives @NIH grant to study treatment for infectious diseases. http://news.hamptonu.edu/release/Hampton-University-receives-NIH-grant-to-study-treatment-for-infectious-diseases …
Higher Education Grants of Interest to African Americans http://www.jbhe.com/?p=45094 ... DLL Editor's Note -- Grantees include Alabama State University, Fayetteville State University and Morehouse School of Medicine
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European countries will be energizing & empowering students to learn how to code for Europe Code Week. http://goo.gl/oR17nF
... Issues in the broader technical environment that impact teaching, learning, research, hackers, and entrepreneurs ... Half Dozen
Kmart hacked, customers' card numbers exposed @zachminers http://www.computerworld.com/article/2824758/kmart-hacked-customers-card-numbers-exposed.html … DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by TechCrunch
What Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said about gender pay gaps has some people very upset http://tcrn.ch/1w4Begm ... DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by NY Times,VentureBeat, Computerworld, CNet, Bloomberg Tech
Symantec's board votes to split the company in two @NLWeil http://www.computerworld.com/article/2824180/symantecs-board-votes-to-split-the-company-in-two.html … DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by Bloomberg Tech, NY Times
IBM’s Watson supercomputer is on a roll http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/07/the-year-of-watson-continues-ibm-announces-a-slew-of-new-partners-public-cloud-integration-more/ …
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It's official: HP will break itself in two @jniccolai http://www.computerworld.com/article/2691819/hardware/its-official-hp-will-break-itself-in-two.html … DLL Editor's Note -- This story also covered by VentureBeat, CNET, TechCrunch, Bloomberg
Directory ==> HERE
#DayOfTheGirlBGC
... a tiny sample of the dozens of celebratory tweets using this hashtag
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... a tiny sample of the dozens of celebratory tweets using this hashtag
Even singing at the @BlackGirlsCode Robot Expo! #DayOfTheGirlBGC
Three cities (Memphis, Brooklyn, Silicon Valley) three different #STEM events--One Love. Teaching girls to code! #DayoftheGirlBGC
Amazing panel discussion with women of color in STEM fields. Black girls who code rock! #DayOfTheGirlBGC
We are loading the bus in #Oakland on our way to the Computer History Museum for Design, Code, Build! #dayofthegirlBGC #changetheratio
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IBM + Apple, is this the secret sauce that made it happen - IBM Bluemix http://bit.ly/Zj4VPX #iosdev #ibm #mobility
Please support my good friend & finalist @uchechi_writes get her tech start-up @wedocracy featured in @nolanews http://ow.ly/Cwhs6
Review: Appcelerator is a mobile cloud platform in progress | InfoWorld http://bit.ly/1CWuvtj @appcelerator #tialloy
The 3 most useful skills to teach at a hackathon http://wp.me/p1re2-6xRh
E. Tech Calendar ... Half Dozen
The calendar listing all previously posted events is found ==> HERE
Can social capital (a tweet, a mention, a like) change the game 4 #startups w/o venture capital? Join the #yeswecode chat Sun 10/12–8pm
Wow! We are 1 week away from the @SiliconHarlem conference - are u registered? http://siliconharlem.net @NYTM
ATL Marketers & Creatives: Sign up for Goodie Marketing for Under-Served Communities on 10/26 http://bit.ly/YCseUQ
We are better connecting the developing world w/ @DoingDev Nov 7-9th in Austin #urbantechweekend #Devon hackathon
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