Columbus State boosts student success, Honda robotics show, supercomputing helping ecologists and more

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 4:45pm (updated Monday, May 9, 2016 - 1:39pm)

Columbus State boosts students' chances of success

Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 13, 2015

Fueled by a three-year, $60,000 grant from the Public Children Services Association of Ohio, Scholar Network identifies students who have a history of foster care and offers special services to help them stay in school.

 

ASIMO heads Honda robotics shows for Ohio STEM students

3 BL Media, Oct. 2, 2015

Honda’s commitment to encouraging the growth of STEM education among young students is now bringing those concepts off the page and into the real world ­– courtesy of Honda Robotics…

 

Universities look to help students reduce costs

The Blade, Oct. 12, 2015

Ohio’s public universities and colleges have until Thursday to submit to the state’s Department of Higher Education plans to reduce by 5 percent the cost of attendance for in-state students…

 

Supercomputing helps ecologists overturn popular theory

HPC Wire, Oct. 13, 2015

With an estimated 350,000 plant species on earth, one of the greatest challenges facing ecologists is quantifying plant diversity and understanding its relationship to plant survival…

 

Wal-Mart rolling out online ordering in Dallas-Fort Worth

Star-Telegram, Oct. 14, 2015

Attention Wal-Mart shoppers: It soon will be possible in North Texas to buy groceries and other household items without getting out of your car…