Archive for ‘November, 2006’

Rice proposes limits to Iranian students’ university educations

United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice proposed a plan that would prevent Iranian students from studying nuclear physics at international universities, declaring that the world will not stand idly by as enemy nations develop nuclear weapons. “The Iranian regime is watching how the world responds to North Korea’s behavior and now can see that the national community will confront this threat,” Rice told the Heritage Foundation in an Oct.

$2.5M grant lets BU explore Hispanic HIV

The Boston University School of Social Work has received a $2.5 million grant to study and help curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Hispanic community in western Massachusetts by working closely with organizations involved in the community. BU researchers will work with Tapestry Health Services, which provides reproductive healthcare and HIV/AIDS prevention and counseling, to measure the effectiveness of HIV-prevention services and attempt to reduce needle-sharing.

‘Worst’ server failure in years hits campus

Boston University’s system of network servers failed yesterday morning, leaving thousands of students, faculty and administration without access to email and any information hosted on the bu.edu URL. The university postponed graduate student registration, which was scheduled to begin today, until Friday at 7 a.