With the first student case of H1N1 confirmed on campus last week, professor of nursing Dr. Chris Jackson offers advice on how to stay healthy. The H1N1 case was originally diagnosed as Influenza A, but, after being sent for further research, tested positive for the H1N1 virus. The student overcame […]
Toward the end of the 2009 spring semester, news spread throughout campus that two new majors would be available for students: nursing and engineering. So far, these plans are only partially underway: While students can easily sign up for and take nursing classes, there are no engineering classes available on […]
Irate students have been complaining about how security is not much of a help these days. There has been talk that security assistance is unavailable when required. When sophomore Robert Willingham heard that campus security will no longer be offering dorm-to-dorm transportation, he reacted like most of the students on […]
After more than four weeks of troubleshooting, administrative computing is baffled by the ongoing e-mail server issues. The same goes for Communigate software and Hewlett-Packard hardware technicians. “We’ve run (the server) for four years without incident,” Mike Sanker of Academic Computing said. “This is the first major repair problem we’ve […]
AP Images Eastern students and faculty now have access to 5 million copyright-free images on the AP Images database. The images on this database will not have distracting watermarks and can be enlarged without looking grainy. Specific searches by color, subject and other categories are possible, and the images can […]
Over one million people in the US have had H1N1 already in 2009. Is H1N1 more dangerous than the usual flu virus? H1N1 is not more harmful than the typical flu virus. The number of hospitalizations and deaths caused by H1N1 are actually lower than the number caused by the […]
Business students with Dr. Jack Bower on their original schedules were surprised on the first day of classes to learn that the assistant professor of accounting was lying in a coma at the hospital. Bower, who started convulsing during a doctor’s visit on Aug. 24, was in the coma for […]
Accounting professor Rick Jonsen believes that it is “God’s timing” that brought him to Eastern from the huge multinational company Johnson & Johnson, where he worked from 1997 until 2009. Recently, Jonsen and his wife transferred from California to New Jersey for his post as the Director of Talent Acquisition […]