A Penn State student’s science project prompted a four-hour shutdown of the area surrounding the Fraser Street parking garage after the police responded to a report of a “suspicious package” early Friday afternoon.

College research is pushing ahead new discoveries to reduce the risk of neurodegenerative diseases, save NASCAR lives and examine the decline of bees. It’s all part of this week’s research roundup.

According to the 2007-08 Financial Plan-in-Year Forecast published by Cornell’s Division of Planning and Budget, the average salary for faculty in endowed colleges “increased 5 percent in 2007-08 while the comparable average for contract college faculty grew 5.3 percent.”

A former OU student was arrested Sunday, two days after the university filed a restraining order against him for making threatening fliers.

Hillary Clinton told a crowd of 1,500 two days before the Pennsylvania primary that she will make affordable education a priority if she is chosen as the Democratic candidate instead of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Richard Granger has resigned as director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science following the arrest of his wife last month for allegedly stealing over $300,000 from a church in California, the Grangers’ prior residence. Granger will continue to direct Dartmouth’s Brain Imaging Laboratory and maintain his position as a professor in the computer science department.