The Georgia attorney general’s office is investigating a distinguished duo of University health professors, recruited to U. Minnesota away from Georgia Tech last year, for potential fraud and theft and allegedly collecting payment from both schools.

The University of Chicago Law School has blocked wireless Internet access in most classrooms “in order to ensure the value of the classroom experience,” a press statement released by the school reported earlier this month.

Brent Stockwell, a Columbia biology and chemistry professor, has identified a potentially revolutionary new method to selectively kill cancer cells in humans. Stockwell worked with Columbia postdoctoral researcher Wan Seok Yang.

Last week, student government leaders at several Philadelphia universities, including Penn, Temple and Villanova Universities and Haverford College, jointly authored a letter endorsing Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for president. Despite criticism, they are standing by the endorsement.

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.”