A phone vibrates. Two text messages emanate from a puny screen.
- A friend has sent plans about the upcoming weekend.
- A professor has sent a reminder about an assignment due Monday.
With Blackboard Inc.’s acquisition of mobile messaging group NTI, this scenario could become a reality.

It’s the end of a long, exhausting day. You quickly finish that paper and pass out. The next morning, you check your cell and realize that, in your hasty retreat into unconsciousness, you forgot to plug in your phone.
Battery life is one of the only limitations of widespread electronic use.

Video game players have Stanford researchers to thank for the latest innovation in 3-D design.

At first glance, the remote sensor technology embedded in UC Berkeley graduate student Keng-hao Chang’s weight-lifting gloves look more like a throwback to the virtual reality handsets of the 1990s than the latest in health care technology.

Although the stereotypical Tuck Business School researcher at Dartmouth College may be focused on development in emerging economies or business administration, Tuck professor Eric Johnson and his team of students have turned their attention to a much lighter issue: what toys gift-givers should buy for the holidays.

Whether it’s used for making dinner plans or asking someone out, BlitzMail is one of the defining features of the Dartmouth College experience.