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News Release
May 15, 2007
Boise State Among 42 Institutions Nationwide Selected as HP
Technology Grant Recipient
$68,000 grant includes HP wireless equipment and faculty stipend to improve
student achievement
Boise State University was selected as one of 42 colleges and universities
in the United States and Puerto Rico to receive a 2007 HP Technology for
Teaching grant, which is designed to transform teaching and improve learning
in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.
During the 2007-2008 academic year, HP Technology for Teaching grant
projects will impact more than 6,000 higher education students. Boise
State’s College of Engineering will receive an award package of HP products
and a faculty stipend valued at more than $68,000.
Each of the HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients will use HP wireless
Tablet PCs to enhance learning in engineering, math, science or computer
science. Boise State’s Department of Civil Engineering will use the PCs as
part of hands-on learning modules to engage students in computer modeling.
The modeling could be used to organize data for air quality forecasts, to
determine predator-prey relationships, assess ground water contaminants, and
for many other environmental issues.
“HP’s generous support will enhance our efforts to provide students with
sophisticated tools and the opportunity to choose the direction and pace of
their learning,” said Sondra Miller, a civil engineering professor at Boise
State and the grant’s principal investigator. “Environmental modeling has
emerged as an essential and widespread tool. This project’s innovative
blending of HP Tablet PCs with modeling software will help familiarize,
recruit and engage students in addressing environmental concerns.”
In 2007, HP is awarding 172 K-12 public schools and two- and four-year
colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico more than $7
million in mobile technology, cash and professional development as part of
its 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant program. Since 2004, HP has
contributed a total of $36 million in HP Technology for Teaching grants to
more than 650 schools worldwide. During the past 20 years, HP has
contributed more than $1 billion in cash and equipment to schools,
universities, community organizations and other nonprofit organizations
around the world.
“HP empowers students and teachers to succeed through innovative uses of
technology and training,” said Sidney Espinosa, director, Philanthropy
Program, HP. “We invest in schools to increase educational attainment and
contribute to the development of a skilled, diverse workforce in the
future.”
More information about the 2007 HP Technology for Teaching program and grant
recipients is available at
www.hp.com/go/hpteach.
More information about Boise State’s College of Engineering is at
http://coen.boisestate.edu.
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Contact: Sondra Miller, Department of Civil Engineering, (208)
426-2894,
sondramiller1@boisestate.edu
Media contact: Janelle Brown, Communications, (208) 426-1790,
jbrown2@boisestate.edu
May is “Return to Learn” month at Boise State University. “Return to
Learn” is a concentrated effort to provide information on the best options
for returning to school to those who are considering taking classes from the
university. For more information, call (208) 562‑3127 or click
http://returntolearn.boisestate
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Last reviewed on
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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