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Richard "Rick" Watson, the co-leader of a nonprofit effort to produce free electronic and print textbooks for students in the developing world, visited Â鶹ÊÓƵ on Monday to share his vision and to seek partnerships at the university with which to expand the Global Text Project.

Computing sciences faculty member Joel Hollingsworth will lead two Â鶹ÊÓƵ teams to compete in the regional phase of the world's most prestigious computer programming competition. Fourteen colleges and universities will compete in the regional contest Oct. 25 at Duke University.

An Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty member has been awarded storage space on a selective, federally funded computer server where scientists conduct research that requires vast amounts of electronic file space and computing capability.