University Beat

While Governor Rick Scott vetoed a three percent tuition increase for the state's public universities, the University of South Florida is the latest school getting around that by using inflation to raise tuition for the coming school year.

Updated story posted at Midnight June 13:

Did Dr. Stephen Klasko pull his name from consideration for the position as chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center due to questions about discrepancies on his resume?
That seems to be the theory proposed by newspapers in both Tampa and Omaha.
 

And the issues aren't related to his education or his work experience - they appear to be over when exactly he ran a number of marathons.

Even though Matthew Pasek is an assistant professor of geology at the University of South Florida, he thinks he's figured out an interesting equation: 

Phosphorus from a meteorite that crashed to Earth 3.5 billion years ago + water = the earliest life on the planet.

The findings were recently published in the June edition of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

Tuition at the University of South Florida isn't going to increase in the coming school year, thanks to a veto from Gov. Scott. However, some students will end up paying a little bit more, as the Board of Trustees voted Thursday to raise fees by 10 percent for nonresident undergraduate students.