Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology won a 2011 contest to create the program, where seven master's degree students started this winter in a computer science master's program.

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He has been an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University in Boston since 1995 and also teaches a partnership tax class in the master's in taxation degree program at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, his LinkedIn page states.

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"I wanted to create a type of video game play that would center around a couple's intimacy, " explained Chowdhury who is currently finishing her master's degree at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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Mr. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor at the time, Joel Klein, expanded its Teaching Fellows program, which enticed teachers to work in poor schools by paying for their master's degree.

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