Some colleges, including North Carolina State University and the University of North Florida, have started offering a student ID that doubles as a prepaid card.

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In 1999, Coleman, a management professor at the University of North Florida, and Lynch, an economics professor at Mercer College, were attracted to the copious amount of available data concerning NCAA basketball teams.

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Coursera has joined with schools including Princeton University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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S. in computer engineering from the University of Central Florida, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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James Elsner of Florida State University has plotted the number of big storms in the North Atlantic since 1900.

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North Carolina State University is in partnership with Florida International University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Virginia to better understand how our environment affects our health via tiny wearable devices.

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Rachael Joyner at Florida Atlantic University, Phillip Lucas and Kendra Desrosiers at Howard University, Tracy Boyer at University of North Carolina, Michelle Chan at Pepperdine University, Chris Welch at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ben Doody at Fairfield and Chris Burcham at Tulane University contributed to this article.

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