Dr. Nancy Rabalais, the executive director and professor of Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Her research interests include biological oceanography, the distribution and dynamics of hypoxia water groups and the relationship between animals and sediment.

Loud popping sounds and screams shatter the silence of a warm fall day, confusion turns to panic and lives will forever be changed – there is an armed assailant loose on campus.

This might sound like a bad dream or a snippet from a newscast, but is increasingly becoming reality, as mass casualty shootings have recently become prevalent in the collegiate landscape.

Since last year’s shootings on Virginia Tech’s campus in Blacksburg, Va., university administrators across the country have scrambled to piece together preventative and proactive programs designed to circumvent such tragedies.

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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sept. 23 again presents a tie between candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. Both attract 48 percent of the votes, and both are viewed favorably by 54 percent.

The pouring rain didn’t stop 302 students from attending the Fall 2008 Career Expo Aug. 22. Brandishing their umbrellas and straightening their ties, students met more than 70 companies to establish networking connections and land internships, part-time and full-time positions in Jacksonville.

It all began with CareerWings, the Web site designed to help students find recruiting employers.

There are between 2,000 and 3,000 employers registered on the site for the purpose of bringing jobs solely to UNF students, said Jocelynn Heck, events marketing coordinator for Career Services.