A new app designed to keep students safe on and around campus includes features like rapid police dialing and location-sharing with friends.

With a $1.7 million grant from the state government, Temple University plans to install gunshot sensors, license plate readers and cameras.

The app enables students, faculty and staff to share their location with police or receive notifications about safety threats on campus.

The list of higher education institutions to move classes online out of concern for the health and safety of their students continues to grow.

Researchers at Texas A&M University developed a new tool they say could provide a new technique for anticipating major flooding events.

Applications for risk management planning and mapping are helping school administrators better coordinate with emergency response agencies.

Hundreds of schools across the commonwealth will share $6 million in funding, which is set to double next year amid concerns of gun violence.

Some officials say it adds little new functionality for law enforcement, while others claim the governor's request was "impossible" from the start.

Oklahoma schools are among the latest to invest in the technology, spending $3 million on a mobile platform to be used by more than 500 districts.

Civil rights watchdogs say the data-collection project to prevent school gun violence is being pushed into students' lives haphazardly.