var news = [
	
	{	date: "4/7/10", 
		anchor: 'news_updates',
		title: "Get News Updates", 
		content: "<p>Sign up to receive Turnitin news and announcements using the form to the right.</p>"
	},
	{	date: "5/21/10", 
		anchor: 'Turnitin2',
		title: "Turnitin2 Coming September 4, 2010", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- August 5, 2010 -- iParadigms announced that Turnitin2 is launching on September 4, 2010. Turnitin2 is the next-generation version of the company's award winning, web-based plagiarism prevention, digital markup and peer review services for educators and students. This new version makes it easier than ever for middle school, high school and college instructors to check students' written work for unoriginal material, deliver substantive comments and conduct peer reviews using a single view of students' fully formatted papers.</p><p> \"Turnitin2 is a major step forward in user-centered design,\" said Chris Caren, the company's president and CEO. \"Turnitin2 brings together major innovations with a wide range of 'most requested' improvements and offers educators and their students a unique, new perspective on written work.\" <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_080510_Turnitin2_Announcement.pdf\">Read the Release</a> and to <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin2_Flyer.pdf\">Learn more</a>...</p>"
	},
	{	date: "8/12/10", 
		anchor: 'Partnership',
		title: "Instructure and Turnitin Announce Integration Partnership", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- August 12, 2010 -- iParadigms, the creator of Turnitin, and <a href=\"http://www.instructure.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Instructure</a>, the creator of Canvas, announced an integration of Turnitin OriginalityCheck with Canvas, a next-generation, web-based learning management system.</p><p>Instructure's Canvas is a new web-based learning management system (LMS) that takes usability to a whole new level by combining educators' \"most wanted\" features into one simple-to-use and implement solution. Canvas saves instructors time, giving them more time for curriculum development and working with students.</p><p>\"Turnitin is the world's leading plagiarism prevention tool and we've had numerous requests from institutions that want to use Turnitin and Canvas together.\" said Cory Reid, Instructure's President. \"We are focused on providing the most advanced technology to our users, so we're delighted to provide this option for our clients\". <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_081210_Instructure_and_Turnitin.pdf\">Read the release</a>…</p>"
	}, 
	{	date: "7/5/10", 
		anchor: 'NYTimes',
		title: "NY Times Education article \"To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery\"", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- July 5, 2010 -- As recently reported in the New York Times article <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/education/06cheat.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1278453675-7ZgyKd2w+enFiStBdjOw6Q\">\"To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery\"</a>, many colleges and universities employ a variety of techniques and technologies to help prevent and detect cheating. As the article says,'The best-known service, Turnitin.com, is engaged in an endless cat-and-mouse game with technologically savvy students who try to outsmart it. \"The Turnitin algorithms are updated on an on-going basis,\" the company warned last month in a blog post titled <a href=\"http://blog.turnitin.com/\">\"Can Students 'Trick' Turnitin?\"</a> <p>See the Turnitin blog, <a href=\"http://blog.turnitin.com/\">'Words & Ideas'</a> for more updates about our tools and techniques.</a></p>"
	},
	
	{	date: "5/7/10", 
		anchor: 'Penn State',
		title: "Penn State MBA Applications Now Screened Using 'Turnitin for Admissions'", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- June 21, 2010 -- iParadigms, announced that its Turnitin for Admissions service has been selected by the Penn State Smeal College of Business. Now, applicants to Penn State's Master of Business Administration (MBA) program will have their admissions essays verified by Turnitin for Admissions. <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_062110_Penn_State_MBA_Program_Selects_Tii_for_Admissions.pdf\">Read more</a>... <p>See coverage in Bloomberg Businessweek's <i>Getting In</i> blog posting by Louis Lavelle on June 21, 2010, <a href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/blogs/mba_admissions/archives/2010/06/penn_state_checking_mba_application_essays_for_plagiarism.html\">\"Penn State Checking MBA Application Essays for Plagiarism\"</a> <p>See coverage in USA Today posted by Scott Jaschik (of Inside Higher Ed) on June 23, 2010, <a href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-06-23-IHE-plagiarism-software-Turnitin23_ST_N.htm\"> \"Colleges turn to software to detect applicants' plagiarism\"</p>" 	
	},
	
	{	date: "7/5/10", 
		anchor: 'iThenticate',
		title: "Scientific publishers embrace iThenticate technology", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- July 5, 2010 -- <a href=\"http://www.nature.com\">NATURE</a> released an online article entitled <a href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100705/full/466167a.html\">\"Journals step up plagiarism policing; Cut-and-paste culture tackled by CrossCheck software\"</a> by Declan Butler. <p>Major science publishers such as Elsevier and Springer are tackling the issue of potential plagiarism in their publications using CrossCheck software (a version of iThenticate available to CrossRef consortium members). Publishers' tests of the technology have confirmed surprising levels of plagiarism in manuscripts submitted for publication; \"one journal reported rejecting 23% of accepted submissions after checking for plagiarism.\" <a href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100705/full/466167a.html\">Read the whole article</a>...</p>"	
	},


	{	date: "5/7/10", 
		anchor: 'Ontario',
		title: "Turnitin Adopted by Ontario Public Schools", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- June 2, 2010 -- The complete Turnitin solution has been adopted by the Ministry of Education of Ontario, Canada, for use in all of its publicly-funded and First Nations secondary schools. Starting September 1, 2010, hundreds of thousands of students and tens of thousands of teachers throughout the province will have access to Turnitin's web-based tools, including OriginalityCheck&trade; Plagiarism Prevention, PeerMark&reg; Peer Reviewing and GradeMark&reg; Digital Markup and Grading. <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_060210_Ontario_Adoption.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"	
	},
	{	date: "5/7/10", 
		anchor: 'Language_Weaver',
		title: "Language Weaver Partnership Will Enable Identification of Translated Plagiarism", 
		content: "<p>iParadigms Licenses Language Weaver's Automated Translation Technology, Extends Capabilities to Identify Potential Plagiarism In Translated Documents.</p><p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- May 7, 2010 -- iParadigms announced that it has licensed Language Weaver's automated translation technology, enabling Turnitin to identify plagiarized content that has been translated from English into other languages. This capability will be incorporated into Turnitin by the end of 2010.</p><p>\"Translated plagiarism is increasingly common at educational institutions around the world,\" said Chris Caren, iParadigms president and CEO. \"It consists of students taking existing source material in one language, translating it into the language used at their institution and misrepresenting it as their own work. A number of our international customers report that this kind of plagiarism is on the rise and have requested the ability to detect it. With Language Weaver's unmatched ability to perform accurate on-the-fly translation, we can now offer a powerful solution to this problem.\" <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_050710_Language_Weaver_Partnership.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"	
	},
	{	date: "4/28/10", 
		anchor: 'Singapore',
		title: "Turnitin Now Used by 100% of Singaporean Universities", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- April 28, 2010 -- Turnitin has been adopted by all four universities in Singapore. Turnitin is used across the universities' curricula and is available to tens of thousands of educators and students at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and SIM University (UniSIM). <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_042810_All_Singapore_Universities.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
	{	date: "4/16/10", 
		anchor: 'CODiE',
		title: "Turnitin Selected as a Finalist for 2010 CODiE Awards", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- April 16, 2010 -- iParadigms, creator of Turnitin and the leader in plagiarism prevention, announced that Turnitin Plagiarism Prevention and Originality Checking has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious CODiE Awards given by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). Turnitin is a finalist in the Best Education Reference or Search Service category. <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_041610_SIIA_CODiE_Award_Finalist.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
	{	date: "4/18/10", 
		anchor: 'NY_Times',
		title: "NY Times Education Life Covers Turnitin for Admissions: \"Exactly How Personal Is That Personal Statement?\"", 
		content: "<p><i>\"Talk about chutzpah. The admissions director for Penn State's M.B.A. program, Carrie Marcinkevage, recalls that the school once received a student essay with three of four paragraphs taken directly from an article online. 'It was, ironically, in our 'Principled Leadership' admissions essay,' she says. Turnitin, a company that exposes cut-and-paste malfeasance in term papers, is introducing a system to detect plagiarism on applications, and Penn State's M.B.A. program is the first to sign up.\"</i></p><p> Read the <a href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18turnitin-t.html?ref=edlife\">complete article</a>. More information is available... <a href=\"http://www.turnitinadmissions.com\">http://www.turnitinadmissions.com</a></p>"
	},
	{	date: "4/14/10", 
		anchor: 'TaskStream',
		title: "TaskStream and Turnitin Announce Integration Partnership", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- April 14, 2010 -- TaskStream <a href=\"www.taskstream.com\">(www.taskstream.com)</a>, the leading provider of web-based software and supporting services for electronic portfolios and outcomes assessment, and Turnitin announced a seamless integration to help educators streamline the process for assessing higher order student learning outcomes via written assignments. <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_041410_TaskStream_and_Turnitin.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
	{	date: "3/29/10", 
		anchor: 'CFO',
		title: "iParadigms Appoints New CFO, George Mazzotta", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- March 29, 2010 -- Turnitin announced the appointment of a new CFO, George Mazzotta, to lead the company's finance team. Former CFO Melissa Lipscomb will continue with iParadigms as VP of Business Affairs. Mazzotta has held executive positions in finance and operations with leading companies in the interactive media and retail industries. He was previously CFO at CNET Networks and COO of The Gap, Inc.'s International Division. <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_032910_New_CFO_G_Mazzotta.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
		{	date: "4/14/10", 
		anchor: 'LATAM',
		title: "Systems Link International to Distribute Turnitin WriteCycle in Latin America", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- March 24, 2010 -- Systems Link International is our new partner for working with educational institutions in Latin America. Systems Link International is a leading supplier of educational tools for research and development to Latin American institutions. <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_032410_Systems_Link_LATAM_Partnership.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
		{	date: "1/13/10", 
		anchor: 'yield_benefits',
		title: "Studies Show 'Turnitin' and 'WriteCycle' Solutions Yield Big Benefits", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- January 13, 2010 -- iParadigms, the worldwide leader in plagiarism prevention and writing management solutions, reported today that a number of long-term studies by independent researchers and by iParadigms found that the company!s tools can significantly reduce student plagiarism, improve written work, and enhance instructor productivity in high school and college environments. <a href=\"/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_011310_Research_Results.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
	{	date: "12/1/09", 
		anchor: 'tii-admissions',
		title: "Announcing Turnitin for Admissions &trade; Admissions officers can rapidly verify originality of application materials", 
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- December 1, 2009 -- iParadigms today announced Turnitin for Admissions, a web-based tool that enables admissions officers to rapidly detect plagiarism and assess the originality of student application materials to college and university programs. <a href=\"http://turnitin.com/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_120109_Tii_for_Admissions_Announcement.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
	{	date: "12/1/09", 
		anchor: 'milwaukee',
		title: "Turnitin WriteCycle Adopted By Milwaukee Public Schools Multi-year deal is part of Milwaukee's \"writing-intensive district\" initiative",
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- December 1, 2009 -- iParadigms, the leader in originality checking and plagiarism prevention, announced that its Turnitin WriteCycle solution has been adopted by the Milwaukee School District. WriteCycle's web-based writing management tools will play an important role in Milwaukee's efforts to integrate writing across its high-school curricula. <a href=\"http://turnitin.com/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin_RELEASE_120109_Milwaukee_Adoption.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	},
	{	date: "11/19/09", 
		anchor: 'usa-today',
		title: "Turnitin in USA Today article",
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- November 19, 2009 -- \"The number of academic misconduct violations at UCF rose 14 percent this year, according to the Office of Student Conduct. Reports from 136 students revealed the statistical data from the 2007-2008 to the 2008-2009 academic year. As defined by the Golden Rule, \"Academic misconduct includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, assisting another in cheating or plagiarism, and commercial use of academic materials.\" Nationally between 70 to 85 percent of students admit to cheating at one point in their academic career, said Dr. Nancy Stanlick, associate professor and assistant chair of the department of philosophy at UCF.\"</p><p>To find out about what University of Central Florida is doing about it, read <em><a href=\"http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/cheating-plagiarism-increases-14-percent-1.2041532\">Cheating, plagiarism increases 14 percent</a></em>.</p>"
	},
	{	date: "11/3/09", 
		anchor: 'peermark-nextgen',
		title: "PeerMark&trade; - Our next-generation student-to-student feedback tool",
		content: "<p>OAKLAND, Calif. -- November 3, 2009 -- PeerMark is a web-based collaboration tool enabling high school and college instructors to create and manage peer review assignments in which students read and comment on each other's work. As a component of the Turnitin WriteCycle&reg; solution, PeerMark replaces our previous-generation tool known as Peer Review. PeerMark is a major improvement over its predecessor, offering greater flexibility, ease of use, integration with major course management systems like Moodle (plus many others) and powerful features such as QuickMark comments and editing tools. Current WriteCycle customers get access to PeerMark at no extra charge. PeerMark is available in English, Spanish, French and Korean (with more languages coming soon). <a href=\"http://turnitin.com/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/RELEASE_110309_PeerMark_Announcement.pdf\">Read more</a>...</p>"
	}
];