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Upfront Ventures partner Mark Shuster announced Chamillionaire as the company's new “Entrepreneur In Residence” in an article published in Bothsidesofthetable.com Sunday (February 22). “A while back Chamillionaire started telling me he wanted to immerse himself even more in the tech world – learning to build products,...

On the Washington, D.C., campus of Howard University, Silicon Valley is an ever-growing presence. The engineering school’s new Yahoo Data Center was christened such after a donation from the Sunnyvale Internet firm. Google’s fingerprints are all over the school’s computer science curriculum, which was redesigned with help from a “Googler-in-Residence” installed on campus. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg began the college iteration of her LeanIn movement there in fall 2013, and her company held an aggressive on-campus recruitment drive last year.