Are My Ideas Being Stolen?

BinaryGrind writes: "I just got started taking Computer Science classes at my local university and after reading Universities Patenting More Student Ideas I felt I needed to ask: How do I tell if any of my projects at while attending classes will be co-opted by my professors or the university itself and taken away from me? Is there anything I can do to prevent it from happening? What do I need to do to protect myself? Are there schools out there that won't take my work away from me if I discover TheNextBigThing(TM)? If it does happen is there anything I can do to fight back? The school I'm attending is Southern Utah University. Since its not a big university, I don't believe it has a big research and development department or anything of that ilk. I"m mostly wanting to cover my bases and not have my work stolen from me."