Five leaders of the robot revolution
In our upcoming Sunday magazine, I profile Dennis Hong, director of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech and a leader in the movement to perfect the…
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- Extron NAV Series Delivers AVoIP Throughout Allied Health Veterans Hall at UNC Wilmington - June 1, 2021
Penn State officials head to court on perjury charges
Just hours after stepping down, two high-ranking Penn State administrators face arraignment Monday on charges they lied to a grand jury investigating former defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky and…
Student loans: The next bubble?
First the dot.coms popped, then mortgages. Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can…
Why science majors change their mind
Politicians and educators have been wringing their hands for years over test scores showing American students falling behind their counterparts in Slovenia and Singapore, the New York Times…
College students still vulnerable to bullying
Bullying and cyberbullying don't end when students go from high school to college, a new study finds, HealthDay reports.
Students need lessons on where to find their facts, study finds
A new analysis of “unoriginal” writing by the anti-plagiarism site Turnitin finds that college students aren’t much better than high school students at choosing their sources, the Washington…
Mark Zuckerberg is going back to Harvard
Mark Zuckerberg is heading back to Harvard, seven years after he dropped out to run Facebook, the Huffington Post reports.
Opportunity Nation highlights a lack of upward mobility
Kevin Jennings knows a thing or two about the American Dream. He came from a trailer park in Lewisville, N.C., where he was raised by a single mother…
Four ways to teach students to write
Every summer for the past decade, we have conducted a writing program for college-bound, low-income minority students, say William G. Tierney, professor of higher education and director of…
Amazon launches the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
Amazon took another step toward pulling its hardware and digital content into an increasingly tight package on Wednesday when it announced the launch of the Kindle Owners’ Lending…