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Medical School Applications, Enrollments Up
The number of first-time applicants to medical school increased by 2.6 percent in 2011, to 32,654, the Association of American...
Academic Minute: China’s Feng Shui Forests
In today’s Academic Minute, Christopher Coggins of Simon's Rock of Bard College explains how the Chinese practice of feng shui...
Fighting Off the Zombies
The Star-Ledger examines the growing popularity of large-scale anti-zombie warfare as a student game. Last week, students at both Drew...
CUNY Finds Success With Intense Remediation
The City University of New York, facing an increasing population of students who graduate from high school, sometimes with good...
Facing Protests, Cantor Calls Off Speech at Penn
Facing the prospect of protests from the Occupy Philadelphia movement, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Friday called off a...
Twitter Rebellion at Moscow State U.
Journalism students at Moscow State University used Twitter to protest the way an appearance of Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev...
Winners of 'Dance Your Ph.D.' Announced
Joel Miller, a biomedical engineer at the University of Western Australia, is this year's winner of Science's "Dance Your Ph.D."...
American Studies Association, U. of California Faculty Back Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street movement is receiving new backing from academe. The Council of the American Studies Association has released...