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Academic Minute: Plants Can Hear
In today's Academic Minute, Heidi Appel and Rex Cocroft, scientists at the University of Missouri, demonstrate the way plants can...
More Specificity on Benefits of Community College
Disadvantaged students who enroll at community colleges and who would not otherwise have attended college are more likely to earn...
Wisconsin Sues Corinthian
Wisconsin's attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen, this week sued Corinthian Colleges over allegations that the for-profit chain engaged in "unfair...
Columbia Will Pay $9M to Settle Suit on AIDS Grants
Columbia University has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that the university made false claims...
New Higher Ed Words
Our friends at Times Higher Education asked their readers to nominate new words for academics that need to be in...
New Bloomberg Effort to Help Low-Income Students
Bloomberg Philanthropies and other nonprofit groups will today announce a new effort to help talented low-income high school students get...
Academic Minute: Rethinking Yawns
In today's Academic Minute, Andrew Gallup, an assistant professor of psychology explains his theory that yawns are a mechanism designed...
17% of Female MIT Students Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted
About 17 percent of undergraduate women who responded to a survey at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have...