The No Child Left Behind Act has bolstered language test scores but done little to improve math and reading scores for students in rural Alabama schools, according to a new study by Auburn University and RTI International.
TTU engineering and business students have been working together to design packaging and marketing plans to launch a variety of Turkish products in the U.S. They will travel to Turkey this semester to discuss the feasibility of their work at a partner university.
Approximately 700 Baccalaureate degree candidates from Nova Southeastern University’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, the Abraham S. Fischler School of Education, and the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, will hear from several inspiring speakers during their Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12.
Karl Pillemer is professor of human development at Cornell University and author of the recently published “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.” Based on surveys of over 1,200 of America’s elders, Pillemer uncovered their advice to the younger generation for living a happy, healthy and successful life. Their graduation advice includes: make the most of a bad job, choose excitement over money, use graduation gifts to travel, and take risks to avoid regret.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the new Manufacturing Innovation Learning Lab (MILL). Focused on educating the next generation of manufacturing leaders and pioneers, MILL builds upon the many successes of its predecessor, the award-winning Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AML).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Lester Gerhardt last month received the prestigious Benjamin Garver Lamme Award and Medal from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
A team of researchers from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy along with colleagues from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in Spain, explain a puzzling water anomaly in a paper published in the May 9 edition of Physical Review Letters entitled, “Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice.” The work details an anomaly – a deviation from the common form – of water ice that has been largely neglected and never before explained.
Among California's persistently lowest-achieving schools, those that have implemented aggressive turnaround reforms mandated by the federal government are showing significant improvements just one year later, a new study finds.
University of Utah students in the American Indian Patient Experience Think Tank course at the University of Utah’s Honors College took an in-depth look at the complex issues surrounding American Indian healthcare.
Summer internships are beginning, and career-related research from Kansas State University is helping determine what can make those internships more meaningful for students. Kerri Day Keller, director of career and employment services, has studied internships as high-impact educational practices and identified eight themes that characterize effective internships.
The narrative of UH senior Emina Sadic includes the fateful words of her mother, uttered in a Bosnian refugee camp: "Your father is dead." Sadic is graduating with honors on Friday.
Food professionals from all over the globe will be gathering together in Las Vegas for the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) 2012 Annual Meeting & Food Expo. This is the only annual event that brings together professionals involved in both the science and the business of food — experts from industry, academia and government.
Kansas State University researchers in landscape architecture are creating a schoolyard that can become a therapeutic landscape for children with autism. They have designed a place where elementary school children with autism can feel comfortable and included.
The hundreds of students who will don the cap and gown for commencement bring varied experiences, struggles and interests to this important milestone.
Stony Brook University will celebrate the dedication of the new home of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology.
Students at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing again worked together to acknowledge the important contributions made by nurses serving in Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. armed forces.
University of California President Mark G. Yudof announced today (May 3) that he has selected Pradeep K. Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s highly regarded College of Engineering, also known as the Carnegie Institute of Technology, to serve as the eighth chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.
Imagine spending an internship engaging, designing and educating at the world’s largest museum and research complex. That’s what students from the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Maine and George Washington University did while interning at the Smithsonian—working behind-the-scenes alongside experts in art, history, culture and science.
Building upon the success of its highly acclaimed Adirondack Semester and its nationally known environmental studies programs, St. Lawrence University will launch a Sustainability Semester in the spring of 2013.
The first-ever Cornell Cup USA presented by Intel, a national engineering student competition to explore embedded design, takes place Friday and Saturday at Walt Disney World. Twenty-two teams from the nation's top schools make up an elite corps of finalists.
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