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.
ZisBoomBah, a Let's Move! award-winning game developer and leader in making food fun for families, is working with non-profit public health initiative The Kids Cook Monday to integrate weekly cooking prompts into their already popular gaming platform. ZisBoomBah has incorporated Kids Cook Monday quests into their “Challenger Calendar”, a free online score-based game that lets children and parents set health and nutrition goals.
Mr. Lawrence S. Lewin, a highly respected and dedicated member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and founder of The Lewin Group, died on Sunday, April 29, after a lengthy illness. He was 74.
Throughout the month of May, the American College of Rheumatology, Arthritis Foundation, Mayo Clinic, and Nemours are partnering to celebrate Arthritis Action Month (formerly Arthritis Awareness Month).
Grammy Award winner Janis Ian will deliver the main address at the 2012 Warren Wilson College Commencement May 12. The commencement ceremony begins at 10 a.m. on the lawn of Sunderland Residence Hall.
John William Bardo has been named by the Kansas Board of Regents as the new president of Wichita State University, effective July 1. Bardo will become the 13th president of Wichita State, following President Donald Beggs' resignation June 30.
Engineering and business students at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J., are working with Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J. to create a health mobile on wheels that will sever the public and regional companies.
As total student loan debt in the U.S. eclipses the $1 trillion mark, a small private school in New York state continues to ensure that its graduates aren't saddled with large amounts of debt.
Mount Holyoke student Anita Haidary ’14 is the cofounder of Young Women for Change, a Kabul-based grassroots movement committed to empowering Afghan women to improve their lives through social and economic participation, political empowerment, awareness, and advocacy. She answered questions about her work with YWC.
U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Prize Recipient Steven Chu Joins Stellar Group of 2012 Rensselaer Honorary Degree Recipients.
A new Spanish-language videonovela, Aprende a vivir, features messages to help diabetes patients compare their treatment options to find a regimen that works best for them. It's entertaining and can be used as an education tool.
For Mount Holyoke seniors Hannah Blackmer ’12 and Dana Rubin ’12, graduation doesn’t mean job applications or internships. Instead, they plan to travel the country, collecting and telling the stories of people who have introduced environmentally sustainable practices in their daily lives.
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