Many adjuncts wonder why colleges that employ them year after year, giving them good reviews course after course, seem to have no interest in them when tenure-track jobs open up.

How people perceive and taste alcohol depends on genetic factors, and that influences whether they "like" and consume alcoholic beverages, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

EdCast, a company that is creating a cloud-based vision of education that spans institutions, announced today that it has scored $6 million in funding.

All on-campus fraternities at Wesleyan University must soon become coeducational or they will be shut down ...

The major oil companies in the U.S. have not had to pay a price for the contribution their products make to climate change.

A proposal to raise tuition at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism has some faculty members, alumni and students worried about destroying the school’s distinctive character.

Facebook Inc's Oculus VR unit announced an upgraded prototype of its virtual reality headset that has higher resolution and built-in audio, but the company said it is not ready to sell a device to consumers.

He's one of the fieriest political activists in Hong Kong — he's been called an "extremist" by China's state-run media — and he's not even old enough to drive.

Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign definitively told Steven Salaita this month that he was out of a job there.