Has Twitter transformed the PhD experience?
Just a few weeks after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the platform’s first tweet in March 2006, the social media network gained its first PhD student.
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The Shrinking Humanities Major
Number of bachelor's degrees awarded fell 8.7 percent between 2012 and 2014, study finds.
‘Performance-based funding’ proposed for Illinois higher education
While Gov. Bruce Rauner is calling for a 20 percent cut in guaranteed state support for public university operations next year, his budget proposal would spend an additional $50 million on “performance-based funding.”
How real is the hypersonic aircraft revolution?
We live in an era of fast technological change: self-driving cars, drones, artificial intelligence.
New spider discovered in Australia is named Brian
Australia's most newly-discovered spider surfs, swims and can catch prey up to three times its own size.
How Trump and Sanders tapped America’s economic rage
Finally, somebody is listening.
How a hacker’s typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist
A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said.
The Carbon Counters: Tracking Emissions in a Post-Paris World
In the wake of the Paris climate agreement, developing countries find themselves in need of analysts capable of monitoring their emissions.
End of grants ‘likely to force thousands more students to work’
The loss of student maintenance grants this autumn is likely to force thousands more undergraduates to live at home and take longer hours of paid work, a survey suggests.
Rethinking Gen Ed
Amid concerns that requirements may not mean much to students or professors, Harvard and Duke Universities both look to curricular changes to improve undergraduate education.
