Scott Brandt is used to Silicon Valley tech firms like Apple and Yahoo turning to him and his students for an infusion of low-cost tech innovation.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt says the company is pulling its support of a conservative political group because he believes it is lying on climate change.

Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid.

The global campaign to encourage investors to divest from fossil fuel assets secured its biggest victory to date Monday when heirs to the Rockefeller family announced their intention to ditch their holdings in fossil fuel companies.

Imagine this: Completing four years of college without seeing your tuition increase even once.

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.