Why many farmers are starting their seedlings at a college-owned greenhouse
After three snow storms in as many weeks, deep snow is covering the ground everywhere in Maine and planting season seems impossibly far away.
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The Wrong Expert on #MeToo?
Sociologist’s essay about the “gray” area of sexual consent sets off allegations of rape against him and doubts about whether he should be teaching a class on masculinities in America.
Body consciousness: stereotypes ‘still hold back female scholars’
Stereotypes about attractiveness and androgyny still hold back the progress of women in the sciences and mathematics, a scholar has argued.
Intl curricula to promote Nanjing students’ college-readiness
The Yuhuatai High School in Nanjing, Jiangsu province is to introduce a top-tier international education program to promote Chinese secondary school students’ college-readiness and help more of them realize their Ivy-League college dreams.
From service dogs to a prosthetic arm, Apple proposes 13 disability emojis
Apple wants emojis to better represent people with disabilities.
Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the climate change angle
As a specialist journalist operating in a specific field, whenever a big story breaks — I mean a really big story — the temptation is to search for the angle that applies to the topic you know best.
Google cofounder’s flying taxi takes to the skies in New Zealand
Google cofounder Larry Page's flying taxi project is cleared for take off.
The 7,000–Mile Divide
85% of Chinese international students at Penn say they don't have one American friend.
US sanctions Iranian hackers for ‘stealing university data’
The United States has imposed sanctions on an Iranian company and 10 individuals for alleged cyber attacks, including on hundreds of universities.
Trump Takes Another Swipe at Community Colleges
President Trump, in forum on issues facing young people, extols vocational training and repeats comments that many educators said reflected ignorance of the two-year sector. He also says he is more popular on college campuses than most realize.
