Most college students have to work their way through school these days. Many are able to make ends meet during the school year by taking out student loans and receiving grants and scholarships. Often, though, students need to find work during the summer to pay for housing and those little things like car payments and […] … learn more→

Harvard University has announced it will sponsor five bike share stations in Allston and Longwood as part of a newly launched regional Bike Share program, Hubway. Harvard has also committed to sponsoring four bike share stations in the city of Cambridge when the bike share program expands regionally in Phase II of the initiative. The […] … learn more→

After 17 years of researching traumatic stress with war-afflicted populations (veterans and civilians) and job stress in the medical profession, Teresa McIntyre, a research professor in the department of psychology and the Texas Institute for Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics (TIMES), at the University of Houston (UH), decided to study another high risk occupation, middle school […] … learn more→

Usually when you think of school for adults, night school is the first thing that comes to mind. A classroom filled with parents getting their GED or working on a college degree. This isn’t far from correct, but a new system in Philadelphia is changing the way we envision adult school. Parent University works with […] … learn more→

Braying climate naysayers are annoying; but so are all those well-intentioned carbon tax advocates who fail to address the core problems and make the same mistakes time and time again. If we’re going to build the political momentum we need to price carbon in Australia, we need to think seriously about why we are doing […] … learn more→

A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield and Bangor University have used a computer climate model to study how freshwater entering the oceans at the end of the penultimate Ice Age 140,000 years ago affected the parts of the ocean currents that control climate. A paper based on the research, co-authored by Professor […] … learn more→

Cancer is now the leading cause of death in China. Chinese Ministry of Health data implicate cancer in close to a quarter of all deaths countrywide. As is common with many countries as they industrialize, the usual plagues of poverty — infectious diseases and high infant mortality — have given way to diseases more often […] … learn more→

Imagine cutting your shopping list down from ten standard household items that cost about $4 or $5 each to just one inexpensive item.  Sounds nice, right?  That one inexpensive item is baking soda, and it\’s not just for baking, folks.  With its expansive resume of uses, baking soda can be a hero in your household […] … learn more→

Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today. An analysis of the mummies from Nubia, a former kingdom that was located in present-day Sudan, provides details for the first time about the prevalence […] … learn more→

Political leaders and advisors from Latin American can now earn a graduate certificate in political management and strategic governance from the George Washington University from the confines of their own country and in their native language. GSPM International, an extension of GW’s Graduate School of Political Management, housed within GW’s College of Professional Studies (CPS), […] … learn more→