Two More Colleges Announce They’re Closing As Pandemic’s Costs Linger The University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos, California and Wells College in Aurora, New York, have announced they will will close at the end of the spring semester. 04/30/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
When colleges close or merge, what happens to the students? U.S. colleges are now closing at a pace of one per week, and alumni wonder about the value of degrees they’ve earned. 04/30/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
A look at the protests of the war in Gaza that have emerged at US colleges Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many U.S. colleges following the arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University this month. The students protesting the ... 04/29/2024 - 8:07 pm | View Link
Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students? The pace of long-predicted college closings has sped up dramatically this spring, threatening to throw more and more students off the path to a degree. 04/26/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.