Month: January 2019

  • Lessons From ‘Spider-Man’: How Video Games Could Change College Science Education

    Lessons From ‘Spider-Man’: How Video Games Could Change College Science Education

    Like many people over the holidays, I spent some time – maybe too much – playing one of the most popular and best reviewed video games of 2018: “Spider-Man.” While I thought I’d be taking a break from chemistry research, I found myself web-swinging through virtual research missions all over New York City. I collected… Read More

  • Eat Veggies! It Will Make You and The Earth Healthier

    Eat Veggies! It Will Make You and The Earth Healthier

    Eating a diet of poultry, whole grains and vegetables isn’t just beneficial to your health; it is also better for the environment! By assessing the carbon footprint of what more than 16,000 individuals consume in a day, researchers from Tulane University and the University of Michigan have found that environmentally-conscious eaters also have healthier diets.… Read More

  • How to Manage Federal Student Loans With MOHELA

    How to Manage Federal Student Loans With MOHELA

    If you’ve taken out federal student loans to finance your education (like I did) and you have MOHELA as your loan servicer, you need to take stock of where you stand with respect to your loans and learn about your repayment options. This is critical if you want to put your best “financial” foot forward… Read More

  • If You Thought Colleges Making the SAT Optional Would Level The Playing Field, Think Again

    If You Thought Colleges Making the SAT Optional Would Level The Playing Field, Think Again

    When colleges and universities began to make the SAT an optional part of the admissions process, the hope was that it would expand access to the nation’s most selective institutions to groups that had historically been shut out. The reality is – at least at selective liberal arts colleges – the decision by a growing… Read More

  • Institutions Overlook Community College Transfer Students, Despite Their Success

    Institutions Overlook Community College Transfer Students, Despite Their Success

    Society favors the “classic” college experience, in which students graduate from high school and immediately move away to settle into four years of new classes, culture, friends and independence. But today, attaining the “classic” college experience isn’t as easy as it once was. Mostly due to skyrocketing tuition prices, many well-prepared students have to start… Read More

  • A Teen Scientist Helped Me Discover Tons of Golf Balls Polluting the Ocean

    A Teen Scientist Helped Me Discover Tons of Golf Balls Polluting the Ocean

    Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gripping a cotton swab with its tail. As a scientist researching marine plastic pollution, I thought I had seen a lot. Then, early… Read More

  • Featured Scholarships Today – January 23, 2019

    Featured Scholarships Today – January 23, 2019

    Click on the titles to see details about each scholarship. 1. Sweet and Simple Scholarship – $1,500 2. Broke College Student Scholarship – $5,888 3. Mainstream News Sucks Scholarship – $5,555 Read More

  • Interactive Webpage Lets People Explore Their Risk of Developing a Mental Disorder

    Interactive Webpage Lets People Explore Their Risk of Developing a Mental Disorder

    Mental illness doesn’t discriminate. It can affect children, college students, adults and the elderly. And unfortunately, after someone is diagnosed with a mental health disorder, the risk of developing another increases, a new study confirms. Although this initially comes off as bad news, the researchers were able to spin it into something positive that can… Read More

  • What You Need to Know to Manage Your FedLoan Account

    What You Need to Know to Manage Your FedLoan Account

    If you’ve taken out federal student loans to finance your education (like I did) and you have FedLoan Servicing as your loan servicer, you need to take stock of where you stand with respect to your loans and learn about your repayment options. This is critical if you want to put your best “financial” foot… Read More

  • 8 Philadelphia Bands for College Music Fans to Keep an Eye on

    8 Philadelphia Bands for College Music Fans to Keep an Eye on

    Philly may not always have been known for its music scene, but the city has quietly grown into one of the nation’s musical centers in the past decade. Philadelphia has become a haven for musicians seeking refuge from steep rents as well as proximity to major cultural centers in nearby NYC and Boston. Known for… Read More

  • Martin Luther King Jr. and His Support of Unions

    Martin Luther King Jr. and His Support of Unions

    If Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Those disadvantages have persisted. Today, for instance, the wealth of… Read More

  • Featured Scholarships Today – January 21, 2019

    Featured Scholarships Today – January 21, 2019

    Click on the titles to see details about each scholarship. 1.The LAGRANT Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship – $2,500 2. Broke College Student Scholarship – $5,888 3. Mainstream News Sucks Scholarship – $5,555 Read More

  • More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies — And That’s a Good Thing

    More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies — And That’s a Good Thing

    Back in the 1980s, Bates College and Bowdoin College were nearly the only liberal arts colleges not to require applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores. On Jan. 10, FairTest, a Boston-based organization that has been pushing back against America’s testing regime since 1985, announced that the number of colleges that are test-optional has… Read More

  • Listening to Nature: How Sound Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change

    Listening to Nature: How Sound Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change

    Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical environmental signifier. Increasingly, we are learning that humans and animals are not the only organisms that use sound to communicate. So… Read More

  • Can You Trust ‘Rate My Professors’?

    Can You Trust ‘Rate My Professors’?

    Nearly every day, college students are faced with decisions that could change the direction of their lives. Career paths are molded by the judgments students make in college, such as choosing one professor or class over another. For help making these difficult decisions, students often turn to Rate My Professors, a popular online destination where… Read More

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