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Australian University Unveils New Renewable Power System
The University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in Australia has completed construction on a new thermal energy storage system that promises to cut the university’s energy usage by 40 percent. The unique system, which is being dubbed the “water battery,” utilizes power drawn from over 6,000 newly-installed solar panels to chill a 4.5-megalitres tank of… Read More
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Report Highlights the Most Sustainable Colleges and Universities
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) recently released its annual Sustainable Campus Index report, recognizing some of the world’s most sustainable colleges and universities. Topping AASHE’s list with “platinum” ratings are Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Stanford University, UC Irvine, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and Colorado… Read More
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Best Online Classes and Programs for SQL
Data science is one of the fastest-growing and most lucrative fields in the 21st century economy, so much so that it has been prominently and repeatedly referred to as “the new oil.” According to Glassdoor, the average yearly salary for data scientists is an impressive $117,345, while the highest earners make upwards of $150,000 per… Read More
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Best Online Classes for Korean
*Updated May 20, 2021 As K-pop and other aspects of the Korean culture attracts more attention throughout the globe, the country’s unique and original language Korean is becoming more popular. Created in 1446 by King Sejong, the most beloved King in the Korean history, Hangul, the Korean alphabet, was designed specifically for then a highly… Read More
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How Colleges Can Help Transgender Students Struggling with Mental Health
A recent study found that students who identify as transgender, gender nonconforming, or genderqueer, are up to four times more likely than their cisgendered peers to suffer from mental health issues. To come to that conclusion, researchers looked at self-reported rates of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self-injury and suicidality in more than 1,200 “gender minority… Read More
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The Amazon Is Burning: 4 Essential Reads on Brazil’s Vanishing Rainforest
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square miles of the rainforest this year. Don’t blame dry weather for the swift destruction of the world’s largest tropical forest, say environmentalists. These Amazonian wildfires are a human-made disaster, set by loggers and cattle… Read More
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XPRIZE Looking for University Groups to Create Robotic Avatar, Win Millions
XPRIZE Foundation is looking for university groups to join its $10 million ANA Avatar XPRIZE before the September 30 deadline. To win the grand prize, teams must create a robotic avatar capable of transporting a human’s “sense, actions, and presence to a remote location in real time.” Instead of relying on a plane or a… Read More
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The Frankel Loughran Starr & Vallone LLP Scholarship
Sponsor: Frankel Loughran Starr & Vallone LLP (FLSV®) is a premier accounting, tax advisory and compliance firm focused primarily in the financial services industry servicing sophisticated clients across the globe. FLSV’s clientele is comprised of leaders and innovators in the fields of investment banking, asset management, private equity, venture capital, real estate, hedge funds, Family… Read More
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Best Online Classes and Programs for Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly at the forefront of technological development. An exploding field growing ever-larger with recent developments in deep learning, AI has the potential to alter society as profoundly as the development of the assembly line during the Industrial Revolution. Already, AI has made its way into our daily life in the form… Read More
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Brands Innovate, Create, Move Towards Sustainable Fashion
About 20 years ago, “fast fashion” took the world by storm. The fashion industry found a way to rapidly mass-produce the latest trends and sell for cheaper than ever before. And as a result, people were able to buy more and more clothing. Today, we have five times the amount of clothing that our grandparents… Read More
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Universities Are Fighting for Clean Water for All
Let us use our imagination. Three hours of walking into the Kenyan desert, but somehow, your surroundings haven’t changed. The same endless, barren land, the same piercing heat, the same girl marching in front of you with her battered water buckets rattling as they hit against each other. Suddenly, all the girls in front of… Read More
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5 Tips for College Students to Avoid Burnout
Burnout is a stress-related state of exhaustion and often leads to feelings of isolation, low accomplishment and even depression. Although research has long shown that burnout affects employees, we now know burnout also affects students. As a researcher who specializes in identifying strategies to help college students get through their first year of college, I’d… Read More
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Opinion: Free College Proposals Should Include Private Colleges
Students can use federal financial aid to attend any college they want, whether public or private. But the “free college” proposals floated by some 2020 presidential candidates would increase federal funding only for community colleges or state-run universities. Private nonprofit universities would be excluded. The question is: Why? From my vantage point as scholar of… Read More
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23 Lessons for Freshmen as They Begin College
The Class of 2023 is arriving on university campuses across the country. For the majority of new college students and their parents, they’ve been so focused on the application process and securing financial assistance that successfully transitioning from high school to college is just coming into focus. I surveyed and interviewed current college students and… Read More
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A Play Book for College Kick-Off
The end of summer as we approach the fall season is one of my favorite times of the year. It’s football season but more importantly, it’s the start of a new school year. It is particularly exciting for those entering college, especially in their freshman year or first semester in college. Just like football, everyone… Read More
