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Employers Could Test for Emotional Intelligence in Job Interviews
Jobs require soft, relationship skills — emotional intelligence or EQ — as much as hard skills. In fact, as reported in Forbes, a study by the Carnegie Institute of Technology found that while only 15 percent of financial success was due to technical ability, 85 percent was due to skills in “human engineering,” such as… Read More
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A Broke College Student’s Guide to the Best of LA
Although college should be a time for travels and adventure, the heavy workload and rising tuition fees often leave students stranded in their little campus islands. However, if you can gather up a few friends and look around carefully, there are many places both affordable and worth the visit. Often thought as an expensive city… Read More
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A Year Later, Has the Twitter Response to #MeToo Been Effective?
While many sexual violence prevention strategies on Twitter can be potentially effective, a new study has found that they still have gaps and may even leave room for some misinformation and myths about sexual violence. Since October 2017, the #MeToo movement has exploded into a global phenomenon, giving victims of sexual violence a voice, confronting… Read More
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Study Finds Underlying Reason for Bias Against Immigrants
A new study led by Yale University has found that fear of disloyalty drives members of a majority group to hold negative bias against minority group individuals who claim more than one identity. The researchers wondered if the societal majority group had negative bias against immigrants, specifically those who prefer to hold dual identities —… Read More
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How Financial Literacy Is Key to Reducing Student Debt
Updated March 23, 2022 We are at a crisis point when it comes to student loan debt. Student loan debt in the United States has reached an all-time high of $1.749 trillion, with 43.4 million students having federal student loan debt. The average student graduates with $37113 in federal student loan debt, and the average… Read More
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Inspired Immigrant Uses Architecture Degree to Build Affordable Housing Back Home
The night is pitch-dark and silent. Five boys fit into two twin-sized beds, hardly able to move, but still a rare luxury in the neighborhood. Crawling over his cousins to get down from bed, a boy tiptoes to his mother’s room and spends the night on a mat, but with more space to himself. Growing… Read More
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How to Get an Internship: What Every College Student Needs to Know
Often used as the golden ticket to landing a job right after college, internships are probably in every undergraduate’s mind. Especially as we draw closer to the end of the semester, many will start visiting their career development centers for guidance. When I was in school, I thought I needed to get an internship for… Read More
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Your Dog’s Life Expectancy May Depend on Its Color
The color of a dog may dictate how long it lives, a new study suggests. In the study, a team of researchers led by the University of Sydney found that chocolate Labradors live significantly less than their black and yellow counterparts. Published in the open access journal Canine Genetics and Epidemiology, the study reveals how… Read More
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Bringing Back Hope, One Child at a Time
Airstrikes over heads, buildings crashing down and kids crying endlessly — one might have thought it was the closest thing to hell on earth and simply walked away. But for Steve Sosebee, at age 23, his first impression of war-stricken Palestine in the winter of 1988 gave him more the reason to return after finishing… Read More
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Mysterious Fall of Ancient Angkor Is a Warning to Modern Cities
The stone monuments of Angkor, an ancient city in modern day Cambodia, have long left scholars curious about the reason for its collapse in the 15th century. Founded in the 9th century, Angkor was built upon an incredibly extensive infrastructure. Its complex network of canals and reservoirs captured, stored and delivered water both for flood… Read More
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How to Get a Job: What Every College Student Needs to Know
College students looking for a job after graduation should know that a step-by-step manual that works for everyone simply doesn’t exist when it comes to landing a job. With that said, the goal is to direct you to a starting place and give you some tips that can be applied to most, but not all,… Read More
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Sustainable Fashion Feels Good and Looks Even Better
Sustainability has a new look. No longer just about hand-me-downs in families and vintages in thrift stores, sustainable fashion has been the talk of the year in the fashion industry. As more consumers are getting interested, the market is responding. According to a research by Common Objective, in the past six years, Google searches for… Read More
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Harassed, Hurt, But Now Paying Kindness Forward
4 a.m. Campus is dark. Everyone seems to be asleep. Almost everyone. A group of students swiftly moves around different residence halls and commons, leaves hundreds of snack bags at each building, and quickly disappears from the scene. Even Santa Claus can’t seem to match the students’ agility. Next morning, pleasantly surprised with anonymous snack… Read More
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Disparities In Mental Health Services Leave Students of Color with Less Care
Among college students with clinically significant mental health problems, significantly less number of students of color received treatment than those of white students, a new study has found. The paper is published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Students are aching inside Every year, the number of students in need of mental health assistance continues… Read More
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Universities Show the World How to Erase Carbon Footprints
In April 2018, American University celebrated becoming the nation’s first carbon-neutral university, meaning the school emits no greenhouse gas to the atmosphere — either by not generating them in the first place or by offsetting any emissions. And American University has managed to accomplish its goal two years early. And it’s doing just fine —… Read More
