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Pitt Startup Enables Medical Community to Recycle Single-Use Plastics
In an effort to save the environment, companies from across all types of industries are joining in to phase out single-use plastics. But in the medical industry, it hasn’t been so easy. While Starbucks can survive without plastic straws, scientists and clinicians rely on single-use plastics — which are cheap, disposable and, most importantly, sterile… Read More
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Nonprofits Team Up to Help Students Left Jobless, Homeless by COVID-19
In early March, colleges and universities across the United States shut down their campuses and transitioned to online classes. Although they were acting to slow down the spread of COVID-19, the closures have negatively impacted hundreds of thousands of students, leaving many jobless, homeless or struggling to access the internet. Students depend on their campuses… Read More
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How the Creative Industry Is Driving Social Impact
The creative industry is exerting its influence to drive impact on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a set of 17 goals to be accomplished by 2030. The industry’s efforts were highlighted during the SDG Media Summit, an annual event created by PVBLIC Foundation, which focuses on harnessing the power of media, marketing and advertising… Read More
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At These Colleges, Students Begin Serious Research Their First Year
Rat brains to understand Parkinson’s disease. Drones to detect plastic landmines. Social media to predict acts of terrorism. These are just a few potentially lifesaving research projects that students have undertaken in recent years at universities in New York and Maryland. While each project is interesting by itself, there’s something different about these particular research… Read More
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Student Spotlight: UCF Undergrad Helps NASA Unlock Clues to the Origin of Life
For Jennifer Nolau, a University of Central Florida (UCF) physics student and self-described “sci-fi nerd,” working this past summer with NASA was a dream come true. Instead of sleeping in or working a part-time job — as most undergrads do during summer break — Nolau spent her time examining images of boulders and rocks from… Read More
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TUN Student Spotlight: Students’ Hands-Free Toothbrush Grows Into $5 Million Company
7:50 a.m. The alarm goes off. You have just 10 minutes to get ready for a class presentation. When every second feels so precious, three minutes for brushing your teeth is a problem. But to Tairan Li and Chao Huang, both industrial and interaction design majors at Syracuse University (SU) and co-founders of Panacea, this… Read More
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TUN Student Spotlight: ASU Grad Makes Helping Others Look Easy
Kourtney Conn, a recent graduate from Arizona State University, is built to help others — it’s practically in her DNA. In the third grade, Conn made flyers by hand to encourage her neighbors to donate money to breast cancer research. At that age, she dreamt of growing up to be a “doctor-astronaut” who lived in… Read More
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Universities Are Stepping Up to Fight Campus Hunger, But Where Is the Government?
Food insecurity is a huge concern among college students. And although many colleges and universities have taken strides to make sure all of their students are well-fed, the government has some work to do, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests. Today, to earn a high-paying job, a college education is next… Read More
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Gonzaga Community Program Unites Students, Immigrants, Refugees
Every Saturday, in a small classroom at Gonzaga University, a group of graduate students is building a community that unites students with immigrants and refugees. Established in 2012, Gonzaga ESL Community Outreach (GECO) is a community-based program that provides free English as a Second Language (ESL) classes weekly to immigrant and refugee adults in Spokane,… Read More
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TUN Student Spotlight: Mercer Student Supports Ecuadorian Farmers Through Coffee
Twenty-three-year-old Shane Buerster had never drank a cup of coffee before starting Z Beans Coffee, a company based in Macon, Georgia, when he was a senior at Mercer University. His parents didn’t drink coffee, so it was never in his house growing up. But to Buerster, it never mattered what he sold. His mission was… Read More
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ATI Alliance on Pace to Send 50,000 Low-income Students to College
A nationwide alliance of more than 100 leading colleges and universities has covered significant ground in opening up opportunities for low- to moderate-income students, according to a report by the American Talent Initiative (ATI). Since the 2015-16 school year, ATI members have sent 7,291 more students who receive Pell grants to the nation’s top colleges… Read More
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TUN Student Spotlight: Central Michigan U Student Builds Greenhouse for Orphans
Taylor Crowley, an environmental studies major from Central Michigan University, enhanced her learning in a rather unconventional way — working under the blistering Belizean sun to help construct a greenhouse for orphaned girls to grow food. Crowley spent six weeks in the often 100-degree heat of San Ignacio, Belize, in order to use her studies… Read More
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Professor Teaches Students How to Enjoy Life, Both On and Off the Clock
There are many benefits to attending college, but higher education is primarily geared to prepare young adults with the skill sets they need to excel in their future jobs. And in order to enjoy a long, rewarding and happy career, students must learn more than, for example, how to draft a report, create a spreadsheet… Read More
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Diversity Efforts Put More Women, Minorities in Med School
More women and minorities are being accepted into medical school, Yale University researchers find. This positive growth was sparked by two diversity standards introduced nearly 10 years ago by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), an organization that accredits medical education programs in the U.S. The standards made every institution capable of granting a… Read More
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New Program Helps Student Parents Pay for Child Care
Attending college has become a societal norm, and in most cases, successful careers are only possible with a degree in higher education. Unfortunately, college costs are skyrocketing. And an average annual price tag of $25,290 for a year at a public university doesn’t make it easy — especially for those with children to support. But… Read More
