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  • 3 Ways to Make Your Voice Heard Besides Protesting

    3 Ways to Make Your Voice Heard Besides Protesting

    More Americans are trying to make their voices heard these days. Approximately one in five Americans participated in a protest or rally between early 2016 and early 2018, according to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. A similar proportion reported they expected to become more involved in political causes in the next year. Similarly, the… 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

  • TUN Student Spotlight: Mercer Student Supports Ecuadorian Farmers Through Coffee

    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

  • The Key to Success for Minority and Women Ph.D. Students iIn STEM

    The Key to Success for Minority and Women Ph.D. Students iIn STEM

    Women and minorities, unfortunately, continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields. To understand the underlying factors leading to such disparities, a group of researchers from UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and the California Institute of Technology looked at how gender, race and ethnicity could impact a doctoral student’s success by measuring differences in publication rates between… Read More

  • Why Immigrants Are More Likely to Study STEM Than U.S.-Born Students

    Why Immigrants Are More Likely to Study STEM Than U.S.-Born Students

    U.S. immigrant children are more likely than US.-born children to study and pursue careers in STEM fields, a new study by Duke University and Stanford finds. The researchers attribute these findings to the immigrant children’s comparative advantage in non-English-intensive subjects and comparative disadvantage in English-intensive subjects. “Most studies on the assimilation of immigrants focus on… Read More

  • TUN Student Spotlight: Central Michigan U Student Builds Greenhouse for Orphans

    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

  • How to Keep Up with Your New Year’s Resolution

    How to Keep Up with Your New Year’s Resolution

    The start of a new year comes with many resolutions. People make it their goal to spend more time at the gym, raise their grades, eat healthier, move up at work and much more. The problem is, 80 percent of these goals fall apart once the second week of February comes along.   In order… Read More

  • Would You Delete Facebook for $1,000?

    Would You Delete Facebook for $1,000?

    Everyone has friends, family members or co-workers who are constantly talking about how much they would love to delete their Facebook account. Well, why haven’t they? Chances are, they are probably bluffing, and their Facebook account might mean more to them than they would care to admit. A recent study, combining research gathered by three… Read More

  • Professor Teaches Students How to Enjoy Life, Both On and Off the Clock

    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

  • How Educators Can Promote Inclusivity for Black Women in STEM

    How Educators Can Promote Inclusivity for Black Women in STEM

    Women make up just one-quarter of the U.S. workforce in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The number is even lower for women of color — fewer than 1 in 10 women of color are employed scientists and engineers, according to a report by the National Science Foundation. There is a national… Read More

  • New Initiative May Give Women More Power in U.S. National Security And Foreign Policy

    New Initiative May Give Women More Power in U.S. National Security And Foreign Policy

    The representation of women in both the U.S. military and government has been increasing in recent years, but there is still a long way to go in order to reach true equality. Currently, women make up only 18 percent of the officer corps and 4 percent of the enlisted forces in the U.S. military and… Read More

  • How Chinese Food Can Help Friends, Strangers Cooperate

    How Chinese Food Can Help Friends, Strangers Cooperate

    Chinese food is one of America’s favorite foods. But did you know that having Chinese food even with strangers can boost cooperation and help with negotiations? This is because sharing a plate of food, as is customary in Chinese, Indian and other cultures, leads to better collaboration and therefore faster resolutions, a new study finds.… Read More

  • Diversity Efforts Put More Women, Minorities in Med School

    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

  • Is It Time to Treat Bigotry As a Public Health Problem?

    Is It Time to Treat Bigotry As a Public Health Problem?

    Last Wednesday, four days before the start of Chanukah, Elizabeth Midlarsky, a holocaust scholar and professor at Columbia Teachers College, walked back to her office to find swastikas and the derogatory term “Yid” spray-painted on her walls. On Friday, a Hispanic father and son were beaten and bloodied outside of a tire shop in Salt… Read More

  • New Program Helps Student Parents Pay for Child Care

    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

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