Last Thursday, as Mary Hotvedt stepped down from her position as chair of the Western New Mexico University Board of Regents, she defended President Joe Shepard and the board from criticism. The board is under fire for spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on fancy furniture and foreign
The digital world has changed the way we connect and entertain ourselves. One of the biggest changes is the rise of social media platforms like Instagram, which are wildly popular among young people. But is all this online time affecting students, especially those studying to become nurses? A recent
Imagine a spot on Queen’s University campus where people gather to learn and connect with Indigenous ways of knowing and being. This special place is the Outdoor Indigenous Gathering Space. It’s going to be named after someone very special: Kanonhsyonne, also known as Janice Hill. She’s been a key p
Antisemitism on college campuses has hit an all-time high since the 2023 Hamas-Israel conflict. The University of Rochester recently experienced a nasty wave of hate when anti-Israel students plastered threatening posters targeting Jewish faculty and staff. The posts accused them of severe crimes li
Recently, a group of students from Salisbury University in Maryland were involved in an incident that made headlines. They were initially charged with serious crimes, including hate crimes, after allegedly attacking a man they had lured to an off-campus apartment. However, the charges for most of th
Imagine this: A group of students from Salisbury University, aged 18 to 21, were once facing serious charges for an alleged attack. Now, in a surprising change, 12 out of 15 students are no longer accused of hate crimes or first-degree assault. They now face lesser charges of false imprisonment and
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, universities shut down, changing student routines. This study looked into how much time students spent walking or biking (active transportation), sitting without breaks (uninterrupted sitting time), and using screens for studying (screen time to study). It aimed to se
Imagine your phone or electric car battery lasting way longer and being much lighter. That's the promise of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, which a U. K. startup called Molyon is working on. Founded by scientists from Cambridge University, Molyon is using a special material called molybdenum disulf
Have you ever thought about how people feel connected to their community? Scientists recently checked this out by using a special scale called the Sense of Community Coherence Scale. They wanted to see if it could measure how understandable, manageable, and meaningful people find their community liv
Years back, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had a tough call. Should she join other states looking into Trump University, where students paid big bucks for classes that some said were shady? Though complaints came in, Bondi and Kamala Harris, then-California AG, both passed. They had received cam
