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St. Thomas Aquinas College has reached a defining moment in its academic development. The Sparkill, New York institution has been awarded a $345,639 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), one of the most competitive federal funding programs supporting scholarship in the United States. The NEH grant will fund the next phase of […]
Why Wentworth Added an Applied AI Major Now Wentworth Institute of Technology, the career-focused university of technology in Boston, has launched a Bachelor of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence, and the program is already attracting regional media attention. WBZ-TV recently visited campus to report on the new degree, which welcomed its first students at the […]
In a laboratory in Southern California, a team of undergraduate researchers is reshaping how the United States approaches radar communications and radio-frequency (RF) engineering. At Whittier College, Jordan Hanson, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has spent recent years designing and 3D-printing RF systems with practical applications in phased-array radar, drone detection, and […]
In a city as diverse as Las Vegas, communicating effectively across cultural lines is a practical necessity rather than an abstract ideal. The University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) addresses this reality directly through Culture and Communication (COM 133), an undergraduate course offered by the Department of Communication Studies within the Greenspun College of Urban […]
Would you rearrange your career and home so your aging parents could live with you? Would you greet strangers with a warm smile on a crowded street? Your answers reveal more about your culture than you might expect. For three decades, psychologists struggled to measure what truly separates societies — until a research team led […]
Finding dependable childcare remains one of the most persistent challenges for working families across the USA, while college students often struggle to find flexible jobs that fit around demanding schedules. A startup called Sport Sitters addresses both problems at once, and a team of engineering students at Arizona State University is now playing a central […]
Friendship is one of the few experiences that touches nearly every part of a human life. It shapes how children learn to cooperate, how adults cope with stress, and how people recover from illness and setbacks. Yet for something so universal, friendship is rarely examined with the seriousness it deserves. That is changing. Researchers at […]
Standing on the deck of a 208-foot research vessel while 30-foot waves batter the hull is not a typical college classroom. For Keon Davis, a fourth-year astrophysics major at Arizona State University, it became exactly that during a monthlong summer expedition across the Atlantic Ocean. Winds howled at 20 mph, conversation was nearly impossible, and […]
Philanthropy has reached a historic milestone at University of the Pacific, and its effects are being felt directly by students across all three of the university’s California campuses. During the 2025-26 academic year, more than 9,000 donors contributed nearly $63 million to Pacific, generating the second-highest fundraising total in the institution’s 175-year history. For current […]
University of the Pacific has entered its 175th year with what President Christopher Callahan called “tremendous progress” on nearly every measure that matters in modern higher education: enrollment, fundraising, national rankings, and academic reach. Speaking at his fifth annual State of the University address on September 3, Callahan outlined a university gaining measurable momentum at […]
