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Do You Know Your Ecological Footprint? Penn State Students Will Soon Learn Their “PawPrint”
What is your ecological footprint? First-year students at University Park, Penn State University’s largest campus, will be measuring their ecological footprint with the help of the PawPrint, a student-centered metric created by Andrew Lau, associate professor of engineering design at Penn State. Lau brought the PawPrint project to Penn State’s Sustainability Institute’s Reinvention Fund,… Read More
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How to Change Your B-1/B-2 Visitor Visa to M-1 Student Visa
Visitors who enter the United States on B-1 (business) or B-2 (pleasure) visas are not allowed to enroll in a course of study that leads to an academic degree or vocational certificate. So, if you are in the United States on a B-1 or B-2 visitor visa and would like to study full-time, you must… Read More
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How to Change Your B-1/B-2 Visitor Visa to F-1 Student Visa
Visitors who enter the United States on B-1 (business) or B-2 (pleasure) visas are not allowed to enroll in a course of study that leads to an academic degree or vocational certificate. So, if you are in the United States on a B-1 or B-2 visitor visa and would like to study full-time, you must… Read More
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Study In the USA – All You Need to Know About M-1 Student Visa
Anyone who wants to study full time in the United States but holds a non-U.S. passport will need a student visa. (The Visa Waiver Program is only applicable to citizens or nationals of participating countries who travel to the United States for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less.) Depending on the… Read More
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Study in the USA – All You Need to Know About F-1 Student Visa
Anyone who wants to study full time in the United States but holds a non-U.S. passport will need a student visa. (The Visa Waiver Program is only applicable to citizens or nationals of participating countries who travel to the United States for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less.) Depending on the… Read More
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University of Minnesota Student-Led Food Pantry Plants Organic Garden
According to the 2015 Boynton Student Health Survey, about 10.2% of University of Minnesota students reported that, within the past 12 months, they had run out of food and didn’t have the money to buy more food. Over the same period, 17.5% percent of the university’s students worried about their food running out before they… Read More
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MIT Researchers Thwart Online Identity Theft by Piggybacking onto Bitcoin
MIT researchers have designed a solution to prevent online identity theft, using bitcoin blockchain technology. The system is called Catena, and the researchers are Alin Tomescu, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the paper, and his thesis advisor Srini Devadas, the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering… Read More
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Shades of Harry Potter: University of Surrey Professor Wins Award to Develop Paper That Can Interact with Readers
Anyone who’s watched a Harry Potter movie can immediately recall scenes where portraits hung on the walls of Hogwarts started talking and moving around. Yes, that’s just a movie, but it will happen in real life if Professor David Frohlich has anything to do with it. Frohlich is the director of Digital World Research Center… Read More
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Temple University Helps the Cause of Sustainability with Surplus Program
In 2014, Americans generated about 258 million tons of municipal solid waste, which is defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to exclude industrial, hazardous and construction waste. That translates to each person producing 4.4 pounds of trash per day. That’s a lot of trash! More than half of the trash generated is either incinerated… Read More
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MIT Researchers Invent New Method to Purify Wastewater
Imagine there’s an inexpensive way to purify wastewater that does not involve the use of chemicals? Well, researchers at MIT have now developed a new process to remove pollutants from water, which could have far-reaching impact by making wastewater treatment more affordable and, therefore, more accessible worldwide. The waste of wastewater The theme for… Read More
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Moving Out of Campus: Sustainable Ways to Reduce Waste by Universities
The average college student discards 640 pounds of waste annually, with the bulk of the waste generated in May and June when students move out of campus at the end of a school year. Instead of taking their belongings — clothes, books, foods and even furniture — back with them, many students simply throw away… Read More
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Top 8 Ways to Market to College Students in 2021
*Updated January 29, 2021 Advertisers have always struggled to reach college students. Between their hectic schedules and a multitude of interests, today’s college students are harder to reach than ever. Here are eight proven methods to reach them, whether your ad budgets are big or small. 1. Targeted Facebook A few decades ago, the expression… Read More
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How to Find Internships
*Updated December 2, 2021 If you are a college student looking for internships, check out the job board at The University Network (TUN). Like all our other products, TUN’s job engine is wholly dedicated to college students who are still in school, so we concentrate only on placing students as interns (paid and unpaid), part-timers,… Read More
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How to Find Interns
Employers looking to hire interns can do it all online these days. Technology has made hiring so much simpler today, but you still need to be smart about it to find the right candidate(s). Helpful Hint: For a successful hiring campaign, you should first iron out the details of your open internship position and come… Read More
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University Of Kentucky Campus Kitchen’s Fight Against Hunger Beefed Up by Student’s Research
Hunger is a continuing problem in the U.S. that remains largely hidden, even though over 42 million Americans suffer from it. While 1 in 8 Americans go hungry, 60 million tons of produce worth $160 billion pounds are discarded annually in the U.S. What a waste! The reason for such waste sounds ludicrous, but it… Read More
