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Eat Veggies! It Will Make You and The Earth Healthier
Eating a diet of poultry, whole grains and vegetables isn’t just beneficial to your health; it is also better for the environment! By assessing the carbon footprint of what more than 16,000 individuals consume in a day, researchers from Tulane University and the University of Michigan have found that environmentally-conscious eaters also have healthier diets.… Read More
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If You Thought Colleges Making the SAT Optional Would Level The Playing Field, Think Again
When colleges and universities began to make the SAT an optional part of the admissions process, the hope was that it would expand access to the nation’s most selective institutions to groups that had historically been shut out. The reality is – at least at selective liberal arts colleges – the decision by a growing… Read More
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Institutions Overlook Community College Transfer Students, Despite Their Success
Society favors the “classic” college experience, in which students graduate from high school and immediately move away to settle into four years of new classes, culture, friends and independence. But today, attaining the “classic” college experience isn’t as easy as it once was. Mostly due to skyrocketing tuition prices, many well-prepared students have to start… Read More
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A Teen Scientist Helped Me Discover Tons of Golf Balls Polluting the Ocean
Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse gripping a cotton swab with its tail. As a scientist researching marine plastic pollution, I thought I had seen a lot. Then, early… Read More
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Interactive Webpage Lets People Explore Their Risk of Developing a Mental Disorder
Mental illness doesn’t discriminate. It can affect children, college students, adults and the elderly. And unfortunately, after someone is diagnosed with a mental health disorder, the risk of developing another increases, a new study confirms. Although this initially comes off as bad news, the researchers were able to spin it into something positive that can… Read More
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8 Philadelphia Bands for College Music Fans to Keep an Eye on
Philly may not always have been known for its music scene, but the city has quietly grown into one of the nation’s musical centers in the past decade. Philadelphia has become a haven for musicians seeking refuge from steep rents as well as proximity to major cultural centers in nearby NYC and Boston. Known for… Read More
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More Colleges Than Ever Have Test-Optional Admissions Policies — And That’s a Good Thing
Back in the 1980s, Bates College and Bowdoin College were nearly the only liberal arts colleges not to require applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores. On Jan. 10, FairTest, a Boston-based organization that has been pushing back against America’s testing regime since 1985, announced that the number of colleges that are test-optional has… Read More
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Listening to Nature: How Sound Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change
Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical environmental signifier. Increasingly, we are learning that humans and animals are not the only organisms that use sound to communicate. So… Read More
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Can You Trust ‘Rate My Professors’?
Nearly every day, college students are faced with decisions that could change the direction of their lives. Career paths are molded by the judgments students make in college, such as choosing one professor or class over another. For help making these difficult decisions, students often turn to Rate My Professors, a popular online destination where… Read More
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Understanding Why So Few Community College Transfer Students Graduate With Bachelor’s Degree
Transfering from a community college to a senior college often comes with a unique set of challenges. More than 30 percent of U.S. students begin their post-secondary studies at a community college, and while more than eight in 10 students intend to earn a bachelor’s degree, only 17 percent will have obtained one after six… Read More
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Change Your Phone Settings so Apple, Google Can’t Track Your Movements
Technology companies have been pummeled by revelations about how poorly they protect their customers’ personal information, including an in-depth New York Times report detailing the ability of smartphone apps to track users’ locations. Some companies, most notably Apple, have begun promoting the fact that they sell products and services that safeguard consumer privacy. Smartphone users… 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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Entrepreneurism 101 — Launch Your Startup on Campus!
Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a distinctly unconventional and often irreverent approach to problem-solving. In my day-to-day interactions with our students, I find that this group doesn’t only ask “Why?” they ask “How can I fix that?” And their curiosity, independence, energy… Read More
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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
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More Solutions Needed for Campus Hunger
A new federal report does a good job of explaining what many researchers have been saying for a decade – food insecurity among college students is a serious national problem. As one University of California, Berkeley student revealed in an interview for a 2018 research article I helped write: “Food is always on my mind:… Read More
