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At-Home Workouts to Avoid the Quarantine 15
As COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the United States, chances are your gym has closed its doors. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop exercising. Across the nation, gyms, personal trainers and workout companies and brands are posting free or discounted at-home exercise classes online, so that you can keep your blood flowing, your… Read More
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Separating Fact From Fiction – Learn the Science Behind COVID-19 With This Free Online Course
As COVID-19 sweeps the globe and upends life as we know it, some fake news about the novel coronavirus is also permeating social media news feeds. Fortunately, for those searching for evidence-based information on how to combat this pandemic, the Imperial College London’s Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA) has recently launched… Read More
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As Campuses Close, edX Expands Free Access to Online Courses
As universities around the world move classes online due to the spread of COVID-19, edX, a popular platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs), has announced a new initiative to assist in the transition to online courses. The initiative, dubbed the Remote Access Program, will allow students from participating universities to freely access courses offered… Read More
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The 6 Main Ways Colleges are Responding to Coronavirus
As COVID-19, the new coronavirus, continues to spread throughout the United States, colleges and universities are taking action to protect their students and slow down the outbreak. Although their efforts vary based on factors like location and enrollment, nearly every higher education institution, from Harvard University to Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), is… Read More
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade
Learn Something New During Your Coronavirus Break As COVID-19 spreads throughout the United States, college students around the country are being asked to return home. Over 100 colleges have already announced that they are cancelling in-person classes, and many have even closed residence halls in an attempt to contain the virus. That leaves plenty of… Read More
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Amid Coronavirus, Coursera Grants Universities Free Access
As COVID-19 sweeps across the world, colleges and universities are feeling its impact. In an effort to stem its spread, universities around the world are taking a variety of precautionary measures. For example in South Korea, where the academic year starts in early March, universities have pushed back the start date to an undetermined time… Read More
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Life on Hold – Coronavirus In South Korea
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, the sun felt too warm and the spring breeze too fresh to stay indoors. For the first time in a long time, Eunji Kim, 31, who lives in South Korea, drove in her new MINI Cooper (in pretty solaris orange) to grab a late lunch with a few friends. Before… Read More
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Students React to Campus Closures Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Amid growing concerns about the spread of COVID-19, the new coronavirus, colleges and universities across the United States are upping their precautionary measures. In addition to transitioning from in-person to online classes, an increasing number of colleges and universities are now telling students to go home. On Tuesday (March 10), Harvard University asked students not… Read More
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Meet Second Nature, the NGO Guiding Colleges to Carbon Neutrality
Colleges and universities pride themselves on being leaders in research, education and development. Their ultimate purpose is to help create a future that is brighter than the past. And today, the future faces a potentially enormous existential crisis. Decades of irresponsible energy production and consumption have caused global surface temperatures to increase, posing a threat… Read More
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How College Students Can Keep Themselves & Others Coronavirus-Free
Americans have made many efforts to slow down the nationwide spread of COVID-19, the new coronavirus sweeping across the world. Grade schools have temporarily closed their doors. Companies are increasingly asking their employees to work from home. And in highly infected areas, even storefronts have decided to shut down for the time being. Colleges and… Read More
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College Students Want Employers to Pay Off Their Loans
At this point, national student loan debt has reached more than $1.6 trillion, surpassing both credit card and auto loan debt. Roughly 70 percent of college students have to take out loans to pay for college. And after graduation, the average borrower owes nearly $30,000. This debt burden weighs heavily on recent graduates, as it… Read More
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How Colleges Are Reacting Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak
As the new strain of coronavirus, formally called COVID-19, continues to sweep across the world, American colleges and universities are taking action to protect their students and minimize the outbreak altogether. While the vast majority of campuses remain open, higher education institutions are canceling their travel programs, advising students to self-quarantine, developing precautionary plans in… Read More
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You Don’t Need to Be a Math Person to Be a Master Coder, Study Finds
It’s often assumed that to become a good coder, one needs to have a math brain, but that theory has now been debunked. New research from the University of Washington (UW) suggests that, instead, language learning skills are the strongest predictor of programming ability. “The importance of numeracy may be overestimated in modern programming education… Read More
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Quarantined and Looking for Something to Pass the Time? Why Not Help Find a Cure for Coronavirus?
The University of Washington (UW) is looking to crowdsource a cure to stop the spread of COVID-19, the highly contagious strain of coronavirus sweeping throughout the world. By way of a new online puzzle game, the university is calling on professional and citizen scientists to design a protein that could block the virus from interacting… Read More
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What Inspires Women to Pursue & Stay in Tech Careers?
More women than ever before are earning STEM degrees. But when broken down by degree type, it’s clear that women are only mass migrating to a handful of disciplines. While women have already caught up to men in biology and the social sciences, they only earn 18.7 percent of the computer science degrees awarded in… Read More
