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The Connection Between Collage Major and Religious Beliefs

Scientists at the University of Michigan have recently released a new research, detailing their belief on how college major options influence religious belief, and vice versa. Broadly, they have determined that those majoring in humanities and social sciences tend to become less religious than the average, whereas th...

3 August 2009
18:51 GMT

New College Drinking Prevention Methods Devised

Over the past couple of decades, researchers have been drawing attention to a very worrying trend, namely the fact that teens in college tend to drink a lot. That wouldn't be a problem in itself, if it weren't for the fact that more than 1,500 of them die in alcohol-related deaths each year, and also in acc...

15 June 2009
14:31 GMT

College Makes Interracial Friendships a Lot Easier

Going to college can be a pretty rough experience for anyone, especially when considering all the different values, beliefs, races and ethnicities that young men and women will experience over night. Making new friends is very important, especially in the first year, but a new study shows that, while White teenagers ...

29 May 2009
06:09 GMT

Students Who Use Facebook Have Lowest Grades

While the connection between using social media and having low grades in school or college has not yet been directly made, researchers conducting a new survey on social media could not help but notice that students who spent most spare time on Facebook tended to have the lowest grades of all those who were studied. T...

14 April 2009
08:47 GMT

Research Yields Darwin's College Bills

Much is known about Charles Darwin's voyages around the world, and of his work later on in life, when he wrote his famous evolution theories. However, little has been revealed thus far about his early years, especially the time when he was a student at the famed Christ's College, from 1828 to 1831. A stack ...

23 March 2009
11:54 GMT

College to Replace Employment During Crisis

University of Sheffield professor of Human Geography Danny Dorling has written in an editorial published today in the online edition of the British Medical Journal that the best option young people could consider in times of economic crisis is to attend college. In periods of mass-unemployment or when individuals get...

11 March 2009
11:57 GMT

Dell Goes Educational with Its Mobile Lineup

United States colleges and universities are reportedly adopting Dell mobile technologies for their students. According to a Dell report, a couple of higher education customers have placed massive orders for the company's notebooks, to help 115,000 students switch to mobile computing solutions.For instance, Ivy T...

17 May 2008
05:12 GMT

Hack Aftermath: Gunmen Replace Students!

Now that's really weird. I haven't heard of such a hack going on in a very, very long time. Nowadays hackers are driven by financial considerations and those that hack sites and modify them (without anything being related to money) usually do it to send out a message. That was the case of the Turkish hacker...

10 October 2007
14:36 GMT

Magna Cum Laude in Hacking

Some people after graduating from a certain college come back and do something for it, others just forget they've ever been there. But that's not the case of Luis Castillo, Alum of the Texas A&M University. After finishing college, he decided that a nice thing to do is hack into the school's computer s...

7 September 2007
04:42 GMT


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