Hoxton Farms raises £2.7M seed to produce animal fat without animals". This project will cultivate animal fat and solve an urgent issue for the rapidly growing meat alternatives marketRead More
Scholarship for a PhD student to conduct research in the field of chemical engineering, computational fluid dynamics and heterogeneous chemical kinetics. Postgraduate research scholarship conditions The Scholarship will provide a stipend allowance equivalent to the University of Sydney’s Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend rate (indexed on 1 January each year) for up to 3 years, […]Read More
A national fight to restore the balance between rival academic disciplines and give back lost weight to subjects such as history, foreign languages, geography, and English literature, is to start this week with the unveiling of Shape, a “re-branding” drive to promote the humanities and social sciences. A campaign to re-brand soft academic subjects The […]Read More
Concordia University Chicago became the latest university to cut back its academic offerings, when earlier this week, it confirmed it would close 15 academic programs due to the budgetary impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to the program cuts, the University is planning to reduce its workforce by 51 faculty and staff members, according to reporting […]Read More
University students are getting bad habits during pandemic. A new study from the University of Saskatchewan, however, shows in COVID-19 “isolation”, students’ diets and activity levels have gotten worse, while drinking is on the rise. The study of bad habits during pandemic The study looked at 125 undergraduate and graduate students from the universities of Saskatchewan and […]Read More
Harvard’s Undergraduate Council launched a petition Tuesday calling on the College to strengthen support for international students during the spring semester. The petition requests the College extend the petition deadline for students to decide whether to return to campus for the spring semester, require professors to allow a 12-hour window for international students to submit […]Read More
During the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic, some 22 million U.S. workers lost their jobs. In response to these record-breaking numbers, many White House officials promised that a swift “V-shaped” recovery would occur once the pandemic was under control. Since then, many have returned to work, but there are still 10 million fewer U.S. jobs than before […]Read More
Canada has updated its list of approved Designated Learning Institutions (DLIs) that are currently permitted to welcome international students during the COVID-19 pandemic. A DLI is a school, university or college that is allowed to host international students. Canada had previously introduced travel restrictions on non-essential travel to curb the spread of COVID-19. Travel restrictions […]Read More
As highlighted in your recent editorial, more than a half million college dreams delayed is an astounding price to pay because of the pandemic. But there’s another hidden cost to this crisis: the college-to-career transition. Even before COVID-19, college graduates from low-income households earned 66 cents on the dollar compared to wealthier peers. Now, an […]Read More
Student reporters have been on the frontlines of COVID-19 news coverage at their universities. This year, many of them broke stories about the spread of the new coronavirus on school grounds. They also brought attention to how university leaders dealt with the pandemic. Many students working for college newspapers have had to work in virtual […]Read More
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