As many college students are returning home on break, parents are uniquely positioned to detect troubles with mental health ...

Anna Grosse shares how her Psychology Society has helped students feel less lonely this Christmas – and her advice for university societies who want to support their members.

The Tartan’s annual election took place late into the night on Nov. 23, and by Nov. 25, the votes had been tallied and the winners announced. The new editorial staff has a size of 20, including ...

Tracking graduates’ earnings is just one way to measure the benefit of higher education, writes Daniel V. McGehee.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The growing popularity of professional graduate degrees over the past several decades ...

The winds were blowing at 40 mph (64 km/h) across the Tacoma Narrows strait when "Galloping Gertie" began to bounce. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which connected Tacoma, Washington, with the Kitsap ...

Engineering disasters serve as tragic but crucial learning opportunities for the advancement of safety standards and design principles. This collection of 15 catastrophic failures spans nearly 150 ...

When we think of science in the World War II era, we tend to think of physics and engineering, as embodied in the Manhattan Project. But in his classic history, Psychologists on the March (1999), ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Daniel J. Riccio Jr., a former leader at Apple, has donated $50 million to the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering, marking the largest gift in the ...

In a city filled to the brim with iconic buildings of both the ancient and not-so-ancient variety, the Colosseum of Rome stands apart from the rest. The ancient stadium, an arched, elliptical arena, ...

The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. It is a story of ...