Check, Please
I love you Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea, as you begin the second phase of your life, outside of the public eye, I think you should consider moving in with me. Yeah I know I’m no Joe Lockhart, but I am kind, caring, thoughtful and if you want to do it with secret service agents in the [...]
Keep Olympic integrity
Andreea Raducan, a 16-year-old Romainian gymnast was forced to give up her all-around gold medal in Athens Tuesday after testing positive for a drug on the International Olympic Committee’s list of banned stimulants. The banned drug, doephedrine, was contained in Nurofen, an over the counter medicine that the gymnast took for flu symptoms. Raducan’s ingestion [...]
Notes belong online
In California this week a bill was passed outlawing the commercial sale of lecture notes taken in any California private, public or community college. This mainly targets those online services that post a paid student notetaker’s notes on the Web for all of the students in the class to utilize come crunch time. Bills like [...]
Terriers to face Catamounts
The Boston University field hockey team is well aware of the fact that the University of Vermont, this afternoon’s opponent, is in the midst of a three-game winning streak. After starting the season winless in their first four games, the Catamounts have roared back in a fury, spearheaded by freshman midfielder Whitney Gage. Gage, who [...]
BU climbing the ranks in America East
For the first time since the beginning of the regular season, the Boston University women’s soccer team finds itself in an unfamiliar position. They are now the team to beat in the America East conference. With wins last weekend against Drexel University and Hofstra University, the Terriers have soared to the top of the conference [...]
Academia
- BU to offer MOOCs after joining online course platform edX
- Student success linked to motivation, study suggests
- Profs. say say education, media could combat Islamic stereotypes
- AP courses not indicative of collegiate success, study suggests
- Profs. find freshmen unprepared for workload, study suggests
Science & Technology
- Ultraviolet rays may cause premature skin aging, BUSM research finds
- Protesters oppose biolab as court proceedings continue
- IBM officials partner with Boston, BU to grow ‘smarter city’
- BUSM researchers address diabetic neuropathies with therapy
- Online courses may lead to lower grades than traditional courses, study suggests
