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  • Students raising hands
    With the help of a smartphone and Twitter, university collaborators show kids how Shakespeare instructs us on school bullyingThe University of Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô is pursuing a more-civil society with this simple recipe: Take one Shakespearean play, one group
  • Tim Seastedt
    As startling claims about knapweed’s virulence are retracted, Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô researchers show that weed-eating bugs can help control invasive species without herbicides.
  • Clouds over the ocean
    Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô team finds first conclusive evidence of climate-relevant gases over the remote Pacific Ocean, but why those gases exist where they do is a mystery.
  • People sitting in a living room
    Conventional wisdom suggests that average citizens hate politics, balk at voting even in presidential-election years and are, incidentally, woefully ill-informed. A new study by a team of researchers that includes a Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô professor refutes that notion.
  • Various students in the classroom
    As the ‘gathering storm’ in science and math education approaches ‘Category 5’ and imperils American competitiveness, Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô students rush inRyan O’Block had been considering a career in K-12 teaching since high school, but when he signed up to become
  • Lake
    But is NASA’s finding truly a previously undiscovered form of ‘weird life’ on Earth? Many scientists, including some noted experts at Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô, have doubtsThe New York Times, NASA and the prestigious journal Science announced startling news recently.
  • Computer screen
    People have been interested in personality and language for a long time, but it’s really hard to get somebody to sit down and write 100,000 words. The nice thing about bloggers is they write a lot.
  • Genders on a teeter totter
    ‘Surprising’ finding: spending 15 minutes, twice a semester, writing about music, family or other things women value helps them perform better in introductory courses
  • Stack of textbooks
    With a mixture of art, science and inspiration, stellar Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô teachers in classics, physics and philosophy embody the harmony of research and teaching, and their examples add context to the national discourse on ‘academic efficiency’
  • Pregnant teen standing against a wall
    When Stefanie Mollborn asks her students how many teen-agers will get pregnant, they guess low. That’s because in college students’ circles, teen pregnancy is rare. Only 2 percent of teen mothers later earn a college degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.
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