Contact: Erin FlynnJune 10, 2022 Matt Collins, an interior design student from Mendon, Michigan, was lead designer for the new MJ Home store in downtown Kalamazoo. KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A new business has sprouted up in downtown Kalamazoo, and a Western Michigan University student helped to cultivate its aesthetic. “We want people […]
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Mining valuable insights from diamonds | MIT News
If Changhao Li were to trace the origins of his love of nature, he would point to the time when he was 9, observing the night sky from his childhood home in the small town of Jinan, China. “At that moment I felt that nature is so beautiful, I just […]
EU clinches world first deal on single mobile charging port | Technology News
Move means most mobile phones, tablets and cameras will be required to have a USB Type-C charging port from late 2024. European Union member states and legislators have agreed to mandate a single mobile charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras in a blow to technology giant Apple. Tuesday’s […]
Finland’s big new export to India: Education | Business and Economy News
Bengaluru, India– Playdough is not a common mathematics teaching aid. But at Jain Heritage School in the upmarket neighbourhood of Whitefield in Bengaluru, India’s tech capital, it is among the options that primary school teachers use to make numbers fun. Instead of learning by rote, children are encouraged to shape […]
Living better with algorithms | MIT News
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) student Sarah Cen remembers the lecture that sent her down the track to an upstream question. At a talk on ethical artificial intelligence, the speaker brought up a variation on the famous trolley problem, which outlines a philosophical choice between two undesirable outcomes. […]
‘It’s Going To Be Catastrophic’: Schools Brace for Crisis Over Meal Programs | Education News
When Penny Parham, the food and nutrition officer for Miami-Dade Public Schools, began courting bids for its main food distribution service – the one that provides groceries on a weekly basis so that the fourth-largest school district in the country can serve upward of 35 million meals each year – […]
College Enrollment Declines Are Here to Stay | Education News
Enrollment in colleges and universities fell across the U.S. this spring, worsening an ongoing crisis that many had thought would show signs of rebound by now. “College enrollment declines appear to be worsening,” said Doug Shapiro, executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which released its latest enrollment […]
MIT engineers introduce the Oreometer | MIT News
When you twist open an Oreo cookie to get to the creamy center, you’re mimicking a standard test in rheology — the study of how a non-Newtonian material flows when twisted, pressed, or otherwise stressed. MIT engineers have now subjected the sandwich cookie to rigorous materials tests to get to […]
Happy Valley graduate will continue education at Dartmouth | News
Carter County seniors are on their way to colleges and other institutes of higher learning all across the land, but few will be going as far as Happy Valley High School’s Zachary Stephens. He’s leaving the green hills of Happy Valley for the green river valley of Dartmouth. While Dartmouth’s […]
Fashion’s big night – VCU News
By Jayla McNeill VCU School of the Arts In a night of celebration and camaraderie, the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts Department of Fashion Design + Merchandising last week held its first in-person fashion event since 2019. The fashion show, #PROCESS2022, showcased the hard work, talent and […]