Why are California birds getting bigger?
Alfred Hitchcock would have appreciated this twist: The birds in central California are getting bigger.
Alfred Hitchcock would have appreciated this twist: The birds in central California are getting bigger.
Ecology
Nov 11, 2011
17
0
Students' high school grade point averages are five times stronger than their ACT scores at predicting college graduation, according to a new study published today in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the ...
Education
Jan 28, 2020
1
379
Graduation rates for low-achieving minority students and girls have fallen nearly 20 percentage points since California implemented a law requiring high school students to pass exit exams in order to graduate, according to ...
Other
Apr 22, 2009
0
0
A college student working at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History was lead author on the first formal survey of praying mantises in Rwanda, which revealed a 155 percent increase in praying mantis species diversity for ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2015
0
36
Leo Shmuylovich knows a lot about how tutoring can take a student from confused to confident. The Washington University graduate student has worked as a tutor for several test preparatory companies over the years, helping ...
Other
Feb 12, 2010
2
0
(Phys.org) —Researchers have demonstrated a method for "temporal cloaking" of optical communications, representing a potential tool to thwart would-be eavesdroppers and improve security for telecommunications.
General Physics
Jun 5, 2013
2
0
In his January 2009 State of the Union address, President Obama announced his goal for the U.S. to lead the world in college graduates by 2020. While policymakers often blame university systems for low graduation among college ...
Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2013
0
0
The maker of an application that would alert iPhone users to US military drone strikes said Thursday that Apple has repeatedly shot down his efforts to get it into the App Store.
Software
Aug 30, 2012
12
0
In 1968, San Francisco State University activists made history by organizing the longest student-led strike in the U.S. What did they want? Curricula that represent people of color.
Social Sciences
Dec 23, 2020
2
15
Increasing diversity remains a key priority at universities, especially in the wake of mass demonstrations in support of racial equality in 2020 following the death of George Floyd. Many universities are guided by the motivation ...
Social Sciences
Apr 12, 2021
16
138