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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock's MidSOUTH Training Academy and the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS), Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS), celebrated the grand opening of the Child Welfare Learning Lab August 19, an initiative marking a new chapter in preparing Arkansas child welfare professionals to better serve children and families statewide.
"She's your mom." "They're your family." "Blood is thicker than water." For generations, these familiar idioms have illustrated what Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith, co-authors of the 2022 book "Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents" (NYU Press), term compulsory kinship: the social expectation that biological and legal family ties must be preserved at all costs. In…
Driven by one of the most engaged student bodies in the nation, American University climbed 13 spots to No. 2 for Most Politically Active Students in The Princeton Review's 2027 edition of The Best 392 Colleges, released August 18.
For Jada Harris, a work-study gig during her freshman year at Rutgers University-New Brunswick turned out to be more than just a part-time job: It became a learning experience to build job skills that she will be able to use in any career path she takes.
Thinkers from Plato to Maria Montessori have championed play as one of the most powerful ways that young children learn and grow. American preschool teachers overwhelmingly agree -- but a new study finds that teachers in urban settings feel less family support for play-based learning than their suburban counterparts.
More than half of the students in the University of Northern Colorado's inaugural College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNC COM) class are Colorado residents, with nearly half coming from smaller com...
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Rutgers researchers found that over 90% of nearly 250,000 comments on proposed rules were form letters, and nearly half the letters contained industry content.
When Nialys Suarez was a senior at Audubon Technology & Communication High School in Milwaukee, she set foot in the school only twice that entire year.
We routinely toss plastic bottles and containers in the recycling bin, but many other kinds of plastic instead go in the trash because there's no easy way to recycle them. UWM's Office of Sustainability has launched a program to help solve this problem.
Is the U.S. Constitution in crisis? Beginning Sept. 2, University of Colorado Law School professors will explore that question during a five-week Mini Law School series examining some of the constitutional and legal questions at the center of public debate today.
As artificial intelligence tools evolve at a rapid pace, an Iowa State computer science professor and her students are developing a public website that tracks new AI releases and helps users make sense of the fast-changing technology.
Study examines how social roles emerge and remain stable, how the prefrontal cortex represents leading, following, and a partner's position, and what happens to teamwork when that region is switched off. A companion AI model inferred the values guiding each animal's choices.
The Great Plains Art Museum will host artist Elizabeth Burden as the 2026 Elizabeth Rubendall Artist in Residence Sept. 1-12. During her residency, Burden will create an artwork that will become pa
Discussion panel on best practices for reporter boot camps, in-person visits, and science communications training programs.
Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) announced an agreement that deepens their partnership as the two organizations prepare to welcome the Sundance Film Festival to its new home in Boulder Jan. 21-31, 2027.
The University of West Florida Police Department will host the inaugural Leaders in Service Summit on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, at the UWF Conference Center on the University's Pensacola campus. This...
