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Tuition-Free Programs are Real

June 4, 2020 | Staff Writers

Along with “guilt-free desserts” and finding a coupon for something you were already going to buy, tuition-free college sound just a little too good to be true. But it’s real:...

Colleges in America and Ecuador Team Up to Study Dengue and Zika

July 14, 2020 | Staff Writers

The Eco Dess Project Has Studied One Highway’s Impact on Health in Ecuador; Now It’s Tackling Zika and Dengue. Twenty years ago, Ecuador built a new highway. The road ran...

How University of Arizona Is Solving the Food Crisis

June 4, 2020 | Staff Writers

It’s the kind of farming you see in science fiction: plants grown, not in a field, but in a series of tubes rising high into the air in an enclosed...

University of Michigan Teams Up With City of Detroit to Tackle Poverty

June 4, 2020 | Staff Writers

The Detroit Partnership on Economic Mobility—an alliance between the City of Detroit and the University of Michigan’s ambitious new initiative, Poverty Solutions—will tackle generational poverty from several angles. Created in...

Comparing the Carbon Footprint of Online vs Campus Degrees

July 14, 2020 | Staff Writers

The Common App Essay: How to Get into College With Less than 800 Words

October 20, 2020 | Staff Writers

Are you writing your Common App essay? Wondering about the Common App essay prompts? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s start with what success on the Common App essay could look like. In 2016, Brittany Stinson was accepted into five Ivy League schools—Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Dartmouth, and Cornell. These schools have less […]