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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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Tieyuan Zhu, (left), and Eugene Morgan of Pennsylvania State University are part of a research team studying carbon storage. They are pictured here with a model that helps explain how carbon dioxide moves through rock underground.
(Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

At Penn State, researchers push for answers on carbon capture: Will it stay where we put it?

Technology is seen as key to lessening the effects of climate change.

7 years ago

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos attends an event at the White House. (Cheriss May/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Department of Education to refund, forgive $150M in student loan debt

The U.S. Department of Education is sending emails to about 15,000 people who took out loans for colleges that shut down between Nov. 1, 2013, and Dec. 4, 2018.

7 years ago

Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses members of the University of Delaware Board of Trustees after an announcement was made that UD's school of public policy will be renamed in his honor Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (Saquan Stimpson/for WHYY)
Education

University of Delaware names public policy school after Joe Biden

University President Dennis Assanis salutes the former vice president's role in bringing the school added prominence.

7 years ago

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A woman walks past a Wells Fargo location in view of City Hall, left, in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017.
Education

Wells Fargo tops government report on fees paid by students

Wells Fargo charges students the most in fees on average to have a bank account, according to a government report.

7 years ago

A second grade class in Newark, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Money

Rutgers researcher finds no evidence N.J. superintendent salary cap saved school districts money

The New Jersey superintendent salary cap instead resulted in a higher probability that superintendents across the state would quit.

7 years ago

Kim Cooney, director of student success at Chestnut Hill College, meets with senior Erin Crowley. After changing her major, she took extra classes so she could graduate on time. Chestnut Hill started a program this year to get more students to choose a major by sophomore year. (Saquan Stimpson for The Hechinger Report)
Education

The high cost of switching college majors

One national survey of freshmen found that about 9 percent were undecided; after they’ve picked a major, one third change their minds at least once.

7 years ago

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Princeton University's Blair Tower photographed from above (Alan Tu/WHYY)
NPR
Education

Top colleges seeking diversity from a new source: Transfer students

When applying to many of the nation's top universities, if you aren't accepted in that first round of admissions, you're not likely to get in. Some are trying to change that.

7 years ago

Currently students of color are underrepresented in medical schools, but their numbers are slowly growing. (Getty Images)
NPR
Science

A push for diversity in medical school is slowly paying off

In 2012, the percentage of female and black students starting medical school began a steady, albeit slow, increase.

7 years ago

Marc Lamont Hill
Politics & Policy

CNN fires Temple professor Marc Lamont Hill as analyst after UN speech on Israel and Palestine

The network did not give a reason, but the move comes amid objections to Hill's speech by the Anti-Defamation League and other groups.

7 years ago

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Shown is the Schuylkill River and view of the Philadelphia skyline, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Money

New Philly program aims to get ‘eds and meds’ to buy locally

The effort brings together Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce and the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia, along with 20 founding partners and supporting organizations.

7 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Iconic Manhattan sculpture finds a new home in Collegeville, Pa.

An icon of bustling Rockefeller Center in NYC, the sculpture "Cubed Curve" is now on the leafy campus of Ursinus College.

7 years ago

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Rhodes scholar, Anea B. Moore (Eric Sucar/University Communications, University of Pennsylvania)
Radio Times
Education

Philadelphia’s Rhodes Scholar Anea B. Moore

Guest: Anea B. Moore

7 years ago

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Tianjin, in northern China, is home to Tianjin University, an international research center that recently hired an American to lead its school of pharmaceutical science and technology. He recruits students from all over the world, he says, and the program's classes are taught in English. (Prisma Bildagentur/UIG/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

China expands research funding, luring U.S. scientists and students

7 years ago

Lock Haven University will launch a pilot pet-friendly program in January when the spring semester begins. (Courtesy of Lock Haven University)
Education

Creature comfort: Lock Haven in Pa. opens dorm to pets, helping students de-stress

Lock Haven University will launch a pilot pet-friendly program in January when the spring semester begins.

7 years ago

An aerial view of the Cheyney University campus. (Courtesy of Cheyney University)
Education

Cheyney University’s accreditation extended for a year

Cheyney University’s accreditation has been extended for another year under probationary status, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education announced Tuesday.

7 years ago

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