Fifteen University of Minnesota Crookston faculty and staff members joined a Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) cohort during the fall of 2024 as part of a year-long program designed to encourage the investigation of student learning experiences, to collect data on learning outcomes, and publish results. The cohort meets monthly under the leadership of Jeff Lindgren, Ph.D., associate director of the Center for Educational Innovation for the University of Minnesota.

CertificationPoint is a leading online work experience builder marketplace which bridges the gap by pairing college students(and trade school students) seeking to close skill gaps in a real-world project-based work environment with
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With new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, scientists in Montana State University’s Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology will seek to fill knowledge gaps surrounding an agricultural weed that has caused problems for Montana producers for decades. Jennifer Lachowiec, an associate professor in MSU’s College of Agriculture, received two grants from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture totaling more than $900,000 to study how wild oats develop herbicide resistance and to explore management techniques for the weed.

Chicago State University is transforming lives on the South Side of Chicago. The Neal-Cummings-Williams family embodies the transformative power of higher education. These five siblings are creating a legacy as they earn their degrees. This family’s story showcases CSU’s impact on local families. Rolling out spoke with this family about their experience, their legacy and why they chose Chicago State University for higher education.

The Distinguished Service Award, a prestigious honor recognizing exemplary commitment and leadership in education, was awarded to Brad Miner, superintendent of the USD 247 school district at Cherokee, and Shawn LaSota, high school English language arts and journalism teacher at USD 101 Erie.

It's always exciting when Syracuse University competes against Duke University. But, this time it wasn't on the basketball court. Three students from the Whitman School of Management traveled to the Duke campus in November to compete in the final round of the 12th Annual 2024 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition against teams from Duke; Alliance Manchester Business School from the United Kingdom; and York University and McGill University from Canada. The Orange came home with the win—and a $10,000 first place prize.

Awed as a young child by the majesty of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, civil engineer and MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Fellow Zane Schemmer has retained his fascination with bridges: what they look like, why they work, and how they're designed and built. He weighed the choice between architecture and engineering when heading off to college, but, motivated by the why and how of structural engineering, selected the latter. Now he incorporates design as an iterative process in the writing of algorithms that perfectly balance the forces involved in discrete portions of a stru

Virginia State University is proud to announce that Azurest South, also known as the Alumni House, has been designated as one of the country's newest National Historic Landmarks (NHLs). Azurest South was among 19 new NHL designations announced by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. An NHL designation is the highest federal recognition of a property's historical, architectural, or archeological significance.