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In an apartment complex just outside the western edge of the University of Colorado's flagship campus, a 22-year-old psychology major named Zach has just leaned over an expensive oil rig [...]

The gray matter of the nucleus accumbens, the walnut-shaped pleasure center of the brain, was glowing like a flame, showing a notable increase in density. ''It could mean that there's [...]

One sign of spring: older folks whizzing around campus in golf carts. Reunion season kicks in on the heels of commencement (and again at homecoming), and somebody has to drive [...]

ON any given Saturday, Central Connecticut State University is nearly empty. No Frisbee flinging, no lingering over lattes at Jazzman's Cafe and Bakery. The library closes at 3:45, the cafeteria [...]

MARGARET KING of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia. In the South, where sororities have [...]

MARGARET KING of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia. In the South, where sororities have [...]

IN their undergrad uniforms of fleece and sweats, a clutch of Rutgers students gathered on the worn red couches of their dorm's common room and told their stories. A good-looking, [...]

City Bench, a company that turns distressed urban trees into furniture, is opening a New Haven showroom on Friday as part of Project Storefronts, a municipal effort to fill vacant [...]

DAN SULLIVAN, a junior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, notices the warning signs now, even during finals when most everyone seems stressed. ''I can tell the difference between someone tired who [...]

IMalive.org, a new crisis intervention help line, hopes to reach troubled young people where they feel most comfortable -- in virtual chats. Case in point: distressed college students who first [...]

BRYANT University in Rhode Island recently unveiled its latest acquisition -- a $1,500 Gemstone bingo console, with black light -- christened by its president, with some 400 students in attendance. [...]

CHANTELLE WELP and Colin Sorensen grew up together in Greeley, Colo. They despised each other in middle school, became friends junior year of high school and, in a twist of [...]

EXTRA time. More breaks. A small, quiet room. Seeking such accommodations on entrance exams can be a journey of angst for students with learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. [...]

SINCE the very first bunk bed, roommates have annoyed each other. They leave their clothes all over the floor; they host overnight guests unannounced. Big deal. You tell them to [...]

FIRST-YEAR roommates matter. Though they may go their separate ways sophomore year, their reach can ripple throughout the college years and after. ''No one forgets their college roommate,'' says Allison [...]

AS he worked on a documentary about children with autism, Eric Solomon wanted its opening sequence to have an impact similar to the start of 'Saving Private Ryan,' he said: […]

VALERIE KAPLAN has an aptitude for math, and scored a perfect 1600 on her SAT. When her high school classmates applauded the announcement at lunch, she was pleased. But less [...]

FOR generations, college-bound students in the South have made the trip that some know as the I-85 crawl, visiting colleges along the interstate from the heart of North Carolina into […]

'I've seen kids swearing in class,' Magaly Toledo, a Hartford Public High School freshman, said one day after school. The teachers, she said, don't do anything. 'Sometimes they just look […]

''GO, Franklin,'' cheered the Simsbury High School girls, dazzling in sophisticated dresses and sparkly earrings. Franklin Villafane, 16, an East Hartford High School student with a glittering earring of his [...]

ARTHUR MILLER, an African-American deacon from Hartford, delivered an urgent message at a recent Saturday Mass at St. Mary's Church in Simsbury, a wealthy, mostly white community. Help stop the […]

CURIOUS about the salsa music coming from his school cafeteria one afternoon, Barry Blackson of East Hartford, an aspiring hip-hop artist at 17, slipped inside and unexpectedly entered the world […]

I'M bringing a sleeping bag and two outfits, my Carhartt overalls, shorts and a hoodie, and my toothbrush,' said Diana Silvestri, 19, a University of Hartford sophomore from New Fairfield, […]

Reprimands did not work. Neither did detentions or suspensions. Frustrated over their inability to stop high school students from cursing aggressively, educators and police officials decided it was time to […]

IT is a blistering week in July, and thousands of girls and scores of college coaches pour into Love Point Park in Stevensville, Md., for the annual All Star Express. […]

THIS fall at Avon Old Farms, a prestigious boys' prep school in Connecticut, 16 percent of the freshmen are transfer students doing the year for the second time. They include […]

WHAT the cafeteria at William H. Hall High School in West Hartford is serving for lunch is not much of a concern to Michelle Fechtor, 16, a junior there. She […]

DISCERNING gifted children, long an imperfect science, is even tougher in today's label-prone culture. James T. Webb, a clinical psychologist and author of 'Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children […]

AT 40, Kim Alberico of Cromwell has been a Red Sox fan 'forever.' But buying good, affordable tickets to Fenway Park, home of the 2004 World Series champion Sox, is […]

LAST summer, Brad Glas, captain of the Hellcat II, a 114-foot fishing-party boat out of Groton, was about to head home through the Race, the challenging current-driven nexus of Long […]

WHILE the rest of the nation's motorists fret about gas prices, a small group of drivers at Trinity College in Hartford have nary a worry. A fleet of vehicles powered […]

DURING his American history class in Meriden, Xavier Santos learned a lesson he did not expect: Slavery had once been a vital and enduring part of Connecticut. 'I didn't think […]

AFTER a year in Iraq with the Army National Guard, Maj. Donald Slater, the principal of William H. Hall High School in West Hartford, returned to a hero's welcome on […]

'IT feels like you're gliding. It feels like you're floating,' said Jeff Dugas, 41, who was snowboarding with his son, Jordan, 10, on a recent Sunday at Ski Sundown in […]

LIKE many students enjoying the newfound freedom of college, the young man accelerated the drinking he had begun at prep school. 'You go nuts,' he explains, looking back, seemingly both […]

LIKE many Connecticut residents facing the flu season without a flu vaccination, Gary Craig, a D.J. at WTIC-FM, was worried about getting sick. 'I was too young and too old,' […]

ON a sparkling, cold November morning at White Memorial Foundation, a 4,000-acre wildlife sanctuary nestled in Litchfield, in the foothills of the Berkshires, a group of seventh graders were bounding […]

AS the holiday shopping season takes off, the malls, of course, will be packed. But if some towns have their way, those shoppers will instead be walking around their downtowns, […]

THE top reason successful applicants to the University of Connecticut decline to attend, according to a recent university survey, is because there 'is nothing to do at Storrs.' But that […]

THE slogan of the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association could be: license plates, a hobby that can last a lifetime. It seemed that way, at least, during the association's recent […]

AT last, the Windsor Locks birthplace of Ella T. Grasso, Connecticut's first female governor, has a new owner. The subject of a recent foreclosure auction, the Grasso home was in […]

WHEN Gary Burghoff -- the future actor, artist and wildlife advocate -- was five, he liberated a few geese from a neighboring farm in Bristol. 'I had a hell of […]

THE recent auction in Windsor Locks of the birthplace of Ella T. Grasso, Connecticut's first female governor, took an unlikely turn, when the winning bidder said she was confused about […]

JOSHUA WAITZMAN, a sophomore at Brown University, recalls the nasty competition as students scratched their way up in class rank at William H. Hall High School here. Two friends come […]

THIS summer, Kyle Mencel is keeping busy at the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport cleaning cages, amusing the sometimes bored goats and turkey vultures, and feeding Petunia and Daisy, two Tamworth […]

KATHY NIEBUHR, a Greenwich substance-abuse counselor, has heard all the stories. One seventh grade boy told her how he regularly climbed out of a window at night with a bottle […]

GRADE inflation seems to be reaching record levels at the nation's high schools, according to a new survey of incoming freshmen at more than 400 colleges and universities. Almost half […]

IT is 7 a.m. on a Friday at the Bishop's Corner Starbucks in West Hartford, and despite the early hour and subzero temperatures outside, it is an oasis of warmth […]

'IT'S incredible. It's fabulous. It's stressful, and some days I just want to tear my hair out. Why can't I save every one?' said Sonia Pascal, who at 18 recently […]

SOME 14 years ago, Andrea Leibman by her own admission was living a life of dull domesticity. 'I was a mom with a minivan and two kids,' said Mrs. Leibman […]