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Byline: Josh Fischman There are two things Clint McElroy knows about community-college students: A huge number of them don't stay in school. And many of them -- who are often [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman Las Cruces, N.M. -- Adding zest to vanilla ice cream was not tops in the minds of the first New Mexicans to raise chile peppers, back in [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman The relationship between humans and chimpanzees, thought to be pretty close in evolutionary terms, now comes down to a number: 510. Those are the genetic elements, in [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman College technology went on the move in the 2010-11 academic year, venturing into mobile platforms like smartphones and tablets such as the iPad. The devices were used [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman Great academic workplaces are filled with people who believe that their jobs are important to the college, that the institution is important to the community, and that [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman Philadelphia -- He was locked in a van in England with violent criminals, repeatedly, during his late 20s, says Adrian Raine, lifting a fork of salmon ravioli [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman At Arizona State University, a high-tech teaching tool with roots in the pre-Internet 1950s has created a bit of a buzz. 'I think it's going to be [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman Washington -- Brain surgery for severe depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Tourette's syndrome offers new forms of relief for desperate patients. But professors from several universities who are [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman Tallahassee, Fla. -- The name of the Fusion Cafe refers to its menu, where cucumber kimchi can be eaten along with fried catfish. But at one table [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman Doing work that makes a difference, offering jobs that fit the individual and show flexibility, and creating a high degree of pride in an institution all show [...]

Byline: Josh Fischman People have changed the planet's climate, warming the atmosphere by churning out greenhouse gases. But that process didn't start during the Industrial Revolution. It began thousands of [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN and JEFFREY R. YOUNG Orlando, Fla. -- This year's Educause conference was as big as ever, despite a bad economy that is starting to have an impact [...]

Byline: RICHARD BYRNE and JOSH FISCHMAN EVOLVING DOOR: Yale University has elevated the dean of Yale College, Peter Salovey, to the vacant post of university provost. He will assume the [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN The Graduate Junction 'does not aim to be a social-networking site,' says Mr. Colgate, a graduate student in chemistry at the University of Durham, in Britain. It [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN The chief information officer at a college or university is a key position, says Mr. Brown, who may be forgiven a slight bias: He is the CIO [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN, SCOTT CARLSON, and JEFFREY R. YOUNG Tampa, Fla. -- Technology decisions should not be made solely in some geeky corner of the campus. These days technology should [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN and ELIZABETH F. FARRELL People who survived the gunman's rampage at Northern Illinois University are not the only ones at risk for psychological trauma in the months [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN The rabbit ran down the hole in Orlando, Fla., as Alice looked on. A moment later, the animal reappeared -- in Waterloo, Ontario. The act occurred in [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN This is one odd couple at a scientific meeting: David Baltimore and Margaret Thatcher. But the liberal Nobel Prize-winning biologist, a former president of the California Institute [...]

Byline: JOSH FISCHMAN Some colleges are giving up on providing their own e-mail, opting instead for popular services like Microsoft Live@edu or Google Apps Education Edition. Mr. Bielec, chief information [...]