Lena Geller, a freshman at GW started Lena’s Lunchbox, a dessert and cake decorating company, her freshman year of high school. Now, she faces some challenges of baking in the dorm. Read more »
The NEST360˚ initiative at Rice University is a finalist for the $100 million MacArthur Fellowship, which enhance the program to save the lives of more infants. Read more »
A student-run organization at the University of Georgia took over eight parking lot spots and transformed them into a green park as part of the worldwide “PARK(ing) Day” initiative. Read more »
For this Ivy League student, switching from logic to creativity made school a positive experience. Read more »
In an effort to engage student body community, especially among transfer students, Penn State University began a service organization: Start F.R.E.S.H. Now, the program has over 600 volunteers for this year and is touching on a variety of social issues and concerns. Read more »
Treadway and his mother, Cathy Clark, set up a fundraising campaign to move north. They were evicted on Aug. 19 with no place to stay except overcrowded homeless shelters in a small city wedged between Tampa and Orlando. Read more »
As a person of color, Kaya Thomas felt growing up that she was not represented in books she was reading. Now a senior at Dartmouth, she's helping kids connect to characters of color. Read more »
A new $181 million arts center and “untraditional” record label signify a dedication to the arts while Trump pulls away from them. Read more »
A professor of biology at Emory University goes on three-to-four mile runs with students every week for his "active" office hours. Read more »
The college is in the middle of transitioning from No. 6 fuel oil to a 100 percent purified waste vegetable oil to heat its campus and is the first college to do so in the country. Read more »
Brown University is providing free tampons and pads in campus bathrooms. Read more »
Oakland University students created an "Ask a Muslim" panel to help combat Islamophobia and Muslim stereotypes. Read more »
Two students at Georgetown University have made it their agenda to create a central hub for all things related to urban culture with their website, Nous Culture. Read more »
The course is online, so the students can learn the subject matter from the comfort of their own beds. Read more »
Matthew White, a professor of physics at the University of Vermont, has dedicated 12 years of scientific research to solar cells. Read more »
AutoDietary, a necklace-like device, measures the caloric intake of users. Read more »
The University of Iowa is striving to address challenges by hiring professors from diverse disciplines to work together in team-based atmospheres. Read more »
Students at Santa Clara University in California have been participating in a tiny house building competition for almost two years. The final presentations will take place in October. Read more »
Students and professors at Oregon State University are studying bones of an extinct mammoth that were discovered during an expansion project of the Valley Football Center. Read more »
Four sophomore students at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering made a machine that allows any image designed on computer software to be made into a pancake. Read more »
The Orthotics and Prosthetics Club at the University of Delaware has created a new leg for a patient in need — a patient that happens to be a dog. Read more »
The Arizona State University business school has announced it will offer its incoming MBA students the opportunity to apply for full-tuition scholarships. Read more »
On Oct. 11, about 60 members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Bucknell University completed a relay run from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C. Read more »
The Board of Regents at the University of Colorado has recently voted not to divest from the school’s use of fossil fuels in a 7-2 vote. Read more »
