Inspired by origami, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) robotics engineering researchers are developing a lightweight, flexible robotic arm that will enable a wheelchair user to safely grasp, lift, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Stop the abuse and stop these developments Re: “Boundary changed, but no new plans yet,” March 15 news story The residents of the Tri-Lakes area have reached ...

A medical student at the University of Pennsylvania is on a special mission in the research lab that could save her life. Yentli Soto Albrecht's battle is against ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative ...

Student agency is about creating the conditions where students feel a sense of ownership over their learning. In today’s post, educators offer suggestions on how teachers can help make it happen. You ...

Abstract: This work exhibits an analysis of the possibilities of using digital technologies to develop critical thinking of students in the learning process. It is shown that critical thinking ...

Abstract: University course timetabling is a NP-hard problem which is very difficult to solve by conventional methods. A highly constrained combinatorial problem, like the timetable, can be solved by ...

Days after a pipe burst at a University of Massachusetts Boston residence hall, the school said there was still no timetable for when students could move back in.On Friday, UMass Boston told students ...

The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to require public schools across the commonwealth to adopt policies prohibiting student cellphone use during the school day, according to Sen.

Much is being said about the wonders of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is the new frontier. And while it provides amazing possibilities in fields like medicine, academics are debating its ...

Tens of thousands of human-made objects orbiting the Earth could pose a risk to life, infrastructure and the environment when they fall through the atmosphere. Typically the space debris is tracked ...

As a high school teacher, you may have had the same experience as me: After asking a higher-order question of the class—for instance, “Why does Jay Gatsby really want Daisy Buchanan so badly in The ...