Colleges and Universities

November 7, 2023

Conceiving the Watches of Tomorrow

Graduate students in a rare diploma program for watch design are creating timepieces for the future. It was a Monday morning in mid-September and summer vacation […]
August 24, 2023

From School Bells to Wedding Bells

Picking a wedding venue can be a daunting process. But for some couples who met as college students, marrying at their alma maters is the clear […]
August 24, 2023

From School Bells to Wedding Bells

Picking a wedding venue can be a daunting process. But for some couples who met as college students, marrying at their alma maters is the clear […]
June 17, 2023

South Asian Students Hold Fake Weddings at North American Colleges

Across North American schools, South Asian students are holding elaborately planned pretend weddings with the pomp and circumstance of real ones. Bilal Nasir rode into his […]
May 24, 2023

‘Bama Rush’ Documentary Reaction

A new documentary chronicles the TikTok-fueled phenomenon of sorority rush at the University of Alabama. Those who lived through it have thoughts. Last year, as rumors […]
May 22, 2023

The Castle Where Future Queens Drop the Royal Act

At Atlantic College, a school in a 12th-century castle clinging to the windy Welsh coastline, teenage royals take classes on world peace. The rolling green lawns […]
March 10, 2023

She’s the Very Model of a Modern Academic

The life of a scholar used to be simpler, with success or failure whittled down to an easy dictum: “Publish or perish.” Today it’s more like […]
November 27, 2022

Beauty Over Brains: Japan’s Skin-Deep University Pageants

The contests reflect a culture that often judges women by their appearance and slots them into rigid, gender-defined roles. Yuki Iozumi was fretting about how her […]
October 9, 2022

A Minecraft Player Set Out to Build the Known Universe, Block by Block

Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets. He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth. Christopher Slayton spent two months […]
August 12, 2022

‘Bama Rush’: The Sorority Drama Circling the University of Alabama

Paranoia about TikTok and rumors of a secret documentary swirl around sorority rush week at the University of Alabama. TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — When Marina Anderson was […]