College Online Cources

Summer internship time is approaching. Any college student worth his/her salt is shoving down thoughts of freedom and beaches and all the beautiful things summer break used to mean, and is working any angle he/she can think of in order to land a sweet summer internship gig. Seriously, no one has a summer job delivering pizza any more. There seems to be some theory in the offing that insists theres a direct correlation between ones future trajectory and ones summer break activities.

Lindsey Pollak has some advice about how to turn an internship into a job, and Hack College has a new and improved way to . Get to it, people, or youll be looking at a lifetime of trying to survive on minimum wage and the tipping kindness of strangers.

TOLEDO — Two middle school students are in big trouble Tuesday after they were caught last week with a kill list of teachers and students.

Toledo Public Schools officials say the two East Broadway students have been removed from the school.

A teacher found the two girls with the list on April 11. The so-called kill list named 10 students and teachers.

TPS says it doesn’t take these kinds of threats lightly. The district would not say if the girls were suspended or expelled but it does not believe they had any intention of acting on the threat.

David Reznick, a professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research.

With his election as a member of the academy, Reznick joins some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts. Members contribute to studies at the academy of science and technology policy, global security, social policy and American institutions, the humanities, and education.

A total of 212 new members – 196 fellows and 16 foreign honorary members – were elected to the academy this year. Among the 2011 class of scholars, scientists, writers, artists, civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders are winners of the Nobel, Pulitzer, and Pritzker Prizes; the Turing Award; MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; and Kennedy Center Honors, Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy awards.

The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 1, Read more…

Theron Harrison as a Manual freshman

I started the day with a daunting task: Picking up Teague and Theron at 4:30 a.m. for a 7:00 a.m. flight to New York. To my surprise they sauntered out of the door ready to go, bags in hand. They were wearing jackets that depicted the New York skyline, which were bought months ago when they declared that they were going to make it to New York city to compete in the nationals.

And here we were taking the early morning trip towards that reality!

After a smooth flight, which was Theron’s first ever, we landed and I had the privilege of witnessing two amazing teens take it all in, and make sense of all the madness. The taxi cab drive was exactly what you would see in a movie: fast, furious, and daring. We ventured deep into the city of towering buildings and arrived at the Hilton, just a few blocks away from Central Park, Rockefeller Plaza, and Time Square.

After checking in, we hit the streets and had Philly cheese steaks from a street vendor, and it was then that I saw the power of this experience begin to hit us all. S

Read more…

John Hawkins, a paleoanthropologist and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, criticized the repeated headline of “gay caveman” in various media outlets and argued that the skeleton that was found was neither – gay nor caveman.

In his blog, he said that while the burial position of the prehistoric skeleton reported last Tuesday was unusual, it is virtually impossible to tell if the person was a homosexual by examining the skeleton.

Kristina Killgrove, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, also questioned the logic of even applying the modern term “gay” to describe the ancient remains in her blog, Bone Girl.

The subject of Hawkins’ and Killgrove’s diatribes is the reported discovery of a male during an archaeological dig in the Czech Republic. Archaeologist Katerina Semradova told reporters that her team had possibly found “one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a ‘transsexual’ or ‘third gender grave’” buried in a Prague suburb. She was referring

Read more…