Category: Education
New hires for Class of 2022 college grads are soaring
Up 31.6% from last year, with many new college hires able to work remotely as employers embrace “new normal”
Striking images of solar flares that occurred over the last two days
For more on these extraordinary scientific phenomena, see the video accompanying this article.
Record-breaking astronaut Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth aboard Russian spacecraft with cosmonaut crewmembers
… at a time when political tensions between the US and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are at an all-time low
NASA’s Student Lunar Robotics Design Contest winners
Goal: design robot that can dig and move lunar soil to a holding container at a future Artemis Moon base
NASA Mega Moon Rocket arrives at launchpad, rehearsals for moon launch begin
Flight test will pave the way for missions to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon under Artemis program
Grants announced to aid Black Colleges and Universities that received bomb threats during Black History Month
Multiple Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats on the opening days of Black History Month.
Climate Change: Earth’s thawing permafrost unleashing host of environmental planetary dangers
Dangers include releasing untold quantities of greenhouse gases, microbes, chemicals, including DDT, carbons, methane, and much, much more
Female student, 14, arrested with written ‘kill list’ of eight fellow students on her phone
After a search of the child’s home, the girl’s mom was arrested on drug possession and child neglect charges
Florida Panhandle Wildfires: Homes being destroyed, hundreds forced to evacuate
At least 150 separate wildfires have decimated over 12,000 acres in Northwestern Florida; 1,100 homes under mandatory evacuation
Competency gap? Recruiters and students differ in their perceptions of new grad proficiency
employers & college students express differing opinions in terms of grads’ level of proficiency in certain competencies
