Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes. By Mark Arsenault Faculty members at Harvard University voted ...

I still remember sitting at my little desk as a kindergartner stacking blocks, thinking that having 12 years left in school was an eternity. As I stand on the doorstep of my high school graduation, I ...

A recent article in the journal STAT (Molteni, April 7, 2026, “A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career”) brings to light one ...

While grades keep going up, up, up in high schools and colleges, other measures of achievement are not. Teachers and faculty face pressure to keep students and families happy—and some research says ...

Average grades continue to rise in the United States, raising the question of how grade inflation impacts students. We provide comprehensive evidence on how teacher grading practices affect students' ...

Seconds after the Mountain West revealed its long-awaited media rights deal Tuesday morning — actually, it was more like nanoseconds — comparisons to the Pac-12’s media agreement commenced. Are the ...

A person’s genes play a far greater role in likely lifespan than previously thought, according to a major new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

El Monte-based technology company Fulgent Genetics Inc. agreed to acquire selected assets of Bako Diagnostics, a pathology laboratory based in Alpharetta, GA, and to acquire StrataDx, a ...

When it comes to personal growth, advice is usually handed out as one-size-fits-all. While that sounds fair in theory, it often misses the mark. Men and women face different pressures, expectations, ...

A couple with deep ties to the Chicago area is donating $11 million to Lurie Children’s Hospital in hopes of speeding research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.