Faculty writing has never been more crucial. In an era of heightened competition for grants, promotion pressures and demands for public engagement, writing is the vehicle through which faculty share ...

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

In research conducted by Madigan et al. (2019), involving 2,441 children aged 24, 36, and 60 months (50.2 percent boys and 49.8 percent girls), the study reported that “[a]pproximately 98% of US ...

David Brito is a postdoctoral researcher at the ABC CoLAB – Ageing Better and Algarve Biomedical Center Research Institute (ABC-RI) and, an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine and ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Despite its looming closure, the Iowa Youth Writing Project's fall slate is shaping up to be one of the most vibrant. In August, the University of Iowa's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced ...

The University of Arizona is terminating its Writing Skills Improvement Program, a move that closes the door for students to receive instruction from specialists with professional degrees in writing, ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...