May 3, 2016 Fine arts graduate students quit USC, protesting faculty curriculum changes The entire graduate class of 2016 at the University of Southern California's art and design school has dropped out, protesting faculty and curriculum changes.
May 3, 2016 As telescope opposition boils over, some Native Hawaiians see science education opportunity Before going up to Mauna Kea's summit on Hawaii's Big Island, Heather Kaluna makes an offering to Poliahu, the snow goddess of the mountain.
May 3, 2016 Ex-Ohio State marching band director seeks to expand lawsuit to include board of trustees Fired Ohio State marching band director Jonathan Waters alleged Wednesday that the university's board was directly involved in his dismissal and asked a judge to let him use other employment actions by the trustees in his lawsuit against the school.
May 3, 2016 National Endowment for the Arts awards $74 million in grants to groups in all 50 states The National Endowment for the Arts is awarding $74 million in grants to arts organizations in all 50 states and five U.S. territories.
May 3, 2016 Freedman and Lutvak, 'Gentleman's Guide' creators, return to their old stomping grounds A classroom door opens at New York University and a 20-something student at the piano tries to not seem flustered by the two men who have joined him.
May 3, 2016 Ohio woman gets diploma 63 years after a half-credit of gym class kept her from graduation An Ohio woman who missed graduation in 1952 because she needed a half-credit of gym class has received her high school diploma more than six decades later.
May 3, 2016 UW-Madison chemistry Ph.D. student illustrates her thesis in a comic book A former Wisconsin student says illustrating her chemistry thesis in a comic book helped her share the work with her family and friends as well as a host of others interested in accessible science.
May 3, 2016 As standardized tests move online, schools want students to know Ctrl+Alt+Del as well as 3 R's School districts across the U.S. are working to give their students command of a computer keyboard now that a majority of states are administering standardized tests online for the first time.
May 3, 2016 Died free: Revelation about slave woman's death at key Civil War battle takes center stage A cannonball that ripped through the cabin of Hannah Reynolds' master made her a footnote of misfortune, the lone civilian death at the pivotal battle of the U.S. Civil War.
May 3, 2016 Wounded as a slave, died free: Revelation about woman's death at Appomattox takes center stage A Civil War cannonball that ripped through Hannah Reynolds' master's cabin made her a footnote of misfortune, the lone civilian death at the Battle of Appomattox Court House.
