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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA  Viterbi engineer Adam Smith conducts research on wastewater treatment and resource recovery We’re running out of fresh water: Every year, around 2 million people die from a lack of safe drinking water, and it is estimated that in 15 years, half of the world’s population could be living in areas running out of potable water, according to the United Nations Environment Program.

Your choice of clothing and cosmetics can highlight your sense of style, compliment your best features, and keep you looking fresh and full of life. But sometimes these decisions can backfire: an ill-fitting dress that stretches and sags in all the wrong places, or a shade of makeup that accentuates fine lines and wrinkles. Women don't always update their fashion and beauty routines as they get older, says Los Angeles-based celebrity makeup artist Jan Ping, but they should; otherwise, the same products and pieces that once worked so well for them could suddenly give away their real age—or worse, make them look even older than they really are. Here are 18 common beauty blunders, and anti-aging advice from the pros on how to fix them.

San Diego State University's annual Diversity Awards return on Wednesday, April 29 to celebrate the campus community's commitment to diversity, inclusion and social justice. The ceremony, which runs from 3:30 to 5 p.m., will take place in Montezuma Hall in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union.

A team of University of Guelph students recently won fourth place and the admiration of their competitors at a North American agricultural marketing contest in Kansas City, Mo. Ten students in agricultural business and science (all in U of G’s Ontario Agricultural College) placed fourth out of 28 teams at the National Agri-Marketing Association student marketing competition earlier this month. The Guelph team was also voted “most favourite team” by competing teams and won an Outstanding Chapter Award.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO - Do you want to volunteer and have some fun? Join the Office of the University Secretary in celebrating the class of 2015 and assist in one or both of the graduation ceremonies. There will be two graduation ceremonies; one for graduate (Master’s and Doctor’s) degrees and one for undergraduate (Associate’s and Bachelor’s) degrees. The Graduate Ceremony will be held on Friday, May 8,  6 p.m., while the Undergraduate Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 9, 9 a.m. Both ceremonies will be held in WisePies Arena, aka The Pit. 

YALE UNIVERSITY - “Here’s you a piece of pizza” may sound like an alien way of speaking to some — unless of course you’re one of the linguists working on the Yale Grammatical Diversity Project, in which case, it’s just one of the “fascinating” variations of the English language that they look forward to studying each and every day. The project, which is currently funded by a two-year National Science Foundation grant, explores the diversity found in varieties of English spoken in North America by documenting the subtle — but systematic — differences in syntax, the study of how phrases and sentences are put together.