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Harvard University - Matthew Weiner is a talker. He admits it. In answering questions — about his writing process, about the hit AMC drama he created, “Mad Men,” which will end its seven-season run next month — his mind meanders away from simple truths, often to a story and a place in the past where the writer and director felt shunned and downtrodden, not unlike his show’s protagonist, Don Draper.

This baby panther thinks you deserve a high five for all your hard work this academic year. Good job, FIT family.

Appalachian State University Gamma Iota Sigma team wins the 2015 Spencer Risk Management Society (RIMS) Challenge in New Orleans.

More than 1,600 students are expected to walk across the stage at the spring 2015 commencement ceremonies at New Mexico State University Saturday, May 9, at the Pan American Center. Activities will begin Friday, May 8, the first-ever doctoral hooding ceremony at 7 p.m. in the Pan American Center. Sixty-one candidates are expected to participate in the ceremony.

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY -- A model of a malaria-infected red blood cell may lead to better ways to treat malaria, according to a team of engineers and molecular biologists who investigated how this parasite infection causes the red blood cells to stiffen. Normal red blood cells are about 8 microns in size, but can circulate in the microvascular system with a diameter of 1 to 2 microns because they are flexible, deformable and durable.  Cells infected with the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the most virulent form of malaria parasite, become stiff and sticky and become lodged in small blood vessels while the parasite is developing and so avoid the filtering action of the spleen. "The malaria community knew about the fact that red blood cells get stiff and sticky when they are infected, " said Sulin Zhang, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, Penn State.  "They were also fairly certain why it becomes so sticky, but they are not certain why it ...

Katharine Hale. George Mason University's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)- Congratulations to Katharine Hale for her selection to the prestigious Apple Distinguished Educators Class of 2015. Ms. Hale, a fifth grade teacher at Abingdon Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, is graduating in May with a master's degree from the   Integration of Online Learning in Schools program , part of the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Her primary professors are  Priscilla Norton   and   Dawn Hathaway   in the Learning Technologies division.

Four doctors from the University of Texas Medical Branch landed in Nepal minutes before the earthquake hit Saturday. The doctors were on a medical mission trip. According to a press release from UTMB, the trip was intended as "one part personal challenge, one part medical mission." "The journey will last nearly three weeks and encompass 12 days of trekking along a route to Mount Everest," the UTMB release said. "The team hopes to run ENT clinics at various locations, including at Everest Base Camp."

Bianca Hernandez conducted psychology research on bullying Freshman Katie Denius explains her research on macular degeneration to interested students at the 2015 Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day More than 350 students participated in the 2015 Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day and Community Engagement Showcase in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the NIU Holmes Student Center STEM Divas work on making lip gloss at an event in March 2015 Student research, artistry and engagement celebrated at NIU event Northern Illinois University educators often refer to the world as a learning lab where students and academics are connected through research and engagement. This connection between students, faculty and the world happens every day at NIU and is celebrated each year at the university’s Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day(URAD) and Community Engagement Showcase (CES), which took place Tuesday, April 21, at the Holmes Student Center. ...