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6 ways recent college graduates can enhance their online job search

Written by Jason Eckert, Executive Director of Career Services, University of Dayton

Very few job applications get a positive response.Maskot/Getty Images

When recent or soon-to-be college graduates begin to seek employment, many inevitably turn to job-search and networking platforms on the internet.

The platforms include some that are college-based – such as Handshake, Symplicity GradLeaders and 12twenty – as well as...

80% of fatal e-scooter crashes involve cars – new study reveals where and why most collisions occur

Written by Christopher R. Cherry, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee

Electric scooters have become a popular way to get around since their introduction to U.S. cities about three years ago. But fatalities are mounting. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

About 30 people in the United States have been killed riding electric scooters since 2018. Most – 80% – were hit by drivers of cars.

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As extreme fires transform Alaska's boreal forest, deciduous trees put a brake on carbon loss and how fast the forest burns

Written by Jill Johnstone, Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Saskatchewan

A helicopter drops water on a forest fire in Alaska.Michael Risinger/U.S. Army National Guard, CC BY

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been burning more frequently and severely in these...

Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?

Written by Chris Robinson, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Florida

COVID-19 survivors face not only physical symptoms. A large study recently showed that their mental health is affected, too. FG Trade/Getty Images

One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly referred to as COVID-19 long-haulers, suffered from neurologic or psychiatric disability six months after infection, a recent landmark study of...

French row over mosque isn't simply about state financing – it runs deep into Islamophobia and French secularism

Written by Carol Ferrara, Assistant Professor, Emerson College

The storm over the construction of the grand mosque in Strasbourg has been long brewing.Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images

Among the anti-Muslim slogans discovered sprayed across an Islamic community center in western France on the morning of April 11, 2021, was a reference to a mosque that hasn’t even finished being built yet.

“EELV...

How Baptists hold differing views on the resurrection of Christ and why this matters

Written by Jason Oliver Evans, Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, University of Virginia

Resurrection of Christ depicted in 14th-century fresco in Chora Church, Istanbul, Turkey.LP7/Collections E+ via Getty Images

Early on April 4 morning, the following message appeared on the Twitter account of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the newly elected U.S. senator from Georgia: “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the...

What former foster children went through when the COVID-19 pandemic closed college campuses

Written by Saralyn Ruff, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco

Some college students have no home to return to.Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

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In the first two months of the pandemic, more than half of former foster children lost their jobs and nearly 40% experienced precarious living situations or homelessless,...

Scientists are on a path to sequencing 1 million human genomes and use big data to unlock genetic secrets

Written by Xavier Bofill De Ros, Research Fellow in RNA biology, National Institutes of Health

A complete human genome, seen here in pairs of chromosomes, offers a wealth of information, but it is hard connect genetics to traits or disease.HYanWong/Wikimedia Comons

The first draft of the human genome was published 20 years ago in 2001, took nearly three years and cost between US$500 million and $1 billion. The Human Genome Project has...

Why Wall Street investors' trading California water futures is nothing to fear – and unlikely to work anyway

Written by Ellen Bruno, Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist, University of California, Berkeley

Futures won't affect whether there's water in the hose.Bettmann/Getty Images

Water is one of the world’s most vital resources.

So is there reason to freak out now that profit-hungry hedge funds and other investors can trade it like a barrel of oil or shares of Apple?

That’s exactly what CME Group recently did in California when it...

Nearly 60 million Americans don't drink their tap water, research suggests – here's why that's a public health problem

Written by Asher Rosinger, Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Anthropology, and Demography. Director, Water, Health, and Nutrition Laboratory, Penn State

Thirsty?deepblue4you/E+ via Getty Images

Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It might make you think twice about whether to drink your tap water or serve it to your kids – especially if you also have experienced tap water problems in the past.

In a new study, my...