Sometimes, Rhett Sewell introduces himself as Rhett with Tourette. "My name," the 20-year-old University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshman, said, "was a lovely stroke of irony. Why not use it in a ...

How many author-professors does it take to screw up a piquant literary tradition? Several generations, it seems. Seventy years ago, in March 1934, a national magazine titled College Humor -- yes, a ...

Researchers have found that students appreciate when instructors tell jokes in science class, but that female and male students differ in what topics they find funny or offensive. There's nothing like ...

When freshmen first arrived at Canada’s University of Western Ontario a few weeks ago, they were introduced not to cutting-edge research or “the best which has been thought and said” (in Matthew ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a picture in Legos might just be worth 1,001 — at least to fans of the new social media accounts created by Lego Grad Student. A self-described “hollow head ...

ROCHESTER — What’s the difference between accuracy and precision? Turns out, quite a bit — and knowing the difference is critical in high-tech manufacturing of equipment and infrastructure like modern ...

Last fall, at the start of their junior year, Teagan Nam experienced a scary situation at school. There was an anonymous tip that a student at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Md., had brought ...

What with the lingering U.S. presence in Iraq, the devastation of Katrina, and the uncertain economy, it's no surprise that some students feel troubled. The student government at Emory University is ...