education

Graduate student advocacy groups were central to designing the program, which provides a semester of funding if a trainee needs time to find a new mentor.

An interactive online forum keeps Indian kids busy with science while they are stuck indoors during the pandemic.

Many US educational institutions, from preschools to universities, are opening this fall in the midst of a global pandemic that threatens much more than our health.

The school requires each student, faculty, and staff member to be tested twice per week and sends the results straight to their cell phones.

Following a string of outbreaks, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will move to an online-only semester.

Some in-person instruction will be required to maintain a student visa, and universities must tell the US government of their plans to open by July 15.

Life sciences professors and other staff make contingency plans for more coronavirus-related disruptions in the coming school year.

In the face of campus closures around the world, scientific laboratories are offering tours via video. We asked experts for their tips.

Here’s how some researchers and educators are giving prospective students and the public a window into their labs.

The public university system in California joins a number of colleges planning a virtual semester to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19.

School shutdowns might have a relatively small effect on preventing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, a new meta-analysis suggests, though the preliminary data point to the need for more studies.

Here are the lessons we’ve learned so far about the keys to virtual science education—including what to do about lab classes.

Dozens of schools across 11 states have announced emergency policies to help curb the spread of COVID-19.

The US Department of Education is looking into allegations that the institutions failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts from other countries.

The students’ union and the university could not reach an agreement on salary, health benefits, and harassment protections.

Plagiarism and bribery are commonplace, they say, and they’ve begun calling out lapses in scientific integrity.

Regional differences in wealth in the UK are tied to genetic variants related to education—and migration is only widening the gap.

Our survey of seminars in biology and chemistry shows that women ask fewer questions than men. We propose ways to change that.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2019 issue of The Scientist.