Harvard University has granted a worldwide license to Beam Therapeutics, Inc., to develop and commercialize a suite of revolutionary DNA base editing technologies for the treatment of human disease. More...

Data from millions of Facebook users who used a popular personality app, including their answers to intimate questionnaires, was left exposed online for anyone to access, a New Scientist investigation has found. More...

BenchPrep, a comprehensive learner success platform company that enables the world's leading education, training, and assessment companies to build and deliver best-in-class online learning programs, has announced a partnership with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to deliver AAMC’s practice questions and practice tests for the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in 2019 and later. More...

Terra Dotta, the leader in higher education travel, study abroad and international program management solutions, today announced that the University of Delaware Office of International Students and Scholars (UD OISS) has successfully implemented its ISSS software (TDS) to streamline and enhance its international advising services. More...

Salem State, the most diverse public university in her home state of Massachusetts, checked both boxes. Its student body was 8 percent Hispanic, and growing, and the graduation gap between its white and Hispanic students had narrowed at the time to less than two percentage points, well below the national average of 10 percentage points. More...

Whenever a serial child molester or sex trafficker is caught, there’s a good chance the investigators were trained by the National Criminal Justice Training Center (NCJTC), based at Fox Valley Technical College in Wisconsin. More...

Unimarket, the leading provider of simple and easy-to-use software to bring all your procurement into one place, announced today that Touro College and University System (Touro), the largest private university in the U.S. with Jewish roots, recently completed implementation of Unimarket's cloud-based Source-to-Settle (S2S) solution across its five U.S. campuses, creating a shorter spend cycle and adding catalog suppliers. More...

Imagine you've spent a significant portion of your adult life, say five to eight years, working toward the career you've always wanted -- possibly even going into debt to do it, because the average wages are never sufficient to cover your cost of living. More...

Digital credentials are at the forefront of broader technological innovation in the academic sector and signal the possibility of broader cooperation between higher education and the labor market—but, as Louis Soares points out, the revolution towards a true learning economy is far from finished. More...

The University of Tennessee’s endowment has pumped millions of dollars into private investment funds in recent years, including many chartered in the Cayman Islands. More...