Vir Das, a name synonymous with sharp wit and insightful humour, often leaves people chuckling with his social media posts. Vir Das recalled how an IIT grad and a laid-off scientist from India, now working as a chauffeur in the US, had a sadness in his smile. I try to speak to people I find abroad in Hindi, it’s like …
Liang Jiangbo at Tsinghua University. Thirty-nine-year-old Liang Jiangbo, who became the first blind person to earn a postgraduate degree from Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University last month, said he plans to devote himself to helping more disabled people better integrate into society. "It was my dream school when I was a child, and my work experiences — editing and proofreading Braille …
USC did not inform students that many components of the online master’s of social work degree are outsourced to a for-profit education company, a lawsuit alleges. USC falsely marketed an online social-work degree program as equal to its respected on-campus offering, using it as a “cash cow” to lure in students unaware of the difference, a class-action lawsuit filed Thursday …
CNN — Superworms that convert plastic into organic matter, an earring that monitors diabetes, and an alternative to Styrofoam made of durian fruit. These are three of the 100 ideas being showcased in Global Grad Show, billed as the world’s most diverse gathering of graduate design projects that provide solutions to social and environmental issues. “The diversity of the community …
