Thirty years ago, two Hungarian educators, László and Klara Polgár, decided to challenge the popular assumption that women don’t succeed in areas requiring spatial thinking, such as chess. They wanted ...

For more than 30 years, The Ledger has honored the top scholar-athletes in Polk County and continues that tradition this year with an impressive list of 124 athletes who excelled in the classroom.

Larger tech companies are retrenching their hiring.  Funding for AI startups is rising. More graduates are calling themselves ...

Academics there noted that the number of first-year students entering with maths skills below high-school level had increased ...

For his work on AlphaFold, Jumper shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Demis Hassabis and scientist David Baker. John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, is leaving Google DeepMind to ...

Open details for Brown brings students together in creative, unexpected ways. Following the senseless act of violence on our campus on December 13, 2025, the Brown community began the difficult work ...

After selecting the founders, CEOs, investors, and other change-makers who comprise the 2026 Tech Power Players list, the Globe asked each of them to answer a question: What’s the most promising thing ...

High school students accepted into the Medical STEP at Jacobs School of Medicine, will meet at the medical campus from 10 a.m.–2:30 p.m. each scheduled Saturday during the school year for formalized ...

Editor’s Note: All biographies and lists for top 10 students are provided by the school. ROCHESTER — The following students are graduating from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School at ...

The detention center was the first new facility to open under the second Trump Administration. Protesters won’t stop until it is shut down. Under its new director, Bob’s Insane Asylum is seeking ...

AMHERST — The first Black woman to be chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court told graduates at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s 156 th undergraduate commencement on Friday ...