by Sarah Green | Jan 25, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
It’s a fact of childhood; kids get sick more than adults. Their immune systems haven’t encountered as many pathogens yet, and they have fewer resources to fight them. So for parents of school children, it can seem like their kids are always waking up with fevers,...
by Sarah Green | Jan 6, 2017 | News, Student Issues
2016 was a year that opened many white people’s eyes to the realities of racism in the United States. Eastern Michigan University has decided to learn from that and make concrete steps to address the issue. Working with black student leaders, they are implementing and...
by Sarah Green | Dec 23, 2016 | News
Dialysis centers are often usually chilly places, and while they often make an attempt at Christmas cheer, it’s not somewhere that anyone wants to be. This might be particularly true in the center at the Veterans Home of Collins in Collins, Missouri. But Tuesday,...
by Sarah Green | Dec 19, 2016 | Parent Issues, Student Issues
Letting kids win at games might actually be bad for them. According to new research from Amherst College, rigging a game so that young children always win prevents them from developing the skills necessary to formulate judgments about those skills. Essentially, if...
by Sarah Green | Dec 14, 2016 | News, Student Issues
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) affect about 1 percent of the world’s population, and they are caused by a variety of genetic mutations. One of those mutations has now been singled out, and the autism caused by that gene may well be reversible. The mechanical way in...
