If you tried to steal a billion dollars from a bank, you would probably fail. You might even get shot for your trouble. But if you tried to steal the same amount from Medicaid, Medicare, or other ...

Now in its 113th year, Operation Santa, run by the United States Postal Service, allows children and families to send letters to Santa Claus. Those letters are posted online—personal details ...

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

After axing a wide swath of federal research projects and grants, a recent slew of awards offers a glimpse into the kinds of science the second Trump administration wants to back: in vivo cell ...

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...

With so many wild predictions flying around about the future AI, it’s important to occasionally take a step back and check in on what came true — and what hasn’t come to pass. Exactly six months ago, ...

Widely considered to be the Writer’s University, the University of Iowa announced the creation of the Office of Writing and Communication. The new office, announced in July, will absorb many of the ...

When Madison Betts ’23 first started at Drexel in 2018, she thought environmental science was her future. She’d always been interested in STEM subjects, so it was a surprise to her when, after a year ...

University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences announced the closure of the almost 40-year-long standing Iowa Summer Writing Festival and Iowa Youth Writing Project. Dean Sara Sanders ...

On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying that the program had been canceled. The annual ...

Source: Stable Diffusion, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons I love teaching writing. It's my favorite job ever. Part of the reason it's fun is that I get to teach something I'm passionate about. But that's ...