Science, Medicine, & Education

DETROIT — In a stunning revelation in federal court Monday, an attorney for a Detroit-area doctor charged with mutilating the genitals of young girls admitted that her client performed a procedure on the juveniles’ private parts, but maintained that it wasn’t cutting. Instead, the lawyer said Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 44, of Northville, removed the membrane

On his podcast, Nate Butkus has talked radiation with a US government scientist, evolution with a Harvard researcher, and, most recently, genome-editing with MIT’s Kevin Esvelt. But ask him his favorite moment from the 28 episodes so far, and it has to be when he belched during a taping. So it goes when the podcast

PHILADELPHIA — Student leaders of Pennsylvania State University’s fraternity system apologized to the family of Tim Piazza, the sophomore who died after pledge night in February, in an open letter released this week. “The fraternity experience failed your son,” wrote Penn State’s Interfraternity Council Executive Board, in a letter released publicly Wednesday evening. The letter

Surveillance video captured a hazing ritual at a Penn State University fraternity house where a New Jersey teen died after suffering a collapsed lung, ruptured spleen and nonrecoverable brain injury following a fall, according to a report on philly.com. Timothy Piazza, a 19-year-old from Readington Township in Hunterdon County, died on Feb. 4 following a

Penn State President Eric Barron warned Tuesday that “the end of Greek life at Penn State” was a possibility if students continue to flout rules laid out by the university in the wake of a student’s death at a fraternity house in February. Nine of the university’s 82 fraternities and sororities violated at least one

A new law that was unanimously passed in the House of Representatives last week could become the first piece of legislation in the country to prohibit the act of student “lunch shaming”. Lunch shaming is considered the practice of shaming or humiliating school children who are behind on their meal fees. Examples of this practice

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — A 9-year-old girl in a gray zip-up sweater ran to her mother in tears. “Mommy, I still have blood on my sweater,” she cried. Elisabeth Barajaz had reunited with her daughter Marissa after hearing there had been a shooting at her San Bernardino school. “The boy just walked in with the

New York will became the first state in the nation to guarantee free tuition for the middle class at public four-year college Sunday. The budget put aside $163 million dollars to pay for tuition at the state’s public universities for all families earning less than $125,000 a year. “New York is well-positioned to benefit from