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Energy drinks may pose potential dangers
The popularity of energy drinks such as Monster or Red Bull has grown extensively on college campuses and among younger people over the past decade; walk through the library and you will see green Monster M’s peppering the desks and tables, beacons of frantic studiers hammering away at their ...
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Universities nationwide see increase in incoming students who don’t drink
Although rampant alcohol consumption has become a stereotype commonly associated with typical college life, a growing number of teetotaling students nationwide are challenging those perceptions.
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Study probes Confederate flag
Newly published research suggests that exposure to the Confederate flag, prominently displayed by millions of Americans 150 years after the Civil War may, in fact, evoke anti-black sentiments among whites, regardless of their reported racial beliefs.
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Survey reveals new look at family
For IU sociologist Brian Powell, what started out as surveys to collect national data sets turned into a revealing study on Americans’ views of family and same-sex relations.
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Study shows men more likely to forgive homosexual infidelities
Being cheated on in a relationship is no fun, but some cheating may be worse depending on gender, according to research from the University of Texas at Austin. Men were more likely to stay in a relationship with a woman who slept with another woman than if she had slept with a man.
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Boise State researcher gets dinosaur named after her
Boise State postdoctoral researcher Celina Suarez is one of only a handful of people in history to have her name attached to a dinosaur. Geminiraptor suarezarum, a raptor-like species that walked the Earth about 125 million years ago, was discovered by Suarez and her identical twin Marina.
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Students may not be totally prepared for the workplace
Nothing is more terrifying for most students than putting in four years of hard work, countless hours of studying, and thousands of dollars into a college education, just to find out that it might have been for nothing.
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Study: Emotional health of freshman at all-time low
The emotional health of 2010 freshmen college students has dropped to its lowest level since the survey began 25 years ago, according to the annual Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshman Survey.
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Obama plans new energy efficiency initiative
For President Barack Obama, a researcher in an on-campus lab is just as important as the starting quarterback in Beaver Stadium. “Penn State is a place that knows a little bit about playing to win.
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