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Three students from Purdue University in Indiana face felony charges for their roles in a scheme in which the students allegedly boosted their grades by breaking into professors' accounts and in some cases their offices.

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks to the Guardian newspaper have thrown back the curtain on the world of diplomatic espionage, revealing - in explicit detail - how British spies monitor enemies and allies alike.

The inaugural issue of a regular series on CM, XQs , is a conversation with the author of new and exciting works in South Asian Studies.

Q: To what extent should administrators of public universities have the right to censor student newspapers that receive funding as part of their university affiliation? Saba Hamedy, 21, senior, Boston University Hamedy is double majoring in journalism and political science.

The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to attend a free event on Tuesday, June 18 at 8:00 p.m. in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall .

Q. I inherited this bust of Louis Pasteur from my dad, who was a doctor. I remember him bringing it home in the late 1950s.

A 20-year-old Boston University sophomore and self-described "cellist-nerd" named Olivia Culpo brought the Miss Universe crown back to the United States for the first time in more than a decade when she won the televised contest Wednesday.

After failing for years to win legislative support, Gov. Deval Patrick announced in November that he would allow the children of illegal immigrants in Massachusetts to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and universities.

An athlete receiving a second concussion before fully recovering from the first falls into a dangerous category known as Secondary Impact Syndrome .

It was during the summer in Montevideo when I came to know my father - for me a half a lifetime ago.

For three engineering students, the value apparently was enough to jeopardize their academic careers and more.

Robyn Williams: Have you ever thought of taking your body back to the shop and asking for a refund? Or have you, as someone close to me has just done, spent a fortune on trying to get a bit of broken body fixed - her spine in the case.

David Freitas, of Granger, an education professor at Indiana University South Bend , has been appointed to serve on the State Board of Education.

Barry Render is Professor Emeritus, the Charles Harwood Professor of Operations Management, Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.

Season 6 of HBO's vampire drama True Blood premieres on Sunday night, presumably following up on last year's cliffhanger where the factory that produces Tru-Blood - the bottled synthetic blood that allows vampires go "vegetarian" - was burned to the ground, destroying the product that made it possible for vampires to non-violently co-exist with ... (more)

Educator Larry Rosenstock - whose multi-faceted background includes stints as a carpenter, a high school principal, an attorney, a director of documentary films and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education - has some advice for the 2013 graduates of the UC Davis School of Education: "I feel that as a country, we mispredict who can and ... (more)

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Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Students Ernesto Botello, left, and Daphne Chang, third from left, help Stephanie Anthony, second from left, Nakeisha Hill and Matthew Smith spruce up a garden at Little Rising Sun Church Center on Tuesday.

Boston University's Marsh Chapel Choir performed with the Rolling Stones for their classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that naturally occurring human genes can't be patented.