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Alaska Pacific University plans to cut the cost of undergraduate tuition by 34 percent, bucking a national trend of rising college costs in a bid to attract more young students to its Anchorage campus.

Boston University will join online course platform edX to create increased flexible learning options for students both on and off campus, according to a Tuesday press release.

Newspapers obstinately do little or nothing to clarify the difference between news and the opinions formed by the paper's editorial board.

Bjong Wolf Yeigh, the president of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome , has accepted the position of Chancellor of the University of Washington Bothell, effective September 1, 2013.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Spokane will have a four-year medical program with or without the help of the University of Washington, said Elson Floyd, president of Washington State University.

In keeping with the College Bound theme, fourth grade students from Raymond Elementary School visited the University of Washington on Thursday May 9th.

Montana men's basketball coach Wayne Tinkle has announced the signing of 6-foot-8 forward Martin Breunig , who is transferring from the University of Washington.

A bill to help repay school loans for health professionals who work in rural and underserved areas was signed into law today by Gov.

Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's plentiful rainfall.

The fog machine was up high and the lights were down low for Beat Connection's headlining set at Neumos on Friday night.

Students at the University of Washington want the school to dump its investments in major fossil fuel companies like Exxon and BP as part of a nationwide campaign to combat climate change through public institutions.

Before the Boston bombing - before surveillance first saved the day and then re-terrified us when a phone conversation between the bomber and his wife was revealed to have been recorded because every phone call period is being recorded by the government now - two technology artists at the University of Washington created an artwork that profiles ... (more)

Amanda Knox has revealed that she is almost broke because of her huge legal bills - despite a $1.5million book advance.

Scientists are eager for access to information from a quarter-billion-dollar lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that they hope will teach them about climate change, earthquakes and even the origins of life on Earth and other planets.

A year ago, David Ajamu wasn't getting much recruiting attention. The 6-foot-6, 240-pound senior-to-be from Shelton, Wash.

Scientists around the world will soon have access to a wealth of data from a lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Dinner still needs to be cooked and the table cleared. There are birds to be identified each day in the backyard, and there are worries, too, about weakening knees, diabetes, money and driving at night.

In the '50s, it wasn't uncommon for magazines like Seventeen to have advertisements for hope chests.

Main Category: Cholesterol Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture ; Cardiovascular / Cardiology Article Date: 18 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Academic researchers have found that breathing motor vehicle emissions triggers a change in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol , altering its cardiovascular protective qualities so that it actually ... (more)

After 34 years of working at Ketchikan's Gateway Center for Human Services, including 10 years as medical director, Wandal William Winn is calling it a day.