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Person of Interest in Yale Student's Killing Spotted in Georgia
The Massachusetts man wanted for questioning in connection to the death of a Yale graduate student was seen in Georgia on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
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Feds Say US Colleges ‘Massively' Underreport Foreign Funding
A scathing report from the Trump administration on Tuesday concluded that top U.S. universities have “massively underreported” funding they accept from China, Russia and other nations described as “foreign adversaries.”
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Feds Accuse Yale of Discriminating Against White, Asian-American Applicants
A Justice Department investigation has found Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law, officials said Thursday.
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Arrests Made After Protesters Interrupt Yale-Harvard Game
Officials say 50 people have been charged with disorderly conduct after a protest interrupted a football game between archrivals Harvard and Yale.
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NJ Teen Writes ‘#BlackLivesMatter' 100 Times on College Essay, Gets In
New Jersey teen Ziad Ahmed opted out of the traditional college essay and instead wrote “#blacklivesmatter” 100 times on his Stanford application. To his surprise, Stanford accepted.
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‘UVA Has Ruined Us': Health System Sues Thousands Of Patients, Seizing Paychecks And Claiming Homes
Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...
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Texas Says Internal Review Found No More Admissions Fraud
The University of Texas said Monday an internal review of athletics admissions after the school was snared in a national bribery scandal found no additional cases of students fraudulently awarded entry.
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Report: Yale Professor Sexually Assaulted 5 Students
An investigation has concluded that a Yale University psychiatry professor sexually assaulted five students at a research facility on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts and committed sexual misconduct against at least eight others.
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San Francisco Tattoo Artist Ed Hardy Star of New Art Exhibition
In the dense and crowded world of art, it’s difficult to imagine a single artist making as big an impact on any medium as tattoo artist Ed Hardy, who through a long and varied career, made his mark on the flesh of the art world.
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DC Program Helps Students of East African Heritage Pick and Apply for College
A program in D.C. helps immigrant high school students of East African heritage find the right college for them and fill out the best application, and it has helped more than 100 students get into some of the top schools in the country, including Harvard, Yale and MIT.
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Ex-UT at Austin Coach Admits to Taking Bribe in College Scam
The former men’s tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin admitted Wednesday to accepting a $100,000 bribe in a wide-ranging college admissions bribery scheme and has agreed to cooperate with authorities investigating the high-profile case. Michael Center, 55, is the third coach to plead guilty in the nationwide scandal that has also ensnared wealthy parents, including executives and...
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Texas Student Accepted to 15 Universities, 8 Ivy League
A Houston area student applied to 15 universities, 8 of them Ivy League schools and was accepted by all of them.
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College Cheating Scandal: 2 Ex-Admissions Officers Explain the Process Behind the Scenes
College admissions officers comb through stacks of applications, essays, GPA scores and and more to select the few students who will be accepted, and two former officers from prestigious schools told NBC News what that process looks like as it comes under scrutiny after a massive college bribery scheme was uncovered. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s former director of undergraduate...
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Poll Shows Most People Believe ‘Global Warming is Happening'
The climate change debate has been a part of politics in Washington for decades now, but polling from 2018 shows that there may be a consensus emerging from the American public. A range of surveys show more people believe it is happening and more people believe humans are responsible. If you expect those changing views to lead to action in...
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Bush Was Political Patriarch to Enduring American Dynasty
One of the nation’s dominant political dynasties, the Bushes, was defined by a summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, and a West Texas oil patch that created a mix of Yale blue-blood and back-country cowboy, and their patriarch — George H.W. Bush.
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Heisman 3: Tua Tagovailoa, Kyler Murray, Dwayne Haskins
Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa, Oklahoma’s Kyler Murray and Ohio State’s Dwayne Haskins are the finalists for the Heisman Trophy, ensuring a quarterback will win the award for the 16th time in the last 19 years.
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Text Messages Suggest Kavanaugh Wanted to Refute Accuser's Claim Before it Became Public
In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his team were communicating behind the scenes with friends to refute the claim, according to text messages obtained by NBC News. Kerry Berchem, who was at Yale with both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Deborah Ramirez, has...
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Active, Visible Gas Leak Forces Evacuation in Garland
A construction crew is being blamed for rupturing a gas main in Garland Tuesday morning.
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Police Called on Black Student Sleeping in Her Yale Dorm
A white graduate student at Yale called police on a black graduate student who had fallen asleep in a common area of their campus residence — an episode that a dean said shows the need for efforts to make the Ivy League university a more inclusive place.