Close your eyes and imagine you’re a refugee. Your home — what you’ve known as a safe, familiar place — is no longer safe anymore. You will face violence and persecution if you don’t leave soon. When you finally make that tough decision to uproot your life, you arrive in an unknown place, burdened with […]
When we think of the word “science,” memories of baking soda and vinegar volcanoes quickly come to mind. The volcano’s eruption is an acid-based reaction, whereby its two ingredients combine to yield carbon dioxide as one of its products. However, did you know this reaction is also used to keep cakes from going flat? Mohammed […]
Admit it — you want to know what the food science major is about, mostly because it has the word “food” in it. It turns out that this major, as well as agribusiness management, goes beyond the surface of simply researching food. These programs cover topics like the physical and chemical properties of food, the […]
After a long week of classes, it’s hard to be motivated enough to even heat up a frozen dinner, let alone go to the store to buy it. When the prices are soaring at Whole Foods and the self-checkout lanes are overflowing at Meijer, it might be time to reevaluate where you’re shopping. Horrocks Market […]
Many of us hear “journalism” and picture a writer armed with a notepad, eager to report on the latest scoop. However, what it means to be a journalist these days has been radically altered by the Internet -— now anyone can be a journalist. Journalism students across campus are starting to drop their pen and […]