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Ruth D-Eredita, poses for a portrait outside her home in Vienna, Va., Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. D-Eredita graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1984 and last October reported that a professor sexually assaulted her when she was a sophomore in college. Universities have seen an increase in decades-old sexual misconduct complaints amid the MeToo movement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

#MeToo Inspires Wave of Old Misconduct Reports to Colleges

by Collin Binkley Associated PressOctober 14, 2018

FILE- In this April 6, 2017, file photo, Queen Latifah speaks during the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center in New York. Latifah is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Rutgers − Newark commencement ceremony on Monday, May 14, 2018. An Associated Press analysis found that two-thirds of the speakers at the nation's 25 wealthiest colleges' ceremonies in spring 2018 are women for the first time in at least two decades. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Majority of Commencement Speeches to Be Given by Women

by Collin Binkley Associated PressMay 11, 2018

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2011 file photo, actress Julianne Moore, center, named Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals woman of the year, dances in a kickline with male cast members dressed as women, on the steps of the New College Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. As the theater group prepares to honor its 2018 winners, critics have called for the troupe to start casting women in its burlesque musical productions and to update stage portrayals of women that some say are sexist. The group has had an all-male cast for more than 170 years. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

Hasty Pudding’s Act Is Getting Old

by Collin Binkley Associated PressJanuary 25, 2018

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2014 file photo, James Holleran, father of Madison Holleran, a University of Pennsylvania freshman who took her own life, talks about his daughter while sitting next to a favorite photo of her at his home in Allendale, N.J. Nearly half of the largest U.S. public universities do not track suicides among their students, despite making investments in prevention at a time of surging demand for mental health services. After her 2014 suicide, one of her former teachers in New Jersey was surprised to learn learn many universities don't report suicide statistics. (April Saul/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)

Universities Don’t Track Student Suicides

by Collin Binkley Associated PressJanuary 8, 2018

Boston College Announces $150 Million Expansion of Sciences

by Collin Binkley Associated PressNovember 5, 2017

In this Oct. 6, 2017 photo, Vick Liu unrolls his TravlerPack, a lightweight sleeping bag, outside the Kresge Auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass . Liu, a finance and political science major, created a line of lightweight sleeping bags for refugees who have few other options to keep warm during winters in the Middle East. Liu and a team of five classmates are sending sleeping bags to resettlement areas in Syria and hope to send more to refugees in Jordan and Lebanon. (AP Photo/Collin Binkley)

Students Sew Sleeping Bags for Refugees

by Collin Binkley Associated PressOctober 15, 2017

In this Sept. 27, 2017 photo, wild turkeys walk through a residential neighborhood in Brookline, Mass. Wild turkeys have bounced back in New England in what's considered a success story for wildlife restoration. But as they spread farther into urban areas, they're increasingly coming into conflict with humans who say they ravage gardens, damage cars and attack people. (AP Photo/Collin Binkley)

Birds Gone Wild: Turkeys Spar With Humans

by Collin Binkley Associated PressOctober 15, 2017

In this Aug. 25, 2017, photo, Connor Nguyen, at right, and Griffin Williams, second from right, compete in a "Super Smash Bros. Melee" tournament at the Shine eSports festival at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. Griffin, 21, is captain of an esports team at the University of California, Irvine, and Nguyen, 23, is a graduate of the school. The University of California, Irvine, is among a growing number of U.S. schools starting to offer at least partial scholarships to students who compete in esports, competitive video-game playing. (AP Photo/Collin Binkley)

Video Game ‘Athletes’ Recognized in Colleges

by Collin Binkley Associated PressSeptember 16, 2017

Joey Zeitz, 11, poses with a wax figure of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady at the Dreamland Wax Museum on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Boston. Officials at the new wax museum say they're embracing the extra attention brought by online hecklers who have lampooned some of the attraction's likenesses. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Boston Wax Museum Thrives on the Heat of Negative Reviews

by Collin Binkley Associated PressAugust 30, 2017

In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 photo, mathematics professor Moon Duchin speaks to attendees during a conference at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Lawsuits challenging voting districts have risen since a 2013 Supreme Court case made it easier to draw new districts. Duchin realized her geometry research could be used to fight gerrymandering by figuring out if new voting districts pass legal muster. She's now started a summer program to teach mathematicians how to testify in court to help illuminate the complicated topic. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Mathematics of Gerrymandering

by Collin Binkley Associated PressAugust 20, 2017