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Students confront substance dependency

When Fred forced himself ... Even with the University’s support networks, the stigma attached to drug dependency prevents some students from seeking help. Fred decided to seek out on-campus resources ... read more

Tamas Aczel: A Writer Who Inspired Me By Okey Ndibe

One of the special joys of my time in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts ... A year or two before I became his student, Aczel had published what proved to be his last novel, The Hunt. ... read more

The New Science of Exercise

After working out every morning and doing 200 push-ups, he runs three miles to his lab at McMaster University in Ontario ... Tarnopolsky has published some of those papers himself. In 2011, he and a t... read more

A Father’s Story: An Elegy for Andre Dubus

I spread out in the grass and watched trainers lead blind students forward ... and falling on its trunk.” On the man himself: “I actually can’t remember meeting Andre until after the accident, though ... read more

Disability History Month

His portrait hangs ... fellow students come to me for advice about anything from anxiety and stress management to relationships — you name it. I enjoy being able to help people. I’m a figurative fount... read more

Anti-smoking drug linked to suicide

Mr Hirst, a first-year student at Nottingham Trent University ... himself" and suffered bouts of depression. He took the drug for a week and then stopped. Six months later, in May 2001 he was found ha... read more

I Wish That We Could Both Be There

In contrast, the red-haired boy’s freckled face is a picture of perpetual anxiety ... students. This is a radical change from how kids got to school in the 1970s, when the home-to-school commute was a... read more

Wade Redden: An intimate portrait

In Hillmond, a full portrait of the suited-up Ottawa Senators defenceman hangs ... born five years after sister Niki, a physiotherapist, and not quite a year behind brother Bart, a mechanical engineer... read more

Depression and Anxiety in Graduate School

According to this new survey, depression and anxiety are far more common among graduate students than in the general population ... another familiar figure is the person who’s been hanging around for ... read more

Sussex student's friends desperately tried to contact him unaware he was dead in his room, inquest hears

A student's body went undiscovered in his university digs for more than two days as his flatmates frantically tried to contact him. University of Sussex undergraduate Morgan ... who saw their friend h... read more

How Helicoptered Kids Become Hypersensitive College Students

That’s why schools are embracing “trigger warnings,” which are placed at the top of readings that might trigger flashbacks to some unpleasant episode in a student’s life. Some Harvard University ... o... read more

From the belly of the beast

After apprenticing in the family ... spending most of his time sitting in on lectures at the University of Berlin and carousing with a group of radicals known as the Young Hegelians. Horrified by his ... read more