For college students who'd rather bang their heads than hit the books, New College Nottingham (England) has introduced perhaps the perfect major: the Heavy Metal Music Performance degree.The major isn't just fo...

With the rise of cable television, the era of free TV would seem to be over; but in reality, it may be beginning. While cable programming now regularly rivals or surpasses the ratings of broadcast shows, many c...

Literature aimed at young adults is getting…well, more adult. They're steamier, more frank about sexuality, and they're being snapped up by readers who are falling in love and experimenting with sex for t...

Multitasking is an unavoidable part of youth culture today. A bevy of studies show that teens and early 20-somethings juggle a variety of activities when they should be working—from watching television wh...

Forget the sold-out concerts, his top-selling albums, his nearly 40 million Twitter followers. Americans just don't like Justin Bieber. According to Public Policy Polling (which normally restricts its studies t...

Perhaps it's a good thing there are a few more jobs available for graduating college students. Many will need a good one to pay off their student loans. According to a study by Fidelity, the average college stu...

The past several years have been tough on graduating college students. While the economy has pulled out of recession, that hasn't made jobs easier to find for prospective employees relatively new to the work fo...

Show Hope's Red Bus Project set out in the spring of 2013 on their third college campus engagement campaign. Visiting more than 25 universities in the southeast and enlisting the help of thousands of volun...

Researchers have built what Chris Danforth calls "the Dow Jones index of happiness," using the frequency of key words culled from Twitter. Danforth and other researchers look at about 50 million tweets a day (a...

Teens who smoke cigarettes are far more likely—23 times more likely—to use marijuana, according to a study from Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Michigan. Those who smoked tobacco...