In early 2005, Emily Owens was halfway through her Ph.D. thesis in economics at the University of Maryland. Her topic: the deterrence effect of long prison sentences. She had just received data from ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – A Virginia Tech professor is changing the way coding looks, using video games to teach kids as young as elementary school how to code. Most school-aged children don't have the first ...

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