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Harvard has pulled ahead of Princeton in the latest edition of the U.S. News & World Report university rankings, while a stronger emphasis on graduation rates drove other changes.

A senior on the Virginia men's lacrosse team was charged Monday with the slaying of a fellow student on the women's team, stunning ...

Some critics question a University of Minnesota Medical School decision to stop using live patients to teach med students how ...

Three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville were killed on Friday when a biology professor started shooting during a faculty meeting, police and university officials said.

Police at Northwestern University's Downtown campus placed the school's Rubloff Building on lockdown Wednesday morning after a man with a gun was spotted in an elevator of the building.

About 10 a.m. Wednesday, a man with a gun in his waistband was spotted in an eleventh floor elevator of the Rubloff Building on the Chicago campus, according to an alert issued on Northwestern's Web site. The building is located at 375 E. Chicago Ave.

Students and faculty at UCLA are stunned following a horrific attack in a campus chemistry lab in which a male student allegedly ...