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Social Networked Friendship Quality Can Be Means of Combating Loneliness
Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., with a third of Americans reporting they’ve experienced “serious loneliness” in recent years. Lonely people are twice as likely to become depressed, and loneliness is a key risk factor for self-harm and suicide, perhaps playing a...

Japanese-Language Proficiency Test Reaches All-Time High Registration for 2024
The Japanese-Language Proficiency Test will be held on Sunday, Dec. 1, in Kimpel Hall. The JLPT is organized by the Japan Foundation and Japan Educational Exchanges and Services to provide a standard by which Japanese language students can demonstrate and benchmark...

International Student Discovers Passion for Coffee Through Internship With Onyx
International student Konoka Hattori discovered her love of coffee when she volunteered at a coffee event as a high schooler in her native country of Japan. But she didn't discover she wanted to center her career around coffee until she started an internship with Onyx...

2024-25 Gosack Scholarship Recipients Named
Four graduate students in the Master of Public Administration Program have been awarded the prestigious Raymond W. Gosack Master of Public Administration Scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year: Meerim Seiitova, Kyle Morgan, Annette Nyoni and Ty Haralson. This...

Two Students Named Finalists for World-Renowned Scholarships
Hank Herzfeld, a senior Honors College Bodenhamer Fellow majoring in history and political science, was recently named a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. Isaac Hampton, a 2022 graduate of the Sam M. Walton College of Business with a Bachelor of Science in International...