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Student From CT Makes Splash On Jeopardy! College Championship Student From CT Makes Splash On Jeopardy! College Championship
Student From CT Makes Splash On Jeopardy! College Championship If the answer is Joey Kornman, the question must be: “Name that college student from Connecticut making waves on the Jeopardy! National College Championship.” Kornman, a classical studies major from West Hartford studying at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, is on to the “Jeopardy! National College Championship” semifinals after taking down two other students in the quarterfinal that aired on Wednesday, Jan. 9. Mayim Bialik with Joey Kornman in 'Jeopardy! National College Championship.Twitter/@BrandeisU Kornman won the night over Mitch Macek, a sophomore at Villanova Univer…

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by Zak Failla
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Top 3 Places You're Most Likely To Get COVID-19 Top 3 Places You're Most Likely To Get COVID-19
Top 3 Places You're Most Likely To Get Covid-19 After tracking the movements and health of residents in 57,000 U.S. neighborhoods, researchers have narrowed down the top three places where people are picking up COVID-19. Conducted by Stanford and Northwestern universities,  researchers used mobile phone location data pulled from 10 U.S. cities and found that restaurants, cafes, and gyms really are the most common places where COVID-19 has been contracted.  In efforts to tamp down on the spread of COVID-19 amid a national spike in incidents, the governor has targetted restaurants and cafes as potential hotspots instituting a 9:3…

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by Christina Coulter
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Northeast Region Well-Represented In New U.S. News & World Report Top 40 College Rankings Northeast Region Well-Represented In New U.S. News & World Report Top 40 College Rankings
Northeast Region Well-Represented In New U.S. News & World Report Top 40 College Rankings The five highest-ranked schools in U.S. News & World Report Top 40 National Universities Rankings are all in the Northeast. The top five schools of the rating consist of: Princeton University, first  Harvard University, second;  Columbia University, third; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fourth (tied); Yale University fourth (tied). These rankings, which have been published for the last 36 years, are devised using seventeen different factors, including: graduation rates retention rates after the first year of study social mobility academic reputation, per an ass…

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by Christina Coulter