Michigan State University now offers students a minor in video games. Beginning next month, the school will offer the Specialization in Game Design and Development program to teach future video game designers.

A new study of 60 beaches in Southern California shows water pollution varies with the lunar cycle, reaching the highest levels when tides are ebbing during the New and Full Moon. These findings could change the way beach managers evaluate swimming safety.

Purdue University has bows to pressure from students who object to the university naming a building after Earl Butz, a former Agriculture Secretary under President Nixon, who resigned due to a racist joke he made at a party. The lecture hall was dedicated last October for the 96-year old for his role as a longtime Purdue faculty member, agriculture dean, and financial contributor.

Hundreds of college freshmen at a Singapore University came together for one big "blind date. " Organizers at Nanyang Technological University paired 536 people into 268 couples, who spent at least an hour together Wednesday, during a single 12-hour period, a university statement said in an AP report.

The fossil of an ancient woolly mammoth's tusk has been discovered near a dairy farm in Tulare County. According to Roger LaJeunesse, anthropology professor at California State University, the 10-foot-long tusk is estimated to be 100,000 years old.