By Kimberly Merfert CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (mocsnews.com) – Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, college students and professors are looking for a sweet getaway location easy on the wallet and the brain as they unwind from a painstakingly abnormal school year. Suitcases await along an airport window as a plane takes off …
Read More »College Student Mental Health Crisis during the Pandemic
By: Ashtyn Frazier WASHINGTON, D.C.(mocsnews.com)- The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the mental health crisis for college students across the U.S. According to a survey by Best Colleges, 90% of students believe that they have experienced worsening mental health symptoms since the pandemic. Student doing virtual school from home. College students …
Read More »2013 Mega-study: The Cheat Sheet of Exams for Students
By KIMBERLY MERFERT High school and college students spend most of their time in school figuring out the best ways to cram eight months’ worth of education into three days of studying. After the unavoidable procrastination leaves and the sheer panic of reality sets in, students are racing against the …
Read More »Keeping an Eye on Your Mental Health This Fall Semester
By Macy Wilbanks CHATTANOOGA, Tenn (mocsnews.com) It’s not news that COVID-19 has had an exponential effect on our lives in the past year and a half. Our daily routines have been discarded and reformed to mold into a new world. The US is already starting to function again. With over 42.5% of the adult US population fully vaccinated …
Read More »Public universities and their students battle over mandates for the Covid-19 vaccine
By Stephen Lloyd Kayla Stissel, a first-year student at the University of Florida, gets her first COVID-19 vaccine from UF nursing student Taylor Collins at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville on April 5, 2021. Brad McClenny ATLANTA, GA (mocsnews.com) – As nearly half of the adult United States population …
Read More »NASA Set to Launch Two New Robotic Missions to Venus by 2028
By KIMBERLY MERFERT CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (mocsnews.com) – Over three decades after NASA sent the spacecraft Magellan into Venus’s orbit in 1989, NASA is returning to hot, humid Venus, Earth’s closest, most ignored neighbor in the solar system. During his first address to NASA employees on Wednesday, Bill Nelson, the …
Read More »Pride Parade celebrated in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (mocsnews.com)-On Thursday, thousands of people marched through Jerusalem for the annual Pride Parade. Participants march in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 3, 2021. Thousands of people marched through the streets of Jerusalem on Thursday in the city’s annual gay pride parade. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) The …
Read More »Princess Diana’s wedding dress goes on display in London.
By Jessica Coco | mocsnews.com The dress Princess Diana walked down the aisle in nearly 40 years ago is on display at the late princess’s former London home. The taffeta-ruffled white dress designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel. Its 25-foot (8 meters) sequin-encrusted train helped give the fairytale …
Read More »A Potential Normal Fall Semester
CHATTANOOGA (mocsnews.com) – The UT System is set to return to normal operations this fall, and officials have been met with varying levels of support on their method to achieve this goal. In a February 10 announcement, the UT System President Randy Boyd revealed their plan to resume “a traditional …
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