During football and basketball games, BTN LiveBIG will spotlight notable examples of research, innovation and community service from around the conference. In-Game stories will provide more background on these features, and the opportunity to view the videos again. Beneath the waves of Lake Michigan lurks a blood-sucking invader, the dreaded sea lamprey. This aquatic vampire, […]
You?re walking to a class on a Tuesday morning, distracted as you read through last night?s text messages, when you unexpectedly trip over an object laying on the sidewalk. You get up and turn around to see what it was and are shocked to discover a human arm. You take a step back and look […]
[btn-post-package]The histories of African-Americans and the universities of the Big Ten have intertwined for decades, centuries even. And they continue to move forward together, blazing new trails in areas ranging from the social sciences to social equality. In honor of Black History Month, we?re looking back at some of the stories we?ve told about how […]
College basketball is in full swing, and in just a few weeks, we?ll be talking about seeds, bubbles and Cinderellas. But there?s another tournament that kicks off sooner: Student Startup Madness (SSM). [btn-post-package]This tournament features 64 startup ?teams? created by students from 38 public and private colleges and universities across the country. And the Big […]
If someone asked you about the first thing that comes to mind when you think of inspirational art in Paris, your mind would probably turn to some grand, well-known example. The Mona Lisa, perhaps, or one of the many other paintings or sculptures in the Louvre. Or maybe you?d conjure up a mental image of […]
[btn-post-package]When we say the students, faculty and staff, and alumni of the universities of the Big Ten Conference "live big," we aren?t overstating our case. Last year, we reported stories that took our readers from exotic locales like Sri Lanka and Uganda to galaxies far, far away. Whether it?s on-campus or in outer space, the Big […]