A lab technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student pleaded not guilty Tuesday during a court hearing in New Haven, Connecticut, his attorney said.

Investigators have found the knife believed to have been used in the stabbing of a University of California, Los Angeles student in a chemistry lab.

Yale University employee Raymond Clark, 24, has been taken into custody in connection with the killing of Yale student Annie Le, police said. A judge issued a search warrant for his home and a body warrant for his DNA, said James Lewis, the police chief in New Haven, Connecticut.

Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.

Three days before Annie Le is supposed to be getting married in Long Island, police, the FBI and her fiance are scouring New Haven, trying to find the missing Yale School of Medicine graduate student.

Whoever said names will never hurt you was wrong, according to a new study. The study from the University of Illinois suggests dealing with classmate put-downs can make it harder for good students to learn and make it more difficult for students who are behind to catch up.

Should parents get involved in their children’s issues? Here’s some expert advice on seven common situations, so you’ll know when to meddle and when to stay mum.

An increasing number of college students are turning to private loans—one of the riskiest ways to pay for schooling, according to an education organization that compared them to credit-card debt.

As college students across the country tuck into their first dining hall meals, thoughts of unwanted weight gain may be dancing through their heads. Here are some tips on how to avoid the dreaded “Freshman 15.“

College students aren’t generally known for healthy eating. Busy schedules and tight budgets—and sometimes a lack of knowledge about food—can result in not-the-greatest choices. Here are some tips.

A recent National Survey of Student Engagement found 70 percent of college students have frequent contact with at least one parent/guardian during the school year. 75 percent of the students reportedly followed parents’ advice regarding academic or personal issues. 25 percent of students said a parent sometimes intervened on behalf of the student to solve a problem

Recent government health surveys found 31 percent of children in the U.S. are overweight or at risk for becoming overweight. There are two main reasons for the increase in overweight children. First, children are consuming more calories. Research shows between 1989 and 1996, U.S. children consumed as many as 230 extra calories/day. The second reason for increasing weight stems from a lack of physical activity.

Seven people, at least five of them high-school students, were shot Tuesday at a bus stop in Detroit, Michigan, officials said.

A 15-year-old student is hospitalized in critical but stable condition after shooting himself in the head at a Louisiana middle school.

During the past few weeks, at least nine universities have received gifts totaling more than $45 million. And the schools had to promise not to try to find out the giver’s identity.