Highlights from BYU Colleges: Professors study internet trolls, engineering classes receive real-world curriculum

Highlights from BYU Colleges: Professors study internet trolls, engineering classes receive real-world curriculum

College of Fine Arts and Communications Research from BYU professors Pamela Brubaker and Scott Church found that individuals who exhibit dark triad personality traits and derive enjoyment from others’ misfortune were likely to engage in trolling behaviors online. (Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo) The word “trolls” no longer only means the green, lumpy and grumpy mythological character.

Here’s why it may be time for much-maligned home economics classes to make a comeback

Here’s why it may be time for much-maligned home economics classes to make a comeback

The oft-misunderstood field spans science and nutrition and promotes that cooking and cleaning is undervalued as a form of labor. Home economics has been a “back door for women to enter science” that turned into an “empire of jobs and influence,” Danielle Dreilinger writes in “The Secret History of Home Economics.” Home economists can be