Janet W. Lee

Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A Relationship Behind Bars," is about her father's incarceration.

NPR's national podcasting contest for college students is now open for entries. Submit for a chance to win the $5,000 grand prize. Deadline is January 10.

The middle school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge tells how her golden retriever, Lopez, changed her life.

For the first time this year, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge handed the mic over to fourth graders. Here's two of our judges' favorite entries.

In its sixth year, our contest handed over the mic to fourth graders for the very first time. We received nearly 2,000 entries from all around the country — and we've narrowed it down to 10 middle school and 10 high school finalists.

A new report finds college enrollment numbers, which plummeted during the pandemic, are slowly but steadily ticking back up.

This year's winning entry is an emotional account of living with schizoaffective disorder, from a student at Miami Dade College.

May 1 is a traditional decision day for many high school seniors to pick their college. But this year's trouble with the federal financial aid form has thrown that process into turmoil.

Moving can be very stressful. NPR's Life Kit talks with experts about ways to overcome some of that stress by making friends in a new place.

Columbia University officials answered lawmaker questions about antisemitism on campus. But Wednesday's hearing played out very differently from the 2023 hearing that grabbed so many headlines.