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Purdue prof Adriana Harmeyer wins 7th ‘Jeopardy!’ game; winnings total $155,700

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Despite a slow-burn start to Thursday night’s game, “Jeopardy!” champion Adriana Harmeyer rose to the top once again, bringing her seven-day winnings to $155,700. Before the first commercial break, Harmeyer, a clinical assistant professor and archivist for University History in Purdue’s Archives and Special Collections, briefly found herself in the negative […]

Harvard board votes to block 13 sanctioned protesters from graduating, risks ‘faculty rebellion,’ says prof

The governing board of Harvard University on Wednesday rejected an effort by faculty to confer degrees on protesters sanctioned because they participated in an anti-Israel encampment on campus. The Harvard Crimson called the move “unprecedented” and reported that tensions between the Harvard Corporation and the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) are high since […]

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Prof Peter Higgs dies aged 94

The scientist behind the concept of the subatomic particle the Higgs boson, Professor Peter Higgs, has died aged 94. Professor Higgs predicted of the existence of a new particle – the so-called Higgs boson – in 1964. The particle’s existence would not be confirmed for almost half a century, with experiments at the Large Hadron […]