By Luc Cohen and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) -A U.S. medical professor has been charged with fraud for allegedly submitting false data to get millions of dollars in public funds for research into a drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Federal prosecutors said on Friday that Hoau-Yan Wang, 67, fabricated data included in grant applications to the […]
The US should re-examine its “dangerous” democracy-versus-authoritarianism framing of its rivalry with China because it risks nudging Beijing closer to Moscow and Pyongyang, according to a leading Chinese academic. Li Cheng, professor of political science at the University of Hong Kong’s Centre on Contemporary China and the World, told a forum in the northeastern city […]
The man charged with the murder of a University of Arizona professor in Tucson was on Monday sentenced to life in prison. Murad Dervish, 48, was found guilty of first-degree murder after he shot Thomas Meixner, the head of the university’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, on Oct. 5, 2022. On May 21, a […]
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A former University of Arizona graduate student convicted of fatally shooting a hydrology professor on campus months after he was expelled could be facing a life prison term when he’s sentenced Monday. A Pima County Superior Court jury last month found Murad Dervish guilty of first-degree murder in the death of […]
It may soon become unbearable to teach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I fear that day has already arrived, though desperately hope I am wrong. The latest disturbing news is that the university secretly records professors while they teach. A university media relations official confirmed it to Inside Higher Ed. Issac […]
A former CNN anchor and a retired chemistry professor are facing off in a Democratic primary to pick a challenger to U.S. Rep. Nick LaLota in an eastern Long Island congressional district that has been in Republican hands for a decade. John Avlon, who was a senior political analyst at CNN, is running against Nancy […]
According to U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, we’re in the throes of a loneliness epidemic. In a recent interview, Murthy noted that one in two American adults experience “measurable levels of loneliness,” while “the numbers are even higher among young people.” In addition to the mental health consequences associated with a lack of connection […]
The Columbia University task force on campus antisemitism has reported a string of disturbing incidents at the Ivy League university, exposing what it characterized as the “harassment of Jewish students” and antisemitic remarks made by professors – including one who reportedly told his class to avoid the mainstream media because “it is owned by Jews.” […]
Allan Saxe, the eccentric former political science professor at UT-Arlington who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars from his modest earnings to dozens of humanitarian causes, has died at 85. While he is remembered by generations of college students for his passion in the classroom, stirring debates and challenging them to think differently about politics […]
A university professor was jailed Tuesday in Estonia after being found guilty of spying for Russia. Viacheslav Morozov, a Russian citizen, taught at the Baltic country’s most prestigious university and was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for collecting information about Estonia’s defense and security policy and the people and infrastructure related […]
The University of Minnesota paused the hiring of a professor who wrote that Israel’s military operation against Hamas in Gaza after Oct. 7 was “a textbook case of genocide” to head the school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), Jewish Insider has learned. The pause, which has not yet been publicly announced by the […]
CHICAGO (AP) — DePaul University said it dismissed a part-time biology instructor after she gave an optional assignment related to the Israel-Hamas war. Anne d’Aquino told students in May that they could write about the impact of “genocide in Gaza on human health and biology.” The theme of the spring class at the Chicago school […]