An Arizona State University academic seen in viral video confronting a woman in a hijab during a pro-Israel protest near campus has been booted from the institution, ASU said this week. Jonathan Yudelman, a postdoctoral research scholar at ASU’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership who taught a pair of classes in spring, […]
AUSTIN, Texas – A college professor is facing a criminal charge and looking for a new job. The University of Texas fired him after he was arrested in connection to a pro-Palestine protest on campus last week. “He was fired, yes,” Gerry Morris, attorney representing Richard Heyman said. 57-year-old Richard Heyman worked at the University […]
Gregory Pflugfelder had just finished the final class of his career at Columbia. In 28 years at the university, he achieved many accolades as a professor of history who taught a popular course on Japanese monsters – mostly focused on Godzilla and “the role of the monstrous in the cultural imagination.” He didn’t know it, […]
The University of California, Berkeley, has opened a Title IX civil rights investigation into whether a law professor harassed a Muslim student during a dinner last month in the professor’s backyard. The investigation by the university’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination stems from an April 9 incident at the home of professor […]
A Duke University professor has won the ACM Prize in Computing for her work with algorithms. Amanda Randles creates virtual simulations that incorporate data from patients’ wearable devices. Randles is also trying to make medicine more personalized by learning how cancer cells move. Amanda Randles is shaping the future of medicine with her award-winning research. […]
A Columbia University professor tells Fox News Digital that the anti-Israel demonstrations unfolding on the Ivy League campus at the end of the day are no longer about the Jewish State or Palestinians, but about “whether mob violence can bring our great university to a halt.” Law professor Joshua Mitts spoke Tuesday after a group […]
An Emory University economics professor has been charged with battery after it appeared she was forcefully arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest on campus. A CNN video caught the moment that a woman, believed to be Caroline Fohlin, was detained by Georgia police last Thursday. She was wrestled on the ground after trying to question law […]
Tesla could be setting itself up for a new legal challenge over Elon Musk’s record compensation deal, a law professor at Tulane University warned. On Wednesday, the company urged investors to “restore Tesla’s stockholder democracy” by ratifying in June the 2018 vote that awarded Musk the largest pay package in human history after a Delaware court ruled the approval […]
Apr. 17—MOSES LAKE — Frank Zhao, a professor of plant pathology at Washington State University, spoke at the April 4 Fire Blight Webinar hosted by Michigan State University, providing an update on current research and results of fire blight antibiotics and resistances at WSU. According to WSU’s Tree Fruit website, fire blight is a disease […]
Editor’s note: This story contains information about the alleged sexual abuse of a child. If you know or suspect that anyone under 18 is being sexually or physically abused, call the Texas child abuse hotline at 1-800-252-5400. Former Abilene Christian University psychology professor Charles Wayne Wadlington, 41, of Abilene appeared in court April 11. His […]
A former Eastern Kentucky University professor who was found to have put cameras in men’s bathrooms and locker rooms was sentenced for his crimes on Tuesday. Kyle Knezevich, 36, was sentenced to just over 18 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove for attempted production of child pornography, according to the U.S. […]
Dr. Pearl Ponce, an Ithaca native, was selected to oversee national documents of immense historical value. Ponce was recently named director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, where she’ll lead the planning, directing, and administration of the library’s programming and activities starting June 2, according to a statement. The Bush Library is […]