Mississippi University for Women considers taking ‘women’ out of name
Forty years after Mississippi University for Women started enrolling men, its president says the school should consider choosing a more inclusive name. Read more
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Click chemistry pioneers win Nobel prize
Trailblazers of a molecule linking technique honoured, including one who becomes a laureate for the second time Read more
Ex-Google ad boss builds tracker-free search engine
An advert- and tracker-free search engine launches in the UK, France and Germany on Thursday. Read more
GRE now accepted at more than half of Law Schools
The Graduate Record Examination is now accepted at 100 law schools, more than half of the 199 American law schools accredited by the American Bar Association. Read more
Blurred Lines
Patty Limerick speaks out on her abrupt firing from the Center of the American West, which she co-founded in 1986. CU Boulder found she mixed the personal and professional; she says what was once her strength suddenly became a liability. Read more
Change these ‘unconstitutional’ policies, legal organization tells 12 universities
On Monday night, Southeastern Legal Foundation sent letters to 12 universities across the country demanding that they change “unconstitutional” policies that impede students’ freedom of speech. Read more
Aid-setting exemption ends for top US universities
As legal challenge gains, Congress avoids renewing provision seen letting elite campuses tie financial offers to student ability to pay Read more
‘The System Needs to Be Changed’
New paper suggests introductory STEM courses disproportionately push underrepresented minority students out of the natural and applied sciences. Read more
Harvard Law students walk out on pro-life scholar before she started speaking
Approximately two-thirds of a Harvard Law School audience walked out on an event with a pro-life legal scholar on the future of America “After Dobbs,” according to the speaker. Read more
Physics Nobel rewards ‘spooky science’ of entanglement
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into quantum mechanics - the science that describes nature at the smallest scales. Read more
