Brown U. rejects oil-funded research ban, says all corporate donors will be made public
Brown University rejected petitions to ban oil and gas funded research, opting instead for transparency in donations to the school. Read more
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India’s ‘blockbuster’ drugs to take on deadly superbugs
Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviours. But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause. Read more
Cornell Interim President Accused of Violating Academic Freedom After Email Leaks
A professor’s accusation that another’s course is antisemitic and dangerous spilled out into public after the interim president weighed in and his private email was shared. Read more
Japan’s American university grows as students stay close to home
Temple University Japan reports record enrolments and plans Kyoto campus Read more
Telegram U-turns and joins child safety scheme
After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection schemes, the controversial messaging app Telegram has agreed to work with an internationally recognised body to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Read more
Columbia, Penn State cancer researchers face retractions, one blames LGBTQ discrimination
Two prominent cancer researchers at Columbia and Pennsylvania State universities had their research articles retracted recently due to allegations of misconduct, including the use of manipulated data. Read more
Students Think Faculty Should Be Mentors. What Does That Look Like?
Over half of students believe their professors are at least somewhat responsible for being a mentor to them. Faculty weigh in on the feasibility of this effort. Read more
Four in 10 UK university governors are white British men
Governors representing multiple protected characteristics could mean only a ‘small number of individuals’ are responsible for boosting boards’ diversity figures Read more
ETSU president resists Congressional pressure, maintains controversial art exhibit depicting Mike Johnson as a Nazi with new ‘waiver’ requirement for viewing
East Tennessee State University President Brian Noland has announced that the Fletcher Exhibit will remain on campus, despite its inclusion of works containing conservative figures alongside swastikas, Hitler, and Ku Klux Klan hoods. Read more
Losing your mind looking at memes? The dictionary has a word for that
Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok? If so, you might be suffering from brain rot, which Oxford University Press has named its phrase or word of the year. Read more
