College activists create alarm over alleged ‘anti-Semitic attacks’
Alumni and students from a prominent college in Ohio are concerned that pro-Palestinian student activists have taken their political views too far ...
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Is It Discriminatory to Require Peer Review?
A former professor at the University of British Columbia who lost her tenure bid because of a poor publication record ...
Children urge Australia to free them from Nauru island ‘prison’
At just 10 years old, Mizba Ahmed and her family fled persecution in Myanmar.
Astronomers discover largest solar system
Astronomers have discovered the largest known solar system, consisting of a large planet that takes nearly a million years to orbit its star.
Google ships five million Cardboard virtual reality devices
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said it had shipped 5 million units of the Google Cardboard viewer, a wearable device that allows users to experience virtual reality through mobile apps.
Scientists offered $1 million in prizes to pre-register experiments
Scientists are being offered a $1,000 (£705) prize if they pre-register their plans for experiments in a bid to make research results more reproducible.
What the fourth industrial revolution means for sustainability
Against the backdrop of the Swiss Alps sparkling in the bright sun, I’ve been listening to some of the world’s most prominent business leaders discuss the next industrial revolution — and just what it will take to build a carbon-free economy.
Terrorism allegations seek to silence dissent in Turkish academia, says scholar
Accusations of “propagating terrorism” made against more than 1,000 Turkish academics are an attempt to destroy the country’s last bastion of free speech, one under-threat scholar has claimed.
Divided Over Diversity
Baylor University has had its fair share of administrative turnover in recent memory: two of its last three presidents were forced out after clashing with the faculty and the Board of Trustees ...
Kansas trailing behind 2020 higher education goal
Colleges will need to recruit, retain more nontraditional students, data show
