Two Louisiana university systems have quietly settled lawsuits filed against BP that sought to recover hundreds of millions of dollars for what the schools said was lost revenue tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

A homemade gadget can disable the systems that allow self-driving cars to see where they are going, a security researcher has said.

I find the concept of Teachers' Day a bit odd actually.

Academics in countries adopting a permissive attitude under copyright law to data mining are three times more likely to publish research based on the technique than colleagues in countries with a more restrictive approach.

While Bernie Sanders has been attracting considerable support on campuses ...

Free community college has been touted on the national scene, but now a college in North Carolina is carrying out the goal for students in two economically distressed counties.

The proposal seemed straightforward: Erect 16 wind turbines on hilltops in rural Maine and generate enough electricity to power 25,000 homes ...

University of Michigan freshmen who rack up two alcohol or drug violations won’t just have campus authorities to deal with

Tennis superstar Venus Williams, currently focusing on her game this week at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows, New York, recently added another achievement to her resume: a Bachelor of Science degree.

Come November, the University of Iowa will have a businessman with little experience in academe at its helm -- and many faculty members and others in Iowa City aren’t happy about it.