Opinion

Professor is an odd thing. Students call out "Professor!" in the hall, and sometimes they mean me. Professor Soltan. Yet...

By UD

Around 1952, the brown treesnake ( Boiga irregularis) arrived on Guam from somewhere in the South Pacific, presumably as an...

By Peter Wood

A new correspondent writes: I read your blog everyday. I go to a suny cc (I graduate in June) and...

By Dean Dad

Congratulations, Clancy!

By Dean Dad

For society to thrive, universities can -- must -- introduce their students to the perennial questions and issues that define democratic theory and practice, writes Thomas Lindsay.

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OK, so the blog has been on hiatus for a few days. I haven't. Quite the opposite. Since the weekend...

By G. Rendell

When I was very little, my mom took me down to the Mississippi to see a river barge that had...

By Oronte

Unless it is altered, legislation pending in Congress would negatively affect research universities, administrators and inventors alike, write Sheldon Steinbach and Bruce Wieder.

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