Faculty

The Government Accountability Office concluded that the Health and Human Services Department violated the law when it didn’t spend $78...

The University of Maryland ran a randomized, controlled trial of the virtual study assistant it created before deploying across campus. One problem? Just 15 percent of students in the study actually used it.

Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.

Francis Halzen, a Belgium-born physicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics...

Karl Deisseroth, a professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, was among the trio of...

Harvard University and City Colleges of Chicago unions took steps toward strikes last month as contract negotiations dragged on. Meanwhile, other unions are making their contract fights visible to the rest of campus through rallies and petitions.

A recent report on the humanities criticizes the distortion of scholarship in the service of political goals. Other disciplines would like a word.

By Adrienne D. Davis

Jane Austen, Frederick Douglass, Adam Smith and Søren Kierkegaard made the cut.