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Obama Plans Office on African-American Students
President Obama announced Wednesday night that he is planning to create a new office to focus on the needs of...
Academic Minute: Personality Targeted Advertisements
In today’s Academic Minute, Jacob Hirsh of the University of Toronto examines how the effectiveness of advertisements could be improved...
Watchdog Group Questions U. of Texas Fracking Study
A professor at the University of Texas at Austin is facing questions about his credibility after a nonprofit watchdog group...
Report: Education Programs Threatened by Sequester
While Pell Grants would be safe even if deep, mandatory cuts to domestic spending go into effect early next year...
UC-Davis Will Investigate Charges of Doctors' Research on the Dying
Officials at the University of California at Davis will investigate accusations that two physicians at the university conducted unauthorized research...
U.S. Senators Plan Bill to Tighten Student Visa System
Spurred in part by a critical audit of the American system of monitoring student visas, a group of U.S. senators...
Academic Minute: Survival Strategy of Early Plants
In today’s Academic Minute, Katie Field of the University of Sheffield explains how the earliest plants survived on an Earth...
ABA Fines U. of Illinois Law School for False Statistics
The American Bar Association has ordered the law school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to pay $250,000 as...