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A Professor's Obituary Goes Viral
Among the items that went viral on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere this weekend was a professor's obituary, written with love...
Rice Student Goes Online to Save His Butt
Duncan Eddy, a student at Rice University, has created a website called Save Duncan's Butt to try to raise enough...
Academic Minute: Freedom of Speech
In today’s Academic Minute, Erik Bleich of Middlebury College contrasts how Americans and Europeans value and protect freedom of speech...
NSF Identifies Priorities for Social Sciences
The National Science Foundation on Thursday released "Rebuilding the Mosaic," outlining the agency's plans for providing support in the social...
Infants and Language
In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Notre Dame's Jill Lany discusses the complex nature of an infant’s ability to...
Fee Fury
Humanities scholars want to know why some top postdoc fellowship programs are charging people to apply.
Summoned to the White House (Update)
Obama invites small group of college presidents for a discussion on access, affordability and productivity.
Rapprochement in Duke China Policy
Months after faculty members voted down plan to charge foreign students U.S. tuition for program entirely abroad, a scaled-back program wins approval.