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Academic Minute: Authorship of da Vinci Paintings
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Arcadia University Week, Jill Pederson, associate professor of art history, examines whether some...
Professor Brings New Meaning to ‘No Excuses’
Howard University is distancing itself from an unidentified professor who apparently wrote in a syllabus that family deaths were no...
See Hate Speech, Leave It Up
Resident assistants at University of Michigan are worried about not being able to remove racist or other offensive language from dormitory doors. Officials say they can't suppress free expression.
Deal Reached to End Wright State Faculty Strike
Wright State University and its American Association of University Professors-affiliated faculty union reached an agreement late Sunday to end the...
Giving to Colleges Is Up 7.2%
Total hits $46,730,000,000 -- with more $100 million gifts than ever before.
Study of Words Used in NSF Grant Proposals
A new study ( abstract available here) in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology analyzed the words used in...
Simulating Oil Spills in the Lab
It turns out you can simulate an oil spill in the lab. In today's Academic Minute, Florida International University's Piero...
The Big Gift You Haven't Heard About
A $5 million donation may seem like small change in the era of Bloomberg's billions. But at community colleges the impact can be dramatic.