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The CIA Within Academe
Book documents how foreign and domestic intelligence agencies use -- and perhaps exploit -- higher education and academe for spy operations.
Do Medical Schools Still Need Books?
At many medical schools, new or renovated libraries have few books. Librarians are divided on the trend.
MIT, Caltech Professors Share Nobel in Physics
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this morning to three researchers "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector...
Faculty Departures Quadruple at U of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming has lost four times as many faculty members in the past year than it has in...
Elsevier Launches Encyclopedic Tool
Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia. The tool...
$140 Million Gift to 3 Private Universities in N.C.
Wake Forest University, Queens University of Charlotte and Wingate University will collectively receive more than $140 million under a wealthy...
New York Free College Goes to 22,000 and Counting
About 22,000 students are attending a State University of New York or City University of New York campus without paying...
Academic Minute: Climate Change and Fighting HIV
Today on the Academic Minute: Brian King, associate professor in the department of geography at Pennsylvania State University, examines whether...