Opinion

In my perambulations of the internet, I came across an action plan for a neighborhood called Snyder, in Amherst NY...

By G. Rendell

I have been reading Libby Gruner’s recent “advising” columns with interest, both because I wish I’d had someone like her...

By Susan O'Doherty

Curtis J. Bonk offers advice for the start of an academic career.

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Oral exams shouldn't be reserved for the dissertation defense, write Tom Deans and Jamie Frueh, who use them with their undergrads.

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I'm reading a great book called The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain...

By Joshua Kim

The "what ten books have influenced you?" meme is making its way around the blogs, and while I don't usually...

By Dean Dad

No, this information does not originate with the Finnish linguist Sloof Lirpa. It originates at, among other places, the University...

By G. Rendell

"People seemed to run out of their own being," says Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman in American Pastoral, as he considers...

By UD