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Academic Minute: Understanding How the Sun Damages Your Skin
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Binghamton University Week: Guy German, associate professor of biomedical engineering, reminds us to...
Professor Not Teaching After Blackface ‘Othello’ Showing
Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, is no longer teaching this semester after he showed his students the 1965 film version of Shakespeare’s Othello, which stars white actor Laurence Olivier in blackface as the titular character.
SMU Angers Faculty by Lifting Mask Mandate
Southern Methodist University is repealing its mask mandate, effective today. “After carefully reviewing the current COVID-19 environment on campus, SMU...
California Public Colleges Must Provide Free Tampons
California public colleges must provide free tampons in bathrooms, under legislation signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, NPR...
Report: More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings
Employees who hold a bachelor’s degree tend to earn more than employees without one, but not always, according to a...
Professor Who Required Masks Now Allowed to Teach Online
The University of Northern Iowa will now allow a professor disciplined for requiring masks in his lab-based course on plant...
Will the PSAT Arrive on Time?
The next administration of the PSAT is supposed to be Oct. 13. But many high schools were alarmed by a...
Lhamon Nomination for OCR Will Get Senate Vote
The U.S. Senate voted 50 to 49 Thursday to discharge Catherine Lhamon’s nomination for assistant secretary of civil rights at...