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Basketball Coach Fired After Arrest for Domestic Violence
The University of Texas at Austin fired Chris Beard as head men’s basketball coach after he was arrested last month...
A Better Battery for Electric Cars
Making batteries for electric vehicles can come with a human cost in poorer countries. In today’s Academic Minute, Huolin Xin...
New Law School Dean Gave Trump Bad Legal Advice
Mark Martin provided legal advice to then president Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, as Trump tried to steal the presidential election. Martin now leads High Point University Law.
An ‘Ambitious’ Regulatory Agenda
The Education Department’s docket for this year includes amending regulations on accreditation, state authorization, distance education, cash management and third-party servicers. Plus, the agency plans new Title IX and gainful-employment regulations this spring.
Opinion
Driven to Distraction
Scott McLemee reviews Jamie Kreiner’s The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction.
Could Undergrads Save the Public Health Workforce?
Bachelor’s programs in public health have surpassed master’s degrees in popularity. What does that mean for a field that desperately needs more workers?
Too Far Afield?
University of Houston pushes its dean of social work back down to the faculty. He says some professors objected to his views on racial justice and abolition.
A Better Battery for Electric Cars: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Huolin Xin, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, examines how...