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Iran Releases Imprisoned Physicist
A physicist imprisoned in Iran for five years has been released on parole and will be allowed to leave the...
Cedar Crest to Send All Sophomores to Rio
A women’s college in Pennsylvania will send its sophomore class on an 8-day trip to Brazil at no extra cost...
Professor's Response to Twitter Slur Goes Viral
The fall semester has just started but Eric Mendenhall, an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Alabama...
Washing of Feet to Send Message to Students
An Easter Week tradition sees popes and others washing the feet of powerful people, as a sign of quality and...
Academic Minute: Mercury in California's Fog
Today on the Academic Minute: Peter Weiss, research associate at the University of California Santa Cruz, explains why fog, and...
Two Ithaca Students Stabbed -- One Fatally -- at Cornell
Two students at Ithaca College were stabbed -- one of them fatally -- at Cornell University early Sunday morning. Officials...
Genes as Cues for Development
What do your genes say about you? In today's Academic Minute, the University of Exeter's Sasha Dall explores how genotype...
The Chicago Letter and Its Aftermath
The university's note to new students sets off national debate on safe spaces, trigger warnings and more. Presidents of Bowdoin and Yale, with different tone, urge engagement with uncomfortable ideas.