You have /5 articles left.
Sign up for a free account or log in.

Sign Up, It’s FREE
<![CDATA[
  • A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit that accused the University of California at Berkeley of unconstitutionally promoting one religious view over another through a Web site on evolution, the Associated Press reported. The suit focused on a Web site to help high school teachers deal with the evolution controversies by noting, in part, through a links section that identifies the many religious groups that do not oppose the teaching of evolution.
  • Columbia University announced Monday that it had received a gift valued at more than $200 million with which it plans to create a new neuroscience teaching and research facility. The gift, Columbia's largest ever, is from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation and Dawn M. Greene, and it will create the Jerome L. Greene Science Center, to honor Dawn Greene's late husband. The center will house Columbia's Initative in Mind, Brain and Behavior.
  • New York University is expected to announce a $200 million gift today -- to create a multidisciplinary research center on the ancient world, The New York Times reported.
  • New Jersey's Rowan University is considering a major role in a $1 billion deal in which Major League Soccer would place a new team in a studium to be built on a new Rowan campus, the Associated Press reported.
  • The University of Maine's Board of Trustees formally abandoned its plan Monday to merge the university's Augusta campus with the University of Southern Maine, the university announced Monday. The trustees had approved the plan as part of a broader restructuring in September 2004, but the board postponed the proposed merger in the face of significant opposition from legislators and other critics, who said it would undermine the campus's identity. The board plans nonetheless to shift the Augusta campus's focus from a primarily two-year to a four-year campus.
  • Seoul National University on Monday formally dismissed Hwang Woo-suk, the scientist whose highly publicized success in cloning human embryonic stem cells has been discredited, the Associated Press reported. Officials at South Korea's most prestigious institution said they had acted because Hwang had disgraced the institution; he and six other professors, who were either suspended or demoted, "fundamentally abandoned honesty and sincerity ... and caused the fall in the school's honor and the country's international confidence,'' the university said in a statement.
  • A report by a an employment consulting firm projects that this year's college graduates will find the best job market since 2001, Reuters reported.

Next Story

Woman helping a customer in a clothing store
Students Careers
How Concerning Is Underemployment of College Graduates?

Half of graduates land jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree, and 40 percent are still in such jobs a deca

Written By

Doug Lederman Doug Lederman

More from News

Woman helping a customer in a clothing store
Students Careers
How Concerning Is Underemployment of College Graduates?

Half of graduates land jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree, and 40 percent are still in such jobs a deca

Speaker Mike Johnson points a finger while standing behind a podium. Virginia Foxx and Elise Stefanik stand next to him.
Government Politics & Elections
House Republicans Threaten Colleges’ Federal Funding With New Investigations

Six House committees will probe 10 colleges’ responses to antisemitism.

Group of students on beach with matching blue T-shirts
Global Study Abroad
Defense Department Cuts 13 of its Language Flagship Programs

Linguists are concerned about the implications the elimination of these programs may have on foreign relations.