Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Yale University announced Saturday that it will change the name of one of its esteemed residential colleges, Calhoun College, named after ardent supporter of slavery and prominent 19th century alumnus, John C. Calhoun. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Most of us can conjure in our minds some preconceived image of a standard college campus. In fact, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited Dartmouth College in 1953, he remarked, “This is what a college campus should look like.” More...

By Andy Pearce and Ruth-Anne Lenga. On January 21 1943, an Englishman, his Dutch wife, and their two-year-old son, arrived at the so-called “Altejudenrampe”, the old unloading ramp between Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The family were immediately separated and by chance, the Englishman, named Leon Greenman, was among a small group of men chosen to work as slave labourers within the camp. Before being marched off, he caught sight of his wife, Else, and son, Barney, being loaded on to trucks. It was the last time he ever saw them. More...

By Carron Shankland. Countess Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron) was born in 1815, yet we celebrate her today as the world’s first programmer, or possibly as its first debugger. In 1843 she wrote a paper about a computer called the Analytical Engine that was never even built. More...