By Colleen Flaherty. A new study in BioScience says that undergraduate research contributes to success in careers in the sciences, technology, engineering and math. Researchers compared the scientific career outcomes of 88 accepted participants in five National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates site programs with demographically similar applicants to those programs who were not selected. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Open-access devotees in anthropology had high hopes for HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory upon its launch in 2011. The idea behind HAU -- named after the concept of "hau" described in Marcel Mauss's The Gift -- wasn't just to shake up academic publishing's subscription model but also to elevate ethnography within the field. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Northwestern University settled Friday with a man who said he was wrongly convicted in a double murder case following attention from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. How sexual harassment allegations against a guest speaker rocked Santa Barbara City College last semester -- and, one professor says, cost him his job. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Adjunct faculty members at Nazareth College voted to form a union affiliated with Service Employees International Union, they announced Tuesday. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Is philosophy really ignoring important questions about transgender identity, specifically what it means to be a woman?
As last year’s Hypatia debate revealed, writing philosophy about being transgender is tricky. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Oklahoma returned donations from a retired professor of engineering accused of sexual harassment and banned him from working on campus in 2016, The Norman Transcript reported. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. New data analysis from American Academy of Arts and Sciences says humanities Ph.D.s may earn less than their counterparts in other fields but are satisfied -- particularly if they stay in academe. More...