27 octobre 2019
Not Following the (Non-)Rules
By Scott Jaschik. Some colleges were violating NACAC rules before they changed. More...
27 octobre 2019
Georgetown Protest Blocks Homeland Official From Speaking
By Scott Jaschik. Protesters at Georgetown University blocked Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, from giving a keynote at conference on immigration Monday, The Washington Post reported. More...
27 octobre 2019
Nobel Prize in Physics
By Scott Jaschik. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded this morning to James Peebles of Princeton University and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva. Peebles won half the prize "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology." Mayor and Queloz shared the other half of the prize "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star." More...
27 octobre 2019
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
By Scott Jaschik. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded this morning to John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino of the Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University, in Japan. More...
27 octobre 2019
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
By Scott Jaschik. Three economists were named winners of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics this morning “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." They are: Abhijit Banerjee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Esther Duflo, also of MIT, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University. More...
27 octobre 2019
Nobel in Medicine
By Scott Jaschik. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded this morning jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability." Kaelin is a professor at the Harvard University Medical School and is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Ratcliffe is a professor at the University of Oxford. Semenza is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. More...
27 octobre 2019
Nobel in Literature
By Scott Jaschik. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature was named this morning as Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life."
And the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature was named this morning as Peter Handke "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."
Last year, the Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded amid a scandal over alleged conflicts of interest, sexual harassment and sexual assault involving a man (since convicted of rape) married to a member of the Swedish Academy. More...
27 octobre 2019
‘What Snowflakes Get Right’
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses his book that seeks a new framework for the debate about free speech on campus. More...
27 octobre 2019
The Sentences
By Scott Jaschik. To date, only one parent in admissions scandal has avoided a jail sentence. More...
27 octobre 2019
Kansas Apologizes for Snoop Dogg Performance
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Kansas has apologized for a performance by the rapper Snoop Dogg Friday night, USA Today reported. The show, intended to celebrate the start of basketball season, featured pole dancers and lewd lyrics. More...
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