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Updates for June 7, 2010
Arizona questions ethnic studies, UNL professors say ethnic studies prepares students
Posted from University of Nebraska at Lincoln in news on June 7th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
By: Emily Walkenhorst
Since April, the state of Arizona has found itself shrouded in controversy, first criminalizing illegal immigration and now questioning the practices and the very existence of the ethnic studies programs within its public education system. …
Updates for June 6, 2010
Study shows ambivalence toward pregnancy
Posted from University of Nebraska at Lincoln in news on June 6th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
By: Kim Buckley
While women have been split into two camps – those who wanted to get pregnant and those who don’t – a study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor concluded that one out of four women show uncertainty towards pregnancy….
Updates for June 4, 2010
OSU professor recognized for promoting diversity, research on Hemingway
Posted from Ohio State University in news on June 4th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
By: Caitlin O’Brien
After visiting Columbus for a weekend with her sorority, Delta Zeta, many years ago, Debra Moddelmog promised herself she would never live there.
These days, Moddelmog is not only living in Columbus but is a professor of English at Ohio State and has ful…
Gerry Blake Memorial Scholarship
Posted from Portland State University in news on June 4th, 2010 at 3:35 am
By: Catrice Stanley
Students interested in sustainability will be considered next spring
More than 20 years ago, when Dr. Gerald Blake was a professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State, the Community Environmental Services unit was in its infancy….
Robinson reaches out
Posted from University of Oregon in Eugene in news on June 4th, 2010 at 1:19 am
By: Ian Geronimo | News reporter
Republican candidate Art Robinson hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio
Republican candidate and former San Diego State Professor Art Robinson gave an interview preceding one of his nightly visits to the University over the last week to have political conversations with students. Robinson said he deliberately kept his visit t…
Updates for June 3, 2010
NIH awards research grant to Tech professor
Posted from Texas Tech University in Lubbock in news on June 3rd, 2010 at 6:58 pm
By: Merideth Murphey
The National Institutes of Health has given the College of Engineering a two-year, $400,000 grant to fund Zhaoming He’s research of a coaptation plate to prevent ischemic mitral regurgitation….
Updates for May 12, 2010
Editorial: Marquette O’Brien decision shames Jesuit values
Posted from Seattle University in news on May 12th, 2010 at 9:05 am
By: The Spectator Editorial Board
When the public became aware of Marquette University’s retraction of its job offer to Seattle University professor Jodi O’Brien, Marquette U officials said the basis for their decision was that O’Brien’s academic writings were cont…
Hysteria clouds good judgement
Posted from University of Oregon in Eugene in opinion on May 12th, 2010 at 12:11 am
By: Rod McLaughlin | Portland resident
Guest commentary
Last week, I attended the talk on campus, “The Ecocritical Psyche,” put on by the Evolution Focus Group, an interdisciplinary post-graduate society. A professor of literature from England gave the lecture. The lecture was a canonical exampl…
Updates for May 11, 2010
Shelves cast a calming light
Posted from University of Oregon in Eugene in news on May 11th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
By: Sarah Walters | News reporter
University professor and student find water light shelf prototypes provide stress relief
University architecture professor Kevin Nute and graduate student Aaron Weiss are testing the prototypes of their water light shelf, which can be found at three buildings in Eugene: the Women’s Care Medical Clinic, the Eugene Waldorf School and Thor…
LGBT Resource Center to offer ‘queer-friendly’ classes in fall
Posted from California State University in Long Beach in news on May 11th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
By: Cynthia Casarez
Women’s, gender and sexuality studies professor said the program needs more help from the university in order to become a minor….
Nation has high college remedial education rate
Posted from Seattle University in news on May 11th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
By: Christine Armario
Professor Derron Bowen teaches high school math to college students, patiently chalking equations on the board on basic arithmetic topics such as the speed of a driver on a a 20-hour trip….
Twins find comfort in having each other close
Posted from University of Delaware in news on May 11th, 2010 at 2:40 am
By: Lauren Zaremba
Identical siblings sometimes mistaken for each other by professors, friends
At two years old, twins Jessica and Shannon Marshall were speaking in their own language before they could talk normally. Now, 20 years later, they are closer than ever — both seniors at the university, roommates and enrolled in the same major.
Whe…
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