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When Donated Organs Go to Waste
David Goldberg of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on a study revealing the acceptance rate for liver donations.
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At Harvard Dorms, ‘House Masters’ No More
The title “house master” as used by generations of Ivy League students to describe their residential administrators is fast becoming an anachronism. Harvard University announced Wednesday that, in a spirit of diversity and “an inclusive community,” the term was being replaced with “faculty dean.” The title of “master” had come under fire by some students and others at Harvard and other universities, including Yale and Princeton, for conjuring connotations of slavery, although its roots are from centuries-old European terms for a teacher, chief servant or head of household.
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Video: Rise of the Robots
Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science is included in a video about how human-like robots can change the future.
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Another Speaker Blocked
The president of California State University Los Angeles canceled a speech by controversial conservative writer and commentator Ben Shapiro after students and faculty objected to Shapiro's views. The president said Shapiro could appear later, but only alongside others with opposing views -- a requirement many advocates for academic freedom and free speech view as antithetical to those values.
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Philip Knight of Nike to Give $400 Million to Stanford Scholars
Philip H. Knight, the co-founder and chairman of Nike Inc., said on Monday that he had pledged to give Stanford University $400 million to recruit graduate students around the globe to address society’s most intractable problems, including poverty and climate change. The gift to the new Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, which is modeled on the Rhodes scholarships, matches one of the largest individual donations ever to a university, the $400 million that John A. Paulson, the hedge fund tycoon, gave to Harvard last year to improve its engineering school.
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Georgetown Gets $10 Million for Holocaust Research as Jewish Studies Grow at Catholic School
Georgetown University, a Catholic institution long known for scholarship on the Arab world, is intensifying its study of Jewish civilization with aid from a series of significant donations. The latest, to be announced Wednesday, is a $10 million gift for research on the Holocaust. A 13-year-old Jewish studies program in the Jesuit university’s prestigious School of Foreign Service will be formally renamed the Center for Jewish Civilization next week. The shift in nomenclature is not a small matter in academia: It signifies money, depth and commitment.
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The Scary Rise in Benzo Overdoses
Perelman School of Medicine researchers are cited for a collaborative study about benzodiazepine overdoses.
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Never Finished College? Washington State Lawmakers Want to Help.
Lawmakers in the state of Washington want to give college dropouts a chance to finish their degree for free, a novel proposal that could have far-reaching implications for boosting national completion rates. Washington’s Free to Finish College bill, which is wending its way through the legislature with bipartisan support, calls for the state to cover tuition for residents who are 15 credits short of an associates or bachelor’s degree.
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Winners and Losers in Shifting Grad Education
Pay for graduate teaching assistants in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University is among the lowest in the Big Ten -- a little less than $14,000 a year, before taxes. So the college’s recent announcement that it’s raising graduate pay to $15,000 or more next year was good news -- to some.
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What Americans Know and Fear About Zika
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the concerns Americans have about the Zika virus.