India Denies Ousting Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen from University Role The Wall Street Journal India Denies Ousting Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen from University Role Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen spearheaded a yearslong project to re-establish Nalanda University, an ancient center of learning in eastern India that once drew students from across Asia. Now, less than six months after the new Nalanda started operating, Mr.
Tortured Data Will Confess to Anything Dallas Morning News Tortured Data Will Confess to Anything Uri Simonsohn of the Wharton School explains “p-hacking.”
Audio: How Michele Bachmann Inspired Factcheck.org to Debunk Lies About Science MotherJones.com Audio: How Michele Bachmann Inspired Factcheck.org to Debunk Lies About Science Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discusses SciCheck.
At Princeton, Women Make Strides at Clubs That Once Barred Them The New York Times At Princeton, Women Make Strides at Clubs That Once Barred Them Princeton University’s 11 eating clubs are where most of its upperclassmen go for dinner every night, as the name implies.
Self Affirmations Can Be Good for You Boston Globe Self Affirmations Can Be Good for You Emily Falk of the Annenberg School for Communication is cited for studying how self-affirmations can help with healthy habits.
China’s New Audience China Daily China’s New Audience Monroe Price of the Annenberg School for Communication says, “How China conducts itself as a global citizen is often more important than how a message is crafted or delivered.”
Objects and Architecture That Shape Lives Philadelphia Inquirer Objects and Architecture That Shape Lives Thomas Sugrue of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about civil rights in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
Audio: Gamechanger: Jerome Allen CBS Philadelphia Audio: Gamechanger: Jerome Allen Jerome Allen, head coach of men’s basketball and an alum, is profiled.
Who Is Being Political? Inside Higher Ed Who Is Being Political? There is wide agreement in North Carolina that Gene Nichol is an articulate and forceful advocate for the impoverished of his state, unafraid to criticize political leaders who in his opinion aren't doing enough about poverty. Nichol does so from an academic perch. He is a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and leads the university's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
Its Future in Doubt, South Carolina State Ponders Its Disastrous Recent Past Chronicle of Higher Education Its Future in Doubt, South Carolina State Ponders Its Disastrous Recent Past Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the financial troubles of South Carolina State University.