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Millsaps College fired politics and religion professor James Bowley this week over an email he sent to students the day after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. According to Bowley ...

She immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe 20 years ago. “I successfully launched two kids on my own plus sponsored my mom for 10 years,” Melanie writes in an e-mail. She bought a house a ...

HONG KONG: A former university professor in Hong Kong accused of murdering his family with a yoga ball filled with lethal gas has been found guilty of killing his wife and daughter, after failing ...

Stuart Alan Rice, a longtime professor at the University of Chicago whose pioneering research shaped the field of physical chemistry in the second half of the 20th century, died Dec. 22 at the age of ...

The comment from an anonymous professor in Inner Mongolia, northern China, went viral in a video clip circulating on mainland social media at the end of December, according to a report by Daxiang ...

Academics, lawyers and activists have voiced support for a law professor who says she was pressured to leave Columbia University for her advocacy for pro-Palestinian students. “Effective today ...

Katherine Franke, a law professor and vocal advocate of pro-Palestinian students, had been under investigation over remarks she made about Israeli students. By Stephanie Saul Columbia University ...

A longtime tenured Columbia University law professor who faced public criticism from Columbia’s president and congressional Republicans will no longer teach at the institution, after more than 25 ...