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Faculty & Staff

Protest Against Budget Cuts Held at LSU

The latest round of college budget cuts, combined with threats of still more to come, provoked protest Tuesday from LSU faculty and students and a burgeoning movement that promised more organized opposition when negotiations on next year’s budget begin.

January 20, 2010

Faculty & Staff

University of Virginia Names First Female President

The university’s Board of Visitors on Monday elected Teresa Sullivan to succeed President John Casteen.

January 11, 2010

Faculty & Staff

NEUROBIOLOGY : Free To Express And Contribute

For Dr. Gonzalo E. Torres, scientific research — and academia in general — is about the freedom to break away from the herd.

January 6, 2010

Students

MATH : Life In Absolute Values

As a high school student in East Los Angeles, Dr. Erika Tatiana Camacho didn’t know what ganas looked like. She aspired to only one thing: becoming a store cashier.

January 6, 2010

Students

LAW : Challenging Tradition

As a young Indian-American growing up in mostly White southern New Jersey, Madhavi Sunder’s most vital links to her cultural heritage included her uncles, aunts and cousins who emigrated from India to the United States.

January 6, 2010

Faculty & Staff

LAW : Native American Law and Order

University of Idaho law professor Angelique EagleWoman first became interested in the law after her African-American uncle was assaulted by a group of deputies and subsequently awarded $75,000 in punitive damages.

January 6, 2010

Students

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES : The Internationalist

Count Dr. Michael K. Dorsey as a scholar whose experience as an advocate on behalf of poor and marginalized peoples is as formidable as the expertise he demonstrates while teaching and conducting research in his capacity as an assistant professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College.

January 6, 2010

Students

EDUCATION: Representative Research

Dr. Luis Urrieta Jr. Draws distinct lines to separate his professional life from his personal life, but his work is, in fact, personal to him.

January 6, 2010

Faculty & Staff

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Computing For Cures

When Dr. Yaohang Li’s parents steered him as a teenager toward a computing career, it didn’t douse any of his passion for laboratory sciences.

January 6, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Athletes Play for Pride, Coaches Get Bonuses

The players at Texas and Alabama will compete tonight for the chance to be called national champions and for a beautiful crystal trophy to be placed outside their locker room while their coaches stand to make hundreds of thousands of dollars.

January 6, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Faculty Union Files Grievance with University of Hawaii

HONOLULU – The union that represents University of Hawaii faculty on Monday filed a class grievance directly with university president Dr. M.R.C. Greenwood, demanding she retract her letter of last week to faculty about her plans to unilaterally impose pay cuts.

January 5, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Obama’s Presidential Campaign Explored by Language Scholars

Professors and students of languages and literature examined the historic campaign and election of the nation’s first Black president at the 125th annual Modern Language Association convention.

January 3, 2010