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Faculty & Staff

‘Hanging On and Seeing It Through’

Dr. Quinetta Roberson wanted to have an MBA before she turned 21, and to become a tenured professor…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Interdisciplinary Innovator

It’s hard to predict where the career path of Dr. Sean M. Decatur may ultimately lead…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

They Call Him the ‘Mozart of Math’

Talk about a very good year. Last August, Dr. Terence Tao won the prestigious Fields Medal…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Interpreting Religion Through Music

When Lorenzo Candelaria’s 7-year-old daughter asked what he does at work, the University of Texas musicologist told her…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Investigating Health Disparities

Although many scientists have a passion for research because they enjoy working in a laboratory

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Resilience: My Pathway to the Information Technology Professoriate

While recently attending a conference in Atlanta, a scholarly gentleman and I struck up a conversation regarding academic life and multidisciplinary research…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Duke Fallout Continues as Top Black Professor Resigns From Race Committee

The Duke University professor heading a university-appointed committee to investigate race relations on campus in the wake of last spring’s men’s lacrosse scandal has resigned from that committee in protest against the recent decision to invite two of the players back on to campus.

January 9, 2007

Students

Reinventing the Outreach Wheel?

As a professor of Chicano studies, a faculty adviser to the student organization MEChA and a mentor…

December 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

In Memorian

In Memorian Gerald M. Boyd: The first Black managing editor of the New York Times, Boyd was instrumental in coverage that won the newspaper three Pulitzers: for articles about the first World Trade Center bombing, for a series on children of poverty, and for a series on race relations in the United States. It was […]

December 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Boston College Researchers To Develop Urban Environmental Science Curriculum

Working with at least 50 high school science teachers and 5,000 high school students over the next three years…

December 27, 2006

Faculty & Staff

MIT Professor Threatens Hunger Strike Over Tenure Denial

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has threatened to go on a hunger strike outside the provost’s office on February 5, 2007, if he is not granted tenure.

December 21, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Just The Stats: A Closer Look At STEM Majors

What role does mentorship play in the number of international students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the United States? A reader from the Southeast posed that question to me, specifically asking about the correlation between the number of international professors and international students in the STEM fields.

December 14, 2006