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Faculty & Staff

Virginia Tech Professor Charged with Fraud in Grant Funding

ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia Tech professor has been accused of defrauding the university and the federal government in a case that involves more than $1 million in grant funding. An affidavit filed in the U.S. Western District Court of Virginia says Yiheng Percival Zhang was charged last week with wire fraud, making criminal false […]

September 26, 2017

Sports

Racism, Bullying Best Defeated by a Team

Current controversial exchanges between President Trump and those protesting against police brutality and social inequality drives home the point that Black athletes can teach us about more than just sports.

September 25, 2017

Students

ETS Survey Aimed at Diversifying Teaching Field

ETS also has partnered with three Tribal Colleges to go even deeper than the survey, conducting phone interviews and site visits to further explore the challenges that schools face in admitting and retaining minority, specifically Native American, teacher candidates.

September 25, 2017

Students

New Report Brings Facts to Light on Minority Serving Institutions

The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions report, backed by a campaign that utilized 52 data points for 52 weeks, highlights the contributions that MSIs make to higher education.

September 6, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Runstedtler Thrives at Intersection of Race, History and Sports

Dr. Theresa Runstedtler has led Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies Collaborative at American University as chair since fall 2015.

September 6, 2017

Sports

Florida State Answers Report Alleging Academic Favoritism

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University once again finds itself answering allegations of academic fraud involving its football program. The New York Times on Friday reported that six players on the 2013 National Championship team received special treatment in online courses. The university said in an email to The Associated Press that an independent investigation […]

September 4, 2017

Home

Rusert’s Book Looks Back at Fight Against Racist Sciences

Dr. Britt Rusert’s new book, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture, sheds a contemporary light on the Black artists, scientists, clergy and activists working to critique and challenge the “racist sciences” of the 19th century.

August 31, 2017

Faculty & Staff

The Pathology of Delusions

The scenario of being criticized and threatened for writing honestly about race and/or racism in America has been played out many times in the near century since scholar E. Franklin Frazier and his wife left Atlanta under the threat of mob violence.

August 31, 2017

Students

Scholar: Graduate Research Internships a Resource to Fill STEM Workforce Gap

Expanding opportunities for more students to take advantage of graduate research internships might address future workforce needs in the U.S. and alleviate some of the pressure that faculty face to supplement their rigorous research training with the teaching of, and exposure to, technical and professional career skills and opportunities.

August 30, 2017

Students

National Study Shows Freshmen Better Off Taking 15 Credits

Students who took 15 credits during their first year of college did better academically and were retained at higher rates than those who took fewer credits, a new EAB analysis has found.

August 21, 2017

News Roundup

Study: One-fifth of Americans Find Workplace Hostile or Threatening

WASHINGTON — The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile. So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles. Among the findings: Nearly one in five workers — a share the study calls “disturbingly high” — say they face a […]

August 14, 2017

Students

University of Memphis Lands its Largest Research Contract

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The University of Memphis has landed the largest research contract in the school’s history. The Commercial Appeal reported that the university won a $13.8 million research contract from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to lead a team of six universities studying wearable sensors. The work began at the end […]

July 27, 2017