Tag: Faculty Research: Page 10

Faculty & Staff

A Pipeline to the Tenure Track

Postdoctoral Fellowships are increasingly being seen as a recruiting tool to improve faculty diversity.

April 1, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Relishing Reprisal-free Research

While growing up, a career in medicine appealed to Dr. Hana Abdalla because of the community good she could accomplish. Women’s health issues also intrigued her because so many of them were not openly discussed in her native Sudan.

March 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Saving Lives in the Academy and Operating Room

First Hispanic University of Texas System chancellor tackles financial problems and challenges Top 10 admission rule, while still performing surgeries.

March 19, 2009

Students

IT: Intellectually Taxing?

At least one professor worries about the intellectual impact of some student-directed uses of technology.

March 19, 2009

Students

Is the Internet Stupefying Students?

At least one professor worries about the intellectual impact of some student-directed uses of technology.

March 18, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Saving Lives in the Academy and Operating Room

First Hispanic to head the University of Texas System plans to tackle financial problems and challenge Top 10 admission rule, while still performing surgeries.

March 4, 2009

Students

Chronicling the Lives of Native Americans on Predominantly White Campuses

Amanda LeClair, a senior at the University of Wyoming, is not an activist by nature.

March 3, 2009

Faculty & Staff

MIT Taking Steps to Ensure Minority Faculty Pipeline

When Dr. James L. Sherley began a hunger strike outside of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provost’s office in February 2007 alleging racism in his tenure denial, the thenassociate professor of biological engineering reignited, in a very public way, concerns about the institution’s commitment to diversity.

February 18, 2009

Students

Black Males Achieving More on College Campuses

Colleges applying similar techniques to reach and keep Hispanic males.

February 10, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Higher Ed Leaders Debate Best Path to College Presidency

Should young and minority faculty take nontraditional route to leadership positions?

February 10, 2009

Faculty & Staff

UCSC Professor to Unveil Research on Migration and Poverty

Patricia Zavella, a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will present the results of more than a decade of research during a talk, “Migration and Poverty in Santa Cruz County,” on Tuesday. February 10.

February 3, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Audit Clears Former North Carolina A&T Chancellor

Former North Carolina A&T Chancellor James C. Renick and Anna Anita Huff, a program manager, were accused of misusing university funds but now both are not found to be in violation of any laws nor did they personally spend the misused funds. Renick left the university in 2006 to take a position at the American Council on Education in Washington.

January 20, 2009