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Lecture April 21: Are those who remain silent on wrongdoing complicit in it?
Coming Down From the Clouds: On Academic Writing

On February 11, a team of scientists announced that they had recorded the sound made by two black holes colliding. Despite all the noise in the universe, their sensitive equipment found evidence of ripples in space-time, a core element in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It was an…

Stewart delivers keynote at Georgia conference
Whatever happened to German America?
A Tale of Two Newmans

The expanding controversy over President Simon Newman’s words and actions at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland provides an opportunity to reflect on how much has changed since a previous Newman, Cardinal John Henry Newman, authored his still widely read The Idea of a University (1853).…

Inaugural winners of Diversity and Social Justice Grants announced
Neem has essay published on the emergence of common schools
In memoriam: Jim Hitchman
Margaret Spellings's Vision for Higher Education

In the week between the revelation that the University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors was looking at former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to lead the 16-campus system and her ultimate selection last Friday, most of the reporting and commentary focused on whether the board and…

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