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From IUPUI’s press release: Scientists in Indianapolis and Cuba are now collaborating to discover treatments for neglected diseases. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis undergraduate students and researchers recently traveled to Cuba to conduct a workshop and begin a partnership with the University of Havana implementing IUPUI’s Distributed Drug Discovery, or D3, program. The American Chemical Society […]

A professor said, through his many travel experiences for research, Marxism doesn’t work in the real world.

“Minor error,” huh? Okay. The correction came three years after the paper claimed social liberals were linked with “Social Desirability,” and conservatives with authoritarianism. The paper “Correlation not Causation: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies” was released in October 2013. The researchers admitted the results were “exactly reversed,” in a correction in January, […]

Huh? Andrea Quenette used the n-word in class, in context, and was cleared by a school investigation at Kansas. But, administrators still fired her for her not fulfilling her research duties while she was suspended and being investigated. Does that sound fair?

Academics are still trying to point out the dangers of global warming, even while the rest of us are still wearing winter clothes well into the month of May. “Although the world’s nations, including the United States, should intensify their efforts to reduce carbon emissions, we cannot wait patiently for action on carbon emissions while […]

Here’s one of the reasons we do what we do. Even when the remaining journalists on the education beat bend over backwards to cover a story fairly, they still wind up giving it the educational establishment spin. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently covered the conservative scholar program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. […]

This is not a joke: The federal government has awarded the University of Michigan (UM) a grant of over $500,000 to conduct research on the effect of microaggressions on women in the engineering fields. “This early stage research project will identify specific behavioral manifestations of gender stereotypes—microaggressions—and their cumulative effect on learning, performance, and persistence […]

A good take from a Georgetown University professor. Photo by ehpien

She has traded in her teaching position at Wheaton College in Illinois for an Islam research job at the University of Virginia.

Wait, when did we decide to arbitrarily enforce the Constitution and Bill of Rights? Photo by aschweigert

Universities have come a long way from the days of yore when they proclaimed that part of their mission was the search of truth. At the Heritage Foundation recently, Brooklyn College history professor KC Johnson noted that “in the last decade…the two most significant…rape hoaxes in the United States happened on college campuses” at Duke […]

A University of Lincoln research fellow, Julie Bindel, also noted that gender should be eliminated because it subordinates women.