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Friday, October 6, 2017


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A State’s Addiction

One University Takes On the Opioid Crisis premium

By Beth McMurtrie

In West Virginia, confronting the epidemic is a moral obligation and a practical necessity.

Students

Racist Incidents Plague U. of Michigan, Angering Students and Testing Leaders

By Liam Adams

Students on the Ann Arbor campus want the perpetrators caught, and administrators more vehement in their condemnation.

Campus Speech

After a Speaker Is Shouted Down, William & Mary Becomes New Flash Point in Free-Speech Fight premium

By Katherine Mangan

Student protesters stopped the head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Virginia office from speaking. She called their actions a “classic example of a heckler’s veto.”

Teaching

A Math Dept. Welcomes Students to Its Discipline

How do you combat stereotypes of your field? 


A Year of Living Briefly


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Views


Lingua Franca

How Maria Got Her Name (That’s ‘Ma-RYE-a’)

Allan Metcalf pays tribute to the Berkeley English professor whose 1941 novel started the practice of naming hurricanes.

ProfHacker

Seasonal Cycles

What happens when we think about productivity in seasonal as well as daily terms? Jason Jones points to Matt Thomas’s reflections on the pseudo-arrival of fall.


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The Effects of Dark Matter
UWA scientists combine optical and radio observations of galaxies to determine how galaxies are affected by dark matter.


Job Opportunities


ACADEMIC DIRECTOR AND CLINICAL ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, NYU School of Professional Studies, Division of Programs in Business, New York University School of Professional Studies
New York, United States

Professor - Cynthia Tang Distinguished Professor in Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Missouri, United States

Director of Marketing, Princeton University Press
New Jersey, United States

President, College of Eastern Idaho
Idaho, United States

PROVOST AND VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, Georgia Southern University
Georgia, United States

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