In addition to the federal complaint in which several women alleged that they experienced sexual and racial harassment on their jobs at Alabama State University, at least three other lawsuits have been filed by former employees of the institution in recent months, The Montgomery Advertiser reported. One of the cases, filed under the federal False Claims Act, involves an administrator who alleges that he was fired in retaliation for cautioning top administrators about a possible misuse of federal funds. The other two cases were filed in state court by employees who say they were wrongly terminated. The university's legal counsel, Kenneth Thomas, told the newspaper that the lawsuits are frivolous and that he believes a former trustee, Joe L. Reed, is behind the litigation.

Grigori Perelman, the reclusive Russian mathematician who discovered a way to solve a mathematical problem known as the Poincaré conjecture but refused to accept a Fields Medal for his work, has been named the recipient of another honor, the first of the $1-million Millennium Prizes to be awarded by the Clay Mathematics Institute. The institute has been in touch with Mr. Perelman, its president, James Carlson, told The New York Times, but it was unclear whether the mathematician would accept the prize. “He will let me know in due time,” Mr. Carlson said.

The leader of the State University of New York announced on Thursday that she would recommend Aaron M. Podolefsky, the departing president of the University of Central Missouri, to become the next president of Buffalo State College. SUNY's trustees will consider the recommendation, by Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher, next week. If his appointment is approved, Mr. Podolefsky will take office at Buffalo on July 1, a day after his contract ends at Central Missouri. That institution's governing board narrowly voted last fall not to renew his contract, despite a faculty petition in his support.

The NCAA announced on Thursday that it had placed the University of Nevada at Reno on probation for three years and fined it $1,500, among other penalties, after finding major violations in its men's and women's golf programs. A report from the association's Division I Committee on Infractions outlines the violations, which included improper benefits for players and unethical conduct by the former head men's golf coach. The institution's president, Milton D. Glick, said the university agreed with the NCAA's findings and described the penalties as "appropriate," the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

Madonna G. Constantine, the former Columbia University professor who was fired in 2008 for plagiarism, has lost one of three lawsuits she filed against the university and her accusers, the Associated Press reported. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, a Manhattan judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying officials of Columbia's Teachers College had acted within their authority in dismissing Ms. Constantine. Her lawyer said she would press on with a $200-million defamation suit in state court and a federal discrimination complaint. She denies the plagiarism findings that led to her firing.

The University of New Hampshire and Franklin Pierce Law Center, a private law school in Concord, N.H., have approved an affiliation agreement, the first step toward a merger, their presidents announced on Tuesday. Under the agreement, which requires the approval of the American Bar Association and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Pierce would become the University of New Hampshire School of Law. The two institutions have been discussing the idea of merging since mid-2008. The announcement comes about a month after a similar deal was approved in Massachusetts for the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth to acquire the Southern New England School of Law.

Florida A&M University's trustees were not exactly delighted to learn that the university's name was being used in an online sex video. Today, they unanimously agreed to sue the company that posted the video, the Tallahassee Democrat reported. The university has been receiving complaints about the video for about two weeks. Avery D. McKnight, the institution's general counsel, told the newspaper that Florida A&M is suing to defend its reputation and protect its brand and trademarks.

A court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of a consulting firm in bankruptcy proceedings is suing Yale University for the return of $6-million in donations, The Wall Street Journal reported. The firm, BearingPoint Inc., had paid that amount as part of a $30-million deal to endow a chair in management and name facilities at the university before it filed for bankruptcy last year. A spokeswoman for Yale, Tabitha Wilde, declined to comment to the newspaper on the suit.

Stevens Institute of Technology -- which recently reached an agreement with New Jersey's attorney general to settle complaints related to its departing president's compensation and other financial issues -- may have also attracted a federal agency's interest, ABC News reported. State officials told the network that they had been contacted by investigators with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who want to make sure that nearly $3-million in federal grants to Stevens was spent properly. Homeland Security would not say whether an investigation was under way, and Stevens officials said they were unaware of any inquiry. Pete McDonough, a consultant who has advised the university during its legal negotiations with New Jersey, told ABC, "I think the settlement makes clear that all the necessary financial requirements and safeguards have been put in place."

The University of Florida has hired an outside firm to review the March 2 incident in which a campus police officer shot and seriously wounded a Ph.D. student at the student's apartment, the university's president, J. Bernard Machen, announced on Friday. Officers had talked to the man, Kofi Adu-Brempong, the day before, after he had expressed fears that he would be kidnapped and returned to Africa, The Gainesville Sun reported. They returned on March 2 after a neighbor reported screams coming from the apartment. According to a police report, Mr. Adu-Brempong was shot in the jaw as he swung a metal rod at an officer.