http://chronicle.com/section/People/36/ News :: People Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:10:42 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130731/ http://chronicle.com/article/5-Minutes-With-a-Student/130731/ A University of Colorado at Denver student shares what it was like to be the "face" of student loans at President Obama's State of the Union speech.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130729/ http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-New-Mexico-Hears-a-New/130729/ Several rocky years preceded Robert Frank's appointment. He acknowledges that "skeptical" faculty want him to prove he was the right choice.

]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130668/ http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Utahs-New-President/130668/ David W. Pershing, who has been at the university since 1977, hopes to raise its status and improve completion by raising admissions standards.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130663/ http://chronicle.com/article/Founding-Director-of-U-of/130663/ After he was diagnosed with the muscle-wasting illness, in 2004, Richard K. Olney became a patient in a clinical trial he had designed.

]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130476/ http://chronicle.com/article/5-Minutes-With-2-Married/130476/ Two sacred-music specialists at Notre Dame are on a mission to improve the link between music and worship.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130483/ http://chronicle.com/article/Suffolk-Us-New-President/130483/ James McCarthy's experience as provost at another urban campus, CUNY's Baruch College, will also inform his approach at the Boston institution.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130493/ http://chronicle.com/article/Slide-Show-Richard-Merritt/130493/ Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130474/ http://chronicle.com/article/Richard-Merritt-Founding/130474/ Mr. Merritt taught photography at the University of New Hampshire for almost 40 years, and he exhibited his work there as well.

]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130409/ http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Chicago-Hires/130409/ Yusuke Nakamura stepped down from a cabinet-level position in Japan to join Chicago, where he'll pursue his study of how genetics affect responses to drugs.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130417/ http://chronicle.com/article/5-Minutes-With-the-Student/130417/ Kent State was going to rename its basketball court after a generous alumnus until the reporter, Doug Brown, revealed fraud in the donor's past.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130415/ http://chronicle.com/article/Jo-Rae-Wright-Former-Dean-of/130415/ Ms. Wright, a cell biologist who stepped down as dean in October, is remembered for keeping students in her orbit long after they left her lab.

]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130344/ http://chronicle.com/article/An-English-Professor-Explores/130344/ The Chronicle talks with Margot Mifflin about "The Blue Tattoo," her book about a pioneer woman who inspired a character in a new AMC western.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130347/ http://chronicle.com/article/FatherDaughter-Both/130347/ "Those two days leading up to the top were the two toughest days of my life," says the father, a business professor at Stetson U.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130343/ http://chronicle.com/article/Birmingham-Southerns-New/130343/ Fortunately for the college, Ed Hand likes a challenge: He has to win the confidence of potential donors following a period of mismanagement.

]]> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130248/ http://chronicle.com/article/Expert-on-Access-Becomes/130248/ Donald Heller, who directed Penn State's Center for the Study of Higher Education, was sought for his research on low-income students and his technical skills.

]]> Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130177/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Saga-of-Damaged-Arta/130177/ When a painting called "Falling Down Man" arrived at the post office bent and cracked, Paul Studtmann thought its sorry state might actually enhance its value.

]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130182/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Political-Science-Professor/130182/ Josh Putnam writes Frontloading HQ, a blog about the process of moving primaries and caucuses earlier in the year.

]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130181/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Lawyer-Takes-an-Uncommon/130181/ Jonathan Alger, general counsel of Rutgers University and an expert in higher-education law, will become the president of James Madison University in July.

]]> Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/130075/ http://chronicle.com/article/5-Minutes-With-a-Byron-Thomas/130075/ "When I see that symbol," says Byron Thomas, at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort, "it's Southern pride to me."

]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129988/ http://chronicle.com/article/Antiochs-Chancellor-to/129988/ Toni Murdock, who was resolute in the face of objections from the alumni of Antioch College, strengthened the financial position of the university.

]]> Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129897/ http://chronicle.com/article/Daniel-Greenberg-an-MBA/129897/ Daniel Greenberg learned that security is paramount when he helped create a marketing strategy for a lending program to serve low-income residents of Iraq.

]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129900/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-One-Doctoral-Candidate-a/129900/ After a car crash killed a Ph.D. student and her husband, colleagues finished her thesis so she could receive a posthumous degree.

]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129898/ http://chronicle.com/article/Institute-for-Advanced-Studys/129898/ The new director of the Institute for Advanced Study is the Dutch theoretical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, who has created a physics Web site for children.

]]> Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129825/ http://chronicle.com/article/5-Minutes-With-Jacqueline/129825/ The Baruch College professor has helped organize the movement and talks about its future.

]]> Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:01:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129776/ http://chronicle.com/article/Remembering-Morris-Philipson/129776/ The press Mr. Philipson ran reflected his taste and judgment, high standards, and attention to detail. He dealt with his writers as equals.

]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:30:00 EST http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/129646/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-High-Flying-Professors-Pet/129646/ An adjunct professor of engineering at George Mason University flies with Pilots N Paws to save dogs that are scheduled to die.

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