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New York City Embraces a College's New 'Handicapped' Symbol
With the Gordon College campus as his test lab, Brian Glenney, a philosopher, helped develop the new, more active image.
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Opening a New Window Into Hemingway's Life, and U.S.-Cuba Ties
An American foundation and the Cuban government are working together to preserve the villa near Havana where the author lived for more than 20 years.
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Prominent Scholar Was Banned From Rutgers Campus
A dispute involving an evolutionary theorist escalated from claims of fraud to accusations of violent behavior.
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A Trove of Darwin's Correspondence Is Published Online
Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker exchanged some 1,200 letters over the course of 40 years. Now the correspondence is available online.
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UMass Graduate Student Talks About Economists' Mistake That Made Austerity a Policy
Thomas Herndon is the talk of economics after demonstrating flaws in a hugely influential 2010 journal article.
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Biologists and Humanities Scholars Break the Code on Digital Partnerships
A recent symposium brought together researchers in the digital humanities with scientists from the data-heavy trenches of computational biology.
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Sale to Elsevier Casts Doubt on Mendeley's Openness
The acquisition of the popular reference-management and PDF-organizer platform has spurred skepticism among its 2.3 million users.
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Scholars Increasingly Use Online Resources but Value Traditional Formats Too
For publishing their own research, faculty members still seek out journals with the highest prestige, regardless of format, a survey finds.
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In Departure, Jefferson Lecture Honors a Master of the 'Language of Cinema'
In his talk, Martin Scorsese links verbal and visual literacy. He calls for treating our film heritage "as reverently as every last book in the Library of Congress."
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The White House 'Nudger' Is Back on Campus
Cass Sunstein, former regulatory czar, is teaching "Inside Government" at Harvard with Lawrence Summers, and has written a memoir of his time in the Obama administration.
