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Dr. Ray Jayawardhana Appointed Provost of Johns Hopkins University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ray Jayawardhana Jayawardhana is currently dean of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He previously served as dean of science and professor of physics and astronomy at York University in Canada and senior adviser to the president for science engagement at the University of Toronto. "Dr.

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Ohio State Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eight scientists at The Ohio State University have been elected to the 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. I am pleased to see these creative thinkers receive well-deserved recognition for their research and service from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.” Dr. James L.

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Institute Uses AI to Promote Equity in STEM Education

Insight Into Diversity

The Inclusive Intelligent Technologies for Education (INVITE) Institute uses AI (artificial intelligence) technologies to make STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education more equitable in K-12 schools. The national center serves as a nexus poised to answer the question “What can AI do to help achieve education for all?”

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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Schelling won the 2005 Nobel Prize in economic sciences with Robert J. The first refers to the course of studies in medieval universities comprising the trivium—the three arts of the humanities (grammar, logic and rhetoric), and the quadrivium (arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and music).

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In spring 2022, the National Science Foundation awarded $1.5 Available data suggest that the nation’s faculty are less diverse than relevant comparison groups in terms of socioeconomic status. But these data now describe faculty members working at colleges and universities nearly 20 years ago. What Do We Do?

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If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?

The Guardian - Higher Education

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with their powerful telescopes, they spot something that makes them gasp.

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Letter from Samarkand

HESA

And universities there tend not to have a lot of research facilities because – as was true in pretty much all the Soviet Republics – most of the money for labs went to the Academy of Sciences, which sit outside the university system. It’s past higher education – literally six hundred years in the past – which is possibly more interesting.