by Evelyn Beck IN VIRTUAL SCIENCE labs, students can handle dangerous poisons, analyze raging rivers, and conduct experiments in evolution-activities otherwise impossible for most college students. “The on-line labs were designed to provide a laboratory experience in situations where it is not feasible to do a...
by Karen Young Kreeger SO YOU LOVE to teach. Now that the school year is in full swing, are you wondering how you can contribute more to the next generation,.
by Douglas Steinberg AT A MEETING right after Labor Day, Princeton University’s molecular biology department surveyed the plans of its recently graduated seniors, and professor Shirley M. Tilghman wasn’t happy.
by Marla Houghteling DR. MALCOLM DUNCAN saw his career as a theoretical physicist die along with the demise of a big machine – the SSC, the Superconducting Supercollider. It was while he was associate professor of physics at the University of Iowa in 1993 that he decided...
by Susan Mitchell WHAT’S THE STATE of art today? Among educated Americans, it’s looking pretty good. While 37 percent of all Americans visited a museum in 1998, a whopping 71 percent.
by Phyllis M. Frakt and James O. Castagnera Phyllis M. Frakt is vicepresident for academic affairs and provost at Rider University. James O. Castagnerais associate vice president for academic affairs and.
by P.D. Lesko BY NOW, BOBBY KNIGHT has pretty much completed the talk show circuit. He answered the same 10 questions a thousand times over. I do have one question, though. What’s Indiana going to do for Murray Sperber now that he has decided to return to...
by Brian Caterino THE POLITICS OF the Internet often defy conventional classification. Take the Napster dispute. Supporting the large media conglomerates is the heavy-metal rock group Metallica. They oppose free music distribution because it.
by Lee Shainen HAVE YOU EVER participated in a hiring process that was disbanded for lack of a diverse candidate pool? I have. It is enormously frustrating for everyone involved. The.
by Laurie Henry WHO KNOWS WHAT goes on in other people’s classes? At other jobs where there are a whole lot of people in one place doing more or the less the same thing, it’s not hard to know what everyone’s up to. On the other hand, teaching...
