At the DealBook Summit, seven sports stars and experts discussed how building a brand as an athlete has changed.
The decision to withdraw the regulations seemed to be an acknowledgment that they would go nowhere under the Trump administration.
A freshman at George Mason University, who is a citizen of Egypt, was arrested on Tuesday after being accused of planning an attack.
The Rhode Island School of Design uses recipes to teach the trial-and-error process of tweaking and refining a product.
The conference’s eight schools will be able to participate in the Football Championship Subdivision’s 24-team playoff.
The year brought not only an increase in volume, but severe storms in the U.S. also caused $46 billion in damage, among the highest costs on record.
La paciente, Towana Looney, gozaba de mejor salud que los pacientes anteriores que habían recibido órganos porcinos. Su caso podría indicar un avance hacia la solución de la escasez de órganos.
David Bowie loved its couscous. Norman Reedus hung out there. It put avocado toast on the map. Thirty years later, and with a new book honoring it, Cafe Gitane is drawing a fresh crowd.
With the industry’s popularity on the rise, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to discuss its effect on athletes, the public and the integrity of games.
The schools were accused of giving special treatment to wealthy students who might not otherwise have been admitted.
The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.
The artist Dennis Maher — who rescued his Buffalo, N.Y., home from the brink of destruction — has always treasured what others have overlooked.
An eminent geologist, he argued against putting condos and hotels on vulnerable coastal landscapes. Environmentalists applauded; many others didn’t.
La rivalidad entre el actual presidente Luis Arce y el expresidente Evo Morales ha ocasionado bloqueos que han afectado la circulación de productos de primera necesidad en el país.
Protests in Bolivia triggered by a feud between the president and a political rival have caused turmoil. One fallout: fuel shortages that have left drivers lining up for gas for days.
For many remote communities in the sparsely populated nation, Canada Post is the only parcel delivery option. Even Amazon relies on it.
Dialogue is an essential part of college. As anger over the war in the Middle East has brought upheaval to campuses, it has also become a key way schools try to reduce conflict.
Chapel Hill has embraced North Carolina’s hiring of a legendary N.F.L. coach, with “Chapel Bill” shirts and cutoff hoodies.
The official, an administrator of multicultural programs, was accused of making antisemitic remarks in a conversation. Her lawyer said that the school fired her this week, and vowed to sue.
The lawsuit was the latest in a series by a prominent anti-affirmative action group that is seeking to overturn the use of racial preferences in the nation’s military academies.
As a Jewish teen, he fled the Nazis for America — then landed at D-Day and swept across Europe in a unit that gathered intelligence. Its work was hidden for decades.
Lo más probable es que tu hijo ya haya visto pornografía en internet. Tu papel es abordarla abiertamente, dicen los expertos.
Harvard, Penn y Cornell fueron algunas de las instituciones que advirtieron de posibles prohibiciones de viajar una vez iniciado el siguiente gobierno.
Más adolescentes que nunca la ven. Lo que hace falta, dicen quienes investigan sobre el tema, son conversaciones francas y “alfabetización pornográfica”.
Forty years after his death, the Californian activist Peter Carr gets a revival of his acerbic paintings and drawings. To make it happen, his protégé spent both labor and love.
More adolescents than ever are watching it. What’s needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and “porn literacy.”
South Coast Repertory, a California company he founded with a partner, grew to stage world premieres of major works that made their way to Broadway.
Harvard, Penn and U.S.C. were among the universities and colleges that issued advisories in anticipation of possible travel bans.
A task force at the DealBook Summit discussed how from college to pro sports, becoming a brand is a challenge.
No structures were damaged and no one was injured, but students spent a frantic night sheltering in place as thousands of nearby residents evacuated.
Hate crime charges against at least 12 of the 15 Maryland students accused of assaulting a person because of his sexual orientation have been dismissed, court records show. They still face misdemeanor counts.
About 3,000 people sheltered on the university’s campus in Malibu, Calif., overnight on Monday. Some of them watched the flames through the windows of a library.
Four Palestinian researchers describe how conflict in Gaza and the West Bank has hindered their careers in science and medicine.
Mangione creció en Maryland, se graduó en una escuela secundaria privada de Baltimore y estudió en la Universidad de Pensilvania.
Luigi Mangione was passionate about game development and programming from a young age, teaching himself to code in high school.
Luigi Mangione was arrested after a tip from a McDonald’s in Altoona. On Monday night, Manhattan prosecutors charged him with murder.
He grew up in Maryland, graduated from a private high school in Baltimore and went on to the University of Pennsylvania.
Conservative justices voiced objections and concerns about the court’s failures to take up a series of cases on major social controversies.
Forrest Meggers, a professor at Princeton University, has turned his home into a live-in laboratory that pushes the boundaries of sustainability.
Dozens of schools say they provide free tuition to students whose families earn under a certain income. How does it work?
He may have been the most successful diving coach in American history, gathering more than 300 medals in competitions and nurturing stars like Greg Louganis.
A group that successfully challenged affirmative action at the Supreme Court had also sued the military academies. But, the judge said, “the U.S. Naval Academy is distinct from a civilian university.”
The school, a bastion of D.E.I., will no longer require the statements in hiring decisions and is considering a broader shift in its policies.
In her cityscapes, a visionary Manhattan painter created delicate registers of light and shadow, and bravura expressions of abstraction and figuration.
He came up with an innovative equation called the Ricci flow that helped mathematicians explore fundamental questions that were once out of reach.
The early coercive pressures applied by Trump loyalists are a taste of what is to come.
The school is one of higher education’s biggest supporters of D.E.I. Now it’s considering a new approach as critics question the program’s success and impact on campus life.
The Supreme Court is hearing a legal challenge on Wednesday to the state’s ban on several forms of medical care for transgender youth.
Había sido aclamado por los medios de comunicación estatales chinos como un modelo por sus esfuerzos para promover los intereses de Pekín en Estados Unidos. En realidad, era un informante del FBI.
Yale researchers traced hundreds of children taken to Russia in the war, finding what they described as “a higher level of crime than first understood.”
He had been hailed by Chinese state media as a model for his efforts to promote Beijing’s interests in the United States. He was in fact an F.B.I. informant.
OneGoal is a resource for students who are entering college without the benefits of family wealth.
A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that also included “lore,” “demure” and “slop.”
Criminals turn college campuses into recruitment hubs, recruiting chemistry students in Mexico with big paydays.
The San Jose State women’s team, which has a transgender player, lost to the tournament favorite Colorado State, concluding a season that transcended sports.
En una zona del noreste de la capital donde conviven la pobreza y la riqueza, muchos votantes se sienten frustrados por el statu quo.
The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, “The Serviceberry,” she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a commodity.
Not since the swimmer Lia Thomas has a college athlete or team put the fiercely contested issue of transgender rights in sports under such a bright spotlight.
Linda McMahon, whose résumé mainly rests on running World Wrestling Entertainment, has faced questions for years over whether she is suitable for important education posts.
The women’s volleyball team at the center of a national debate over gender and sports advanced to the conference championship after Boise State refused to play.
The state is one of at least a dozen states to set restrictions on bathrooms for transgender students at public schools.
Mr. Hague, a former leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, was chosen in a vote by his fellow alumni to lead the elite university.
B.Y.U.’s cross-country runners went old school and coated their bodies for a cold race day.
An N.Y.U. researcher found that the No. 1 stations in Washington Heights are especially unhealthy. The M.T.A. doesn’t agree.
Scientists study the flight of hummingbirds to design robots for drone warfare.
A federal judge ruled that the player, who is at the center of a controversy over transgender athletes, can participate in a women’s volleyball conference tournament this week.
Stricter rules and punishments over campus protests seem to be working. Universities have seen just under 950 protest events this semester, compared with 3,000 in the spring.
Jessica Tisch, the sanitation commissioner, is moving to the Police Department. Will Eric Adams let her really be in charge?
The 20-year-old student died this summer after attending an off-campus party. The fraternity members and sorority were charged with offenses related to providing alcohol to minors.
The rollout of the new student aid form last year was a debacle. This year’s beta testing has gone better. Next up: millions of users and a new administration.
While Ms. Bondi, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for attorney general, served as attorney general of Florida, her office declined to investigate allegations of fraud against his for-profit school.
For students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year, the school will also cover other costs, including housing, dining, fees and an allowance for books and personal expenses.
El presidente electo Donald Trump citó repetidamente el caso de Riley en su campaña a favor de la deportación masiva de millones de personas indocumentadas.
In Japanese mythology, the deep-sea-dwelling oarfish is a harbinger of impending disaster. For scientists in California, where three oarfish have washed up in recent months, it’s an exciting find.
Readers respond to a guest essay by a recent college graduate. Also: New York City’s new outdoor dining program; how immigrants built America.
A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science.
Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
According to a think tank’s analysis, another private college would attract the young talent that helps the city’s economy.
Two readers call for more federal funding for care of the sick and the elderly. Also: Data on drivers; Covid lessons; diversity in college admissions.
People with long Covid symptoms scored slightly lower on a cognitive test than people who had recovered. But long Covid patients who eventually got better scored as well as those whose symptoms did not last long.
In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients.
Officials said some services would be transferred from University Hospital at Downstate to nearby facilities, and others, including primary care, could be expanded.
A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.
The surge in offerings is a response to the pandemic, which revealed glaring income inequality, as well as inflation and the resumption of student loan payments, an expert said.
Scientists doing “gain-of-function” research said that heightened fears of lab leaks are stalling studies that could thwart the next pandemic virus.
Readers react to a guest essay by educators at Stanford. Also: The new Senate dress code; Ron DeSantis and vaccines.
Readers discuss the decline in theater subscribers after the pandemic. Also: Northern Ireland; food allergies; a Covid playmate; anti-China bias.
Pulse oximeters measuring oxygen in the blood often inflated the levels for dark-skinned Covid patients, who then experienced delayed care or an increased risk of hospital readmission, researchers found.
Over the years, Mr. DeSantis embraced and exploited his Ivy League credentials. Now he is reframing his experiences at Yale and Harvard to wage a vengeful political war.
Dr. Fauci was the federal government’s top infectious disease expert for decades, and helped steer the U.S. response to Covid-19.
Dr. Jha, who oversaw the Biden administration’s pandemic response as it wound down, will return to his post as dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.
The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.
Dr. Franklin and giving credit to women for their scientific contributions. Also: New College of Florida; Black unemployment; housing solutions; Covid risks.
Moderna has paid $400 million to the government for a chemical technique key to its vaccine. But the parties are still locked in a high-stakes dispute over a different patent.
Most Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when a writer immersed himself in a Covid oral-history project, he realized how much we’re still missing.
Readers react to an editorial urging employers to consider skills and experience, not just degrees. Also: Long Covid; Trump, RINO; online romance scams.
Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up.
Dr. David A. Kessler took over Operation Warp Speed when President Biden entered office, and his departure signals the end of the program.
Family members and health care workers should take precautions, experts said.
We are going about education reform all wrong.
A sluggish economy continues to leave many young people unemployed, with few job prospects or hopes to tap into the rising incomes their parents enjoyed during boom times.
Plus, Iran abolishes the morality police and Russia vows to defy an oil price cap.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
In a country where protests are swiftly quashed, many who gathered to voice their discontent — under the watchful eye of the police — were uncertain about how far to go.
In a country where the authorities have little tolerance for open dissent, demonstrators against Covid restrictions have turned to more subtle methods.
Hospital-at-home care is an increasingly common option, and it is often a safer one for older adults. But the future of the approach depends on federal action.
For decades, smaller “safety net” hospitals like Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, in Brooklyn, have been losing money and are under pressure to close. But the pandemic has shown just how needed they are.
El coronavirus lleva dos años perturbando la vida social. Un estudio reciente sugiere que ahora somos menos extrovertidos, creativos, afables y meticulosos, sobre todo los jóvenes.
Students missed a lot of high school instruction. Now many are behind, especially in math, and getting that degree could be harder.
For more than two years, Covid disrupted social rituals and rites of passage. Now a recent study suggests we have become less extroverted, creative, agreeable and conscientious. The declines in some traits were sharper among young people.
Mouse experiments at Boston University have spotlighted an ambiguous U.S. policy for research on potentially dangerous pathogens.
She was budget director in Albany and “was one of the unsung heroes” in helping to shape the pandemic response as a deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
Maitland Jones, un profesor respetado, defendió sus estándares. Pero los estudiantes hicieron un reclamo y la universidad lo despidió.
Maitland Jones Jr., a respected professor, defended his standards. But students started a petition, and the university dismissed him.
While no definitive statistics exist, doctors say Mr. Lewitinn, a retired Manhattan store owner, likely remained on the device longer than any other Covid patient.
A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student’s bedroom, a practice that has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
For an article on wastewater disease surveillance, Times journalists descended underground to look inside a New York City sewage pipe.
Según los expertos, los niños no tienen riesgo alto de infección. Pero ofrecen consejos para cuidar a todos en el regreso a clases, desde los más pequeños hasta los universitarios.
En Inglaterra, unos artistas encendieron una estructura en llamas. En la costa de Jersey, se grabaron nombres en conchas y rocas. Con más de seis millones de muertos, los monumentos conmemorativos han ido evolucionando.
Experts say children are not at a high risk of infection. But they have advice to keep everyone — from toddlers to college kids — safe.
Here’s how a scrappy team of scientists, public health experts and plumbers is embracing wastewater surveillance as the future of disease tracking.
In Britain, artists lit a structure aflame. At the Jersey Shore, names were carved on shells and rocks. With more than six million dead, memorials have evolved along the way.
Russia looks to Africa.
Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh parses what research has illuminated about long Covid, and what questions remain.
Jonathan Malesic responds to readers concerned about the breakdown in college students’ learning since Covid.
A generation of students may be weighing the value of college versus its cost, questioning whether college is still the ticket to the middle class.
The moves are a sign that while the academic year may be coming to a close, the pandemic is still not.
Readers discuss the current malaise among many college students. Also: The Oklahoma abortion ban; stopping gun violence; remote work and the climate.
Plus climate’s role in Australia’s upcoming election and a Covid-19 protest at Peking University.
The prime minister’s rules kept transmission at bay for two years, and by the time the highly infectious Omicron variant hit, the vast majority of New Zealand’s population had been vaccinated.
Readers ponder an impending horrible milestone. Also: Grief in our times; college debt; policies and public opinion; students’ letters.
Late assignments, failed tests, sleeping in class: Welcome to the pandemic-era university.
The predominantly Black college in Illinois will cease operations Friday after 157 years, having failed to raise millions to recover from the pandemic and a cyberattack that originated in Iran.