Mr. Brooks, a hard-right representative, seems to be making an unlikely comeback in a Senate race in which the Trump endorsement may not determine votes of Trump supporters.
Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased.
Student loan debt is an albatross around the Democrats’ neck.
A look at all the vaccines that have reached trials in humans.
The virus has infected more than 29,855,400 people and has been detected in nearly every country.
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Lisa French had never agreed to pay the full price when she signed service agreements with a hospital.
Thanks to Beyoncé, Ralph Lauren and hit shows like “All American: Homecoming,” depictions of Black campus life have moved from “A Different World” to center stage.
Millions of Americans take aspirin to prevent a first heart attack or stroke. Now, doctors are advising against it — especially for people over 70.
Ryan McCarty and Yacob Yonas square up with an assertive Saturday puzzle.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
When “Woman-Ochre” goes on view at the Getty Museum after its conservation, the painting will have a new mystique. But competing interpretations remain.
Amiri Nash charts the Black experience with a new student journal
Joshua Katz says he was targeted because of his criticism of a campus protest group. A university report says the concerns are related to his inappropriate conduct with a female student.
An arbitrator found that the University of Central Florida failed to show “just cause” last year when it fired Charles Negy, a tenured professor whose comments generated outrage on campus.
A defector to the U.S., he was admired for his prowess in the Russian repertory, but his individualistic approach “was not for everyone — or for all repertoire.”
The museum named Colette Pierce Burnette president and chief executive. Last year, its president resigned after a job posting described the institution’s “core” audience as white.
The choreographer Abby Zbikowski brings her raw, genre-bending “Radioactive Practice” to New York Live Arts after a two-year delay.
Prince Charles will make a three day tour of the country, where polls suggest there’s little support for the monarchy — but amending Canada’s Constitution is difficult.
Biden’s $10,000 in relief isn’t enough.
In “Who Killed Jane Stanford?” Richard White takes on a 1905 murder — and seamy cover-up — that has fascinated scholars for generations.
New treatments aim for a gene variant causing the illness in people of sub-Saharan African descent. Some experts worry that focus will neglect other factors.
Plus climate’s role in Australia’s upcoming election and a Covid-19 protest at Peking University.
The magazine, bought by a marketing company, briefly hosted clickbait content. Scandal ensued. After a flurry of negotiation, it is now back with its first publisher, McSweeney’s.
A Supreme Court ruling and changes in college sports have given momentum to a lawsuit accusing the N.C.A.A. of violating federal minimum-wage laws by refusing to pay athletes like employees.
Raised in North Dakota and rural Illinois, he was a literary star in New York City in the 1970s. But he left the limelight to raise a family on a North Dakota farm.
Debt forgiveness won’t fix what’s wrong with higher education.
New York University graduates will be rewarded with a commencement speech from the pop star, who is being awarded an honorary degree.
Simon Kuper has written a book that captures Boris Johnson and other future Conservative politicians when they were ambitious and misbehaving undergrads, planning their rise to power.
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.
The law enforcement stop and search of the Delaware State women’s lacrosse team bus recalls experiences our columnist had while traveling as a pro tennis player.
After their first meetup in January 2019, Pooja Chatterjee and Sandeep Kumar knew that they wanted to pursue a relationship.
A $50 million agreement by Nelson Partners over a high-rise near the University of Texas may force it to sell interests in other properties.
The lawyer argued that mail ballots in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election could be culled in a way that would reverse President Donald J. Trump’s defeat in an electorally critical state.
The bus of the women’s lacrosse team was pulled over last month by Georgia sheriff’s deputies and searched by a drug-sniffing dog. Delaware officials called video of the search “disturbing.”
The start-up has had a meteoric rise, thanks to its charismatic co-founder, Ryan Breslow. But he sometimes stretched the truth to get there.
With the debate over students loans, are we trying to confirm the stereotype that Democrats serve the needs of educated elites and ignore everyone else?
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.
En su nuevo libro, la neurocientífica Stephanie Cacioppo indaga en el romance, la pérdida y la conexión humana mientras relata su propia historia de amor.
Rallies in Houston and Chicago were among numerous events planned across the country.
Officials said the fake pills could contain fentanyl. Two Ohio State University students died this week in what the police said were apparent overdoses.
Researchers using 3-D technology brought to light an array of art in an Alabama cave, including a serpent, flying creatures and humanoid figures in regalia.
Charles W. Herbster’s bid for governor has set off a bitter fight for power in a state once known for its genteel politics.
The 23-year-old won 23 games in a row. Her personal style has helped make her a star.
A committee within the A.B.A. has recommended that law schools stop requiring standardized tests like the LSAT as part of their admissions process.
She argued before the Supreme Court six times representing New York State, took on civil rights cases for the N.A.A.C.P. and taught at Fordham for decades.
America’s social mobility machine is broken.
The patient showed no sign of rejecting the genetically modified organ, but suffered numerous complications before dying.
He delved into numerous scientific fields — stem-cell research, genetic modification of food and DNA privacy among them — and sought to pinpoint the dangers.
Can business schools really help to “reimagine capitalism”?
Worsening wildfires in recent years have led officials to embrace planned fires to thin forests before disaster strikes. But the warming world is making it tougher to do safely.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
The billionaire venture capitalist said the study of climate change and sustainability would be the “new computer science.”
He published Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs in the late 1950s. The university that oversaw his journal was not pleased with the “Naked Lunch” excerpt.
Dr. David Sabatini is no longer in the running for a faculty position at New York University’s medical school. News of his potential hiring had sparked a protest.
The baseball team at Gaston College in Dallas, N.C., is in its first season and owes its quick rise to former Division I players whose circumstances changed because of the pandemic.
“If we just focus on this generation’s political style,” says political theorist Wendy Brown, “we ignore their rage at the world they’ve inherited.”
The men were set to graduate from the Royal Military College in a few weeks, the authorities said.
They were returning from Kansas after pursuing a storm, officials said, when their car was pinned by a truck.
Graduates can’t repay their loans if they don’t learn anything useful in school.
College debtors aren’t a privileged class.
Contrary to popular belief, the ruling classes gorged on meat only on rare occasions, according to an analysis of more than 2,000 skeletons buried during medieval times.
President Biden said the amount would not be $50,000 per borrower, which some Democrats and advocates are pushing for as a way to address economic and racial disparities.
In a new report, the group says that the Republicans created a hostile climate on campuses. The administration called the charges absurd.
Since the Great Recession, the college-educated have taken more frontline jobs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon. Now they’re helping to unionize them.
A walkout at New York University’s medical school was held to protest the possible hiring of Dr. David Sabatini, who has been accused of sexual misconduct.
The N.C.A.A. is looking for a new president. Private jet notwithstanding, it’s not all that great of a gig.
Health experts say that people in the hot spot, which includes cities like Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, should be increasing their precautions.
In 1970, Michael James Brody Jr. announced he would give away his fortune to anyone who asked. The letters he received are a time capsule of the setting of the Age of Aquarius.
Arising from one man’s collection, the Ogden Museum strives to serve a broad audience while showing that Southern art is not merely regional.
Emmert and the N.C.A.A.’s Board of Governors said they made a mutual decision for him to step aside next year as the top administrator in college sports.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Harvard University issued a 134-page report investigating its ties to slavery, and its legacy. Here are the key findings.
The university is committing $100 million for an endowed “Legacy of Slavery Fund.” Its report carefully avoided treading on direct financial reparations for descendants of enslaved people.
The business executives John B. Wilson and Gamal Abdelaziz each received a long sentence, but in appeals, their lawyers say the key claim against them is legally flawed.
Dr. Rachel Hardeman hopes to inspire others to think bigger about the link, and in turn, solutions that protect both mothers and babies. It isn’t an easy mission.
The dress worn by Judy Garland was given to a priest at the Catholic University of America in 1973, but had been missing for decades when it was found in a shoe box last year.
Through more than three decades of research, the Yale psychologist Becca Levy has demonstrated that age discrimination can take years off one’s life.
And why it doesn’t have to be like this.
An invasive spider the size of a human palm could soon spread from Georgia throughout the East Coast.
Two new studies say the virus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019.
President Biden said he would nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Here’s a quick look at her biography.
Read the official rules to the Modern Love column’s sixth college essay contest.
They pioneered a theory for our messy emotional lives.
When he stopped trying to fix the world, it left some leftists feeling pretty irritated.
More than 100 students from the American University of Afghanistan fled the Taliban and are now studying in Iraq.
“I love an old-fashioned vulgar joke.”
“It is irrational to interpret a number of crises occurring at the same time as signs that we’re doomed.”
Interest rates on federal student loans for the coming academic year will rise nearly a percentage point on July 1.
Stanford, Connecticut, South Carolina and N.C. State are the top seeds in the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament.
Gonzaga, Baylor, Illinois and Michigan are the top seeds in the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament.
The three days last March that changed sports.
Un adenovirus ayuda a preparar el sistema inmune para combatir el coronavirus.
Coronavirus cases continue to climb steadily at colleges, a New York Times survey has found. Some schools have announced vaccine requirements for students returning in the fall.
How the coronavirus spread across the United States.
Readers discuss the importance of gifts from MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos.
A stern disciplinarian with a white towel on his shoulder, he made Georgetown’s basketball team champions.
An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.
Catherine Volcy, like college students across America, is studying from home. She is aching to talk in person with her peers and professors about this tumultuous year.
A look at all the vaccines that have reached trials in humans.
President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. debated for the first time, with Chris Wallace of Fox News moderating. Watch the full video with our fact-checks and analysis.
College campuses, like the rest of the country, are enduring a coronavirus surge.
Expect increased pressure on other teams to change their nicknames and logos, including the Braves, Indians and Chiefs.
Immediate steps to limit social contact in parts of the United States where few cases have been identified are needed to slow the outbreak, a model suggests.
Here is a growing list of public and private schools, as well as colleges and universities, that have suspended or altered classes in the local effort to curb the outbreak.
A star at Michigan State, he was the No. 2 pick in the 2003 N.F.L. draft. But his pro career was undone by drug use.
A mother decides to accept her son’s life choices. Also: The meaning in the clothes of a deceased love one; Trump voters’ values.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette and more than 20 universities license their own brands of beer. Those deals seem like no-brainers, but they come as the N.C.A.A. grapples with letting athletes strike their own.
Members of the Chi Phi fraternity were believed to be present at an off-campus house — not the fraternity’s official house — where a 17-year-old went into cardiac arrest and died on Saturday, the university said.
Members of the class of 2019 share the inspiration behind their decorated mortarboards.
Dr. Peter Hotez has devoted his career to making vaccines more widely available. He routinely gets attacked for it.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told the Harvard graduates of 2019 to be “outward looking, not isolationist,” and not “describe lies as truth and truth as lies.”
More than 200 university students and employees in Los Angeles County may have been exposed to measles and were given quarantine orders this week.
Liars and thieves should not be allowed to detract from legitimate scientific research that has made umbilical cord blood mystic in its regenerative powers.
A South Carolina student was murdered after getting into a car she mistook for her Uber, underscoring the safety risks of ride-hailing apps.
Stanford is investigating Stephen Quake’s interactions with He Jiankui, the scientist who performed the controversial experiment.
The word, which means “adorned fathomless dark creation,” is derived from the Kumulipo, a centuries-old Hawaiian creation chant, said a professor who helped with the naming.
The voices of young people with different views of social justice are pushing the Mormon Church to modernize.
As the first woman and first person of color to lead the Newhouse School at Syracuse, she helped students and faculty embrace the future — and diversity.