A video of Alexander McNab being pinned down by security officers is adding to a broader conversation about how students of color are treated at one of the nation’s most prominent universities.
Ms. Haspel, the C.I.A. director, was confronted during a speech by a man shouting about her role in torturing suspected militants in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Two new studies confirm that weight control is often the result of genetics, not willpower.
Liars and thieves should not be allowed to detract from legitimate scientific research that has made umbilical cord blood mystic in its regenerative powers.
“I own this thing,” Alan Detrich recalled telling a museum director. “It is mine. I can do whatever I want.”
Psychologists find that story time can build the strong relationships they need for healthy development.
In a study that upends assumptions about brain death, researchers brought some cells back to life — or something like it.
Prosecutors plan to argue that Ms. Huffman’s part in the college admissions scheme fits a sentencing guideline of four to 10 months of incarceration.
Stephen Quake and two colleagues were found to have followed proper scientific protocol in their interactions with the Chinese researcher who did the work.
Workers were making repairs to the roof of Notre Dame on a fine April day. A fire broke out, too high to be quickly doused with water. That happened 140 years ago, in Indiana.
A South Carolina student was murdered after getting into a car she mistook for her Uber, underscoring the safety risks of ride-hailing apps.
Political journalists gathered in Chicago to discuss the mistakes of 2016 and how to avoid them the next time around.
Mr. Biden once called Fritz Hollings his best friend in the Senate, strengthening his connection to the state, which is pivotal in the Democratic primary.
The Trump administration bars a critic of Israel from America.
Before the presidential vote this week, Indonesian candidates are polishing their religious credentials to appeal to a growing conservative populace.
A 22-year-old senior died Sunday evening, hours after falling from a tower known to attract thrill-seeking students at the university’s Bronx campus.
Ms. Monfries, a 22-year-old senior, died Sunday evening, hours after falling from a tower known to attract thrill-seeking students at the university’s Bronx campus.
The policy, which was announced on Saturday, will continue to ban from enrollment women anyone who identifies as a woman.
An 18-year-old student, Sebastian Serafin-Bazan, ended up in critical condition at an area hospital after going into cardiac arrest.
An 18-year-old student, Sebastian Serafin-Bazan, ended up in critical condition at an area hospital after going into cardiac arrest.
In his writings as a student and young politician, he fixated on the kind of media narratives that have propelled his 2020 campaign.
Stanford is investigating Stephen Quake’s interactions with He Jiankui, the scientist who performed the controversial experiment.
A pilot study offers “a very promising start” in the effort to help people recover from traumatic brain injuries.
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.
George Crumb at 90, the opening of the Shed, and a new album of David Sanford's music were among the highlights.
Whether he was writing a Restoration period biography or a book on war poetry, his background in music informed his approach.
The voices of young people with different views of social justice are pushing the Mormon Church to modernize.
In older patients, rigorous lowering of blood sugar may offer few benefits and pose unexpected risks.
He favored high standards for college applicants and programs to help minority students meet those standards. Earlier he had helped revive Spelman College.
An All-Pro on championship teams and a Hall of Famer, he powered Green Bay’s turf-churning “sweep.” He was later a head coach of three N.F.L. teams.
Killings at the hand of a partner rose by 19 percent from 2014 to 2017, with gun violence a driving factor, researchers at Northeastern University found.
The university’s students voted to pay a bit more tuition each semester to create a fund to benefit the descendants of slaves the school once owned.
Students voted to pay a bit more tuition each semester to create a fund to benefit the descendants of slaves that were sold to keep the school afloat.
College visits can be a chance for parents to start thinking of their kids in a more grown-up light.
The College Board said it would crack down on requests from students to take tests at schools other than their own.
The College Board said it would crack down on requests from students to take tests at schools other than their own.
In a struggling neighborhood with a vibrant history, Titus Kaphar found a home for himself. Now he’s creating a center there to nurture emerging artists.
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.
Manufacturers like the Carrier Corporation abandoned Syracuse ages ago. So the locals turned to each other for strength amid the chaos.
The economist N. Gregory Mankiw says he loves the central bank but fears for its future as one of America’s great institutions.
The poll, conducted by Monmouth University, also indicated that support for Mayor Pete Buttigieg is on the rise.
Led by the star defenseman Cale Makar and Coach Greg Carvel, the Minutemen are in the national semifinals for the first time.
Among the dozens of parents swept up in the college admissions case were two Hollywood actresses. Their stories are very different.
A woman who accused three basketball players and sued the university speaks publicly about her case for the first time.
A woman who accused three basketball players and sued the university speaks publicly about her case for the first time.
A charismatic and well-pedigreed contestant, he confessed to Congress that his ballyhooed TV performances in the 1950s had been scandalously rigged.
Astronomers at last have captured a picture of one of the most secretive entities in the cosmos.
The university made the decision as part of an agreement resolving a 14-year investigation by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
Federal prosecutors indicted the actress and her husband, the designer Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents on mail fraud and money laundering charges on Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors indicted the actress and her husband, the designer Mossimo Giannulli, as well as other parents on mail fraud and money laundering charges on Tuesday.
The memorial was defaced with racial slurs and urine.
Individuals can change the way we see.
The founder of a nonprofit discusses inequities in public education.
Ms. Huffman is the best-known figure to admit wrongdoing in the investigation, which found faked test scores, phony athletic credentials and big payments.
Ms. Huffman is the best-known figure to admit wrongdoing in the investigation, which found faked test scores, phony athletic credentials and big payments.
A noninvasive technique shows promise in improving the working memory of older adults. But, the scientists note, “Do not try this at home!”
For Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the Abel Prize for math, a whimsical phenomenon offers a window onto higher dimensions.
College athletes, who have had to settle for hollow victories in court, have the leverage to overhaul a system of sham amateurism and reap their share of the riches they bring.
Readers discuss an article tracing the lives of some black students who were admitted to Columbia in 1969.
The Education Department failed to approve a single application for student loan relief in the second half of last year, according to new data, defying court orders.
The inquiry comes as universities around the country are embroiled in a sweeping admissions scandal.
Gordon Caplan, a former co-chairman of the firm Willkie Farr, was charged with paying $75,000 to help his daughter get into college.
As a scholar, teacher and historian at the City University of New York, she was an ardent preservationist and an inclusive ethnographer.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York approved landmark legislation creating a commission to investigate misconduct by prosecutors. District attorneys vowed to fight it in court.
Psychologists have studied personal space and physical contact for decades. Here's why people get so uncomfortable.
While researching a project on college admissions during the early years of affirmative action, I visited a bar called Paris Blues in Harlem. Turns out, I had come to the right place, and found the right person.
The end of senior year is now often characterized by a sense of purposelessness. Here are five ways high school seniors can connect with what matters to them.
A South Carolina college student was killed last weekend by a man posing as a ride-share driver, the police said. Across the country, women have reported dozens of similar attacks in recent years.
The Federal Trade Commission accused Omics International, a publisher in India, of operating hundreds of questionable scientific journals. A federal judge agreed.
Cillian Jackson, a 2-year-old with a genetic condition that makes mobility difficult, is now on the move thanks to a high school robotics team in his Minnesota hometown.
Some of the 33 parents who are charged in the college admissions scandal have lost jobs, had book contracts canceled and television shows scrapped.
Some of the 33 parents who are charged in the college admissions scandal have lost jobs, had book contracts canceled and television shows scrapped.
Some of the 33 parents who are charged in the college admissions scandal have lost jobs, had book contracts canceled and television shows scrapped.
New research suggests that Redoshi, who became a free woman in 1865, may have been the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
As U.S.C. has fought to attract low-income students, the campus has become a vivid microcosm of the economic disparities in Los Angeles.
This year’s Modern Love college essay contest expands by going small and seeking all the (tiny) love that’s fit to print.
The students were charged with misdemeanors related to what the university called a “disturbance” at a presentation Border Patrol officers were giving in a campus building.
Readers stress the importance of language study.
The storied Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, performed for the last time in America under Stephen Cleobury, its leader since 1982.
The National Endowment for the Humanities announced grants supporting 233 projects around the country, two weeks after the latest effort to close the agency.
Five dormitories and the dining hall at SUNY New Paltz in New York will feature Native American names instead of the town’s slave-owning founders.
The school said one vandal had ties to a group called Heirs to the Confederacy. More than six months ago, protesters toppled a Confederate statue nearby.
Last week they set off a firestorm at the University of Notre Dame. Why does this item of clothing get people so riled up?
Nathaniel D. Rowland, 24, was arrested in connection with the death of Samantha Josephson, 21, in South Carolina. The authorities did not disclose a motive or how she died.
The Supreme Court has weighed in on affirmative action several times. Here are some key cases through the decades.
A look back through the decades shows the successes and challenges of a divisive social policy.
A former university student said Mr. Boren, an ex-governor and United States senator, made unwanted sexual advances. Mr. Boren has denied the allegation.
It is harder than ever to get into the nation’s most selective universities. The news was troubling for many as the federal cheating case continues.
In a concert at Miller Theater, part of the Composer Portraits series, the composer and multi-instrumentalist’s music was both sparse and voluptuous.
Still, Yoshua Bengio, an artificial intelligence pioneer and co-winner of this year’s prestigious A.M. Turing prize, says A.I. will prove to be a boon, if regulated.
Urgent goals might justify more debt for a while, the economist Robert Shiller says, but this does not license unlimited spending or endlessly accelerating debt.
The hummingbirds were dying. Cockroaches were everywhere. And then Steve Bannon showed up.
A 22-year-old woman accused Mr. Wilder, the country’s first elected African-American governor, of kissing her without her consent in 2017.
As a threat to wildlife, an amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known to science.”
Scientists discovered a previously unidentified genetic mutation in a Scottish woman. They hope it could lead to the development of new pain treatment.
A Brexit scoreboard: Solutions 0, Chaos 8.
A documentary to be screened on Capitol Hill next month, in which I am featured, chronicles the experience of low-income students navigating college admissions.
And should we abolish the Electoral College?
In the wake of the college bribery scandal, critiques of parents who meddle too much can leave us questioning our everyday instincts to help our children.
The dinosaur, named Scotty, was excavated the Saskatchewan province of Canada in the 1990s. A recent study shows that it is the heaviest and oldest specimen of its kind.
From its inception she was a guiding spirit at LaGuardia Community College in Queens with national influence in helping underserved students.
Liberal activists are calling for ending the Senate filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court, but others in the Democratic Party are urging caution.
How the director Daniel Fish stuck to his guns and rode his darkly visionary take on Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic from the experimental fringes to Broadway.
For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing.
For their work on neural networks, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio will share $1 million for what many consider the Nobel Prize of computing.
At least one of the students whose parents stand accused of fraud doesn’t appear to have been very interested in higher education in the first place.
In an increasingly global world, Americans should be adding, not slashing, opportunities for their children to learn another tongue.
Xu Zhangrun boldly criticized China’s repressive policies. Now his university has suspended him and started an inquiry. But he is not retreating.
The college admission scandal and a lawsuit charging admissions discrimination at Harvard have special resonance for families like mine, where parents sacrifice so much for their children’s opportunities.
A standout player at N.Y.U., he had a brief N.B.A. career but made his mark as a color commentator and the team’s link to the youth of New York.
The university submitted falsified data in connection with 30 grants obtained from the N.I.H. and E.P.A., according to a whistle-blower lawsuit.
The university submitted falsified data in connection with 30 grants obtained from the N.I.H. and E.P.A., according to a whistle-blower lawsuit.
Those who appeared in a Boston court on Monday included the top tennis coach at Georgetown and an assistant teacher at a Houston public school.
Accusations that the family behind OxyContin actively played down its perils have led arts and education institutions to rethink accepting Sackler funds.
The man pleaded guilty to institutional vandalism for toppling more than 100 headstones at a St. Louis-area cemetery in 2017. He was sentenced to three years of probation.
Remains buried in the First Baptist cemetery were believed to have been moved in 1860. But many coffins and bones were still there.
The United States ranks toward the bottom of social mobility. Professor Matthew O. Jackson’s new book shows why proposals to reduce inequality won’t solve the problem of mobility.
Deans don’t want call-out culture either — they just can’t say so out loud.
Sometimes the best school isn’t the “elite” college at the top of the national rankings. It’s the public university just down the road.
Justices will be reviewing the case of North Carolina, where Republicans drew a map to maximize their power in the House. Plaintiffs challenging the map say it’s unconstitutional.
The bills are part of a larger political strategy aimed partly at showing that Republicans are more willing to tackle anti-Semitic hate speech than divided Democrats.
The University of Georgia chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon was temporarily suspended and four students were expelled after the video was circulated online.
We asked readers to discuss how the people they met and classes they took influenced them, and how much going to an elite school matters.
When the actress was implicated in the college admissions scandal, it stunned people in her acting circles and at the prestigious high school her older daughter attends.
A well-regarded philosophy professor, Dr. Silvers knew the subject firsthand, having had polio as a child.
A lawsuit against Harvard over two haunting 1850 photographs stirs debate over how to balance the need to preserve history and the moral claims of descendants.
Paula Volent started in art conservation. But at Bowdoin, she has become one of the nation’s most successful financial managers of a college endowment.
Governments that want to curb gun violence frequently offer bounties for turning in weapons. New Zealand and Washington State are among the latest.
The artist dances with wolves, and hunters, in his new film “Redoubt,” shot in his native Idaho. It’s the most emancipated work of his career.
The order would link some higher education funds to how colleges enforce free speech rights, a cause célèbre for conservatives who argue their voices have been silenced.
The order links some higher education funds to how colleges enforce free speech rights, a cause célèbre for conservatives who argue their voices have been silenced.
College sports do have some upsides. But their sheer scale is silly.
And what would a fair college admissions system look like?
Researchers identified the master control gene that enables worms to grow a new body, capturing the imagination of some humans looking for a fresh start.
A woman is suing the university for photographs taken 169 years ago of slaves she says are her ancestors. The images were taken as part of a racist study.