When it comes to key warriors in America’s battle over the causes of climate change, few rival Pennsylvania State University professor Michael E. Mann . Mann, who directs the Penn State Earth System Science Center, led a 1998 reconstruction of temperature records going back thousands of years and showing that global averages had shot up in recent decades. Read full article > >

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Book review: Michael Mann’s ‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars’

President Obama on Thursday nominated Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor of environmental science and policy at George Mason University, to be the next chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Macfarlane, a geologist by training, served as a member of the White House Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, which examined nuclear waste disposal. Read full article > >

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Obama nominates George Mason professor Allison M. Macfarlane as NRC chairman

A man accused of halting the University Boat Race by swimming in the River Thames denies a charge of causing a public nuisance.

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Man denies boat race swim charge

A study suggests public sector debt will be pushed up by £100bn over next two decades by higher university fees.

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£9k fees ‘to push debt up £100bn’

Higher university fees have not boosted teaching time at England’s universities, research suggests.

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Fees rise ‘didn’t boost teaching’

Student protesters in Montreal storm the University of Quebec, disrupting classes as they were due to resume after a boycott protesting rising tuition fees.

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Activists storm Montreal classes

At a commencement at the University of North Carolina, the mayor said the state’s rejection of same-sex marriage made it clear “how much more work needs to be done.”

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City Room: Bloomberg Defends Same-Sex Marriage in State That Rejected It

Boston University mourned three study-abroad students killed in New Zealand while visiting locations where “The Lord of the Rings” movies were filmed.

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3 Boston University students die in New Zealand

Author Jeanette Winterson is to become a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.

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Author to be university professor

Florida A&M University band director Julian White, who had been under pressure to step aside after the hazing-related death of a band member, is retiring, his attorney announced Thursday.

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FAMU’s band director steps down

Harvard University isn’t the only one of Elizabeth Warren ’s employers to have described her as a minority; so did the University of Pennsylvania. According to Penn’s 2005 “ Minority Equity Report ,” it too identified Warren, who taught there from 1987 to 1995, as a minority. Read full article > >

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University of Pennsylvania also listed Elizabeth Warren as a minority

In August 2005, Raghuram Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, predicted the financial crisis. And he did it at possibly the least friendly of venues: a conference of high-powered economists who had convened in part to honor Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Read full article > >

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Larry Summers vs. the long-termers

The fasting protest was the latest display of anger at the 23 California State University campuses, where the system has lost roughly $970 million in state financing since 2008.

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California State Students Plan to Fast in Protest Over Cuts

A vice-chancellor who has been critical of plans to merge his university with two others is to stand down for personal reasons.

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Uni merger critic to stand down

Daniel Chong, a University of California student, was swept up in a Drug Enforcement Administration raid and placed in a holding cell, where he said he was forgotten for four days, without food or water.

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California Man Left for Days in Holding Cell