This week, I renewed my TSA PreCheck membership. Why? I’m not so sure. For some (admittedly privileged) portion of academics, flying for work is a typical (usually annual) event. I have flown ...

I just finished my fourteenth year as a professor at Union College, which means it probably shouldn't seem weird that I get asked for career advice. And yet, it still kind of does. Some of this is a ...

A venue where those engaged in scholarship and research publicly present their research results and examine and discuss their scientific validity in an open forum (from Wikipedia).The other day, I ...

One of the most useful sessions at last week's DAMOP meeting (for me, anyway) was the invited session on "Turning Physics Students Into Physicists". This was organized by the APS Forum on Education, ...

The incorporated association "Malgeun Hyanggirolgeopeu" (Director Ven. Deokjo) will hold the "2nd Venerable Beopjeong ...

[This is a guest post by Stan Kurkovsky, a professor of computer science at CCSU. Stan and I are teaching a course abroad next year called Secrecy: Science & Fiction. (I totally can’t believe I’ve ...

Like colleges and universities, scholarly associations had been looking forward to something resembling a normal academic year. That meant scheduling in-person annual conferences again, after more ...

The Graduate School of Business (GSB) will host its Academic Freedom Conference from Nov. 4-5. The conference, which has stirred controversy over its speaker lineup and initial decision to be closed ...

Speakers at the debut Frankfurt Academic Conference, held online, examined how the coronavirus pandemic and open access are influencing academic publishing. Hosted by Frankfurt Book Fair New York, the ...