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Karin Brown, a philosophy professor at San Jose State University, on May 23, 2013.

But after saving an estimated $45 billion for consumers over four decades, the system is in danger of running aground.

Imagine in what is considered to be the apex of academia, Harvard University, anti-freedom subversives rule the day.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A Boston businessman with no previous connection to the school has donated $1 million to Birmingham-Southern College, the school announced this week.

Harvard University professors expressed concerned that HarvardX, the school's offering on the EdX online teaching platform founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , is operating without the involvement of its faculty.

YY Inc. , a revolutionary rich communication social platform, today announced that it has enhanced the independence of its Board of Directors by appointing two additional independent directors, effective as of May 23, 2013.

There's a catch, however: I'm unable to tell you what that insight is. Neither I, nor any of my professional physicist friends, have the faintest clue.

Generating "new knowledge" will be a driving principle in Harvard University 's fundraising drive that will formally start in September, President Drew Faust said.

Dr. Michael Pollak has been awarded the 2012 O. Harold Warwick Prize by the Canadian Cancer Society.

In a story May 22, The Associated Press reported 72 percent of Harvard University's student body voted in favor of the school's endowment divesting from fossil fuel companies.

The woman at the center of the sex scandal that led to David Petraeus' resignation from the CIA has spoken publicly for the first time about the affair and apologized for the "harm" she caused to the families involved.

The time to fret about when China will acquire drones is over: it has them. The question now is when and how it will use them.

A study published by Cell Press in the May 23 issue of Chemistry & Biology reveals a new genomic approach to screen for compounds that could inhibit tumor growth by causing cancer cells to differentiate, or convert from immature cells to more specialized cell types.

A soft-spoken, virtually unknown mathematician from the University of New Hampshire has found himself overnight a minor celebrity, flooded with requests to give talks at top universities as his work is debated and celebrated online by leaders in his field.

President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The Cherokee County School District and school board members on Tuesday honored the valedictorians and salutatorians of the class of 2013 during its 13th annual Scholar Recognition Banquet.

The electric dipole moments, shown as arrows, of these two enantiomers of 1,2-propanediol are alike in all but one respect: The dipole moments along the C -axis point in opposite directions.

THE first woman to run Oxford's world-famous Bodleian Libraries in 400 years will leave her position this summer.

Work for the scooter prototype has been going on for months and this month the Kettering group showed it off to faculty and student at Harvard University and MIT.

An associate professor of finance, Bergstresser teaches classes in fixed income securities, corporate financial engineering and venture capital.