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Dr. Ray Jayawardhana Appointed Provost of Johns Hopkins University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ray Jayawardhana Jayawardhana is currently dean of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He previously served as dean of science and professor of physics and astronomy at York University in Canada and senior adviser to the president for science engagement at the University of Toronto. "Dr.

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Ohio State Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eight scientists at The Ohio State University have been elected to the 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. I am pleased to see these creative thinkers receive well-deserved recognition for their research and service from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.” Dr. James L.

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Political science and physics major Leela Fredlund wants to ensure fairness and justice prevail in humanity’s leap into space.

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“I realized that I could raise very interesting questions at the intersection of astronomy and political science,” says Fredlund. Through undergraduate projects at MIT and at institutions such as NASA, Fredlund has been focused on the ways governments are shaping humanity’s expanding ventures off planet.

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QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 11 subjects for 2023

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MIT also placed second in five subject areas: Accounting and Finance; Architecture/Built Environment; Biological Sciences; Chemistry; and Economics and Econometrics. MIT also placed second in five subject areas: Accounting and Finance; Architecture/Built Environment; Biological Sciences; Chemistry; and Economics and Econometrics.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In spring 2022, the National Science Foundation awarded $1.5 Available data suggest that the nation’s faculty are less diverse than relevant comparison groups in terms of socioeconomic status. But these data now describe faculty members working at colleges and universities nearly 20 years ago. What Do We Do?

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4 Ways to Learn Outside the Classroom While Studying Abroad

AIFS Abroad

I visited the British Museum, the British Library, the National Portrait Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, the Charles Dickens Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the Science Museum—and I don’t even like natural history or science! It didn’t matter if the subject of the museum was a topic that I was interested in.

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If aliens contact humanity, who decides what we do next?

The Guardian Higher Education

Scientists setting up ‘post-detection hub’ in Scotland are concerned humans would react ‘like headless chickens’ The moment has been imagined a thousand times. As astronomers comb the cosmos with their powerful telescopes, they spot something that makes them gasp.

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