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The article examines how university research might overlook practical outcomes despite significant funding and potential for commercial success. Topics discussed include the development of life-saving innovations, the role of federal funding in research, and the commercialization of academic projects.

This document provides brief biographical information about several prominent figures in the field of engineering. It highlights their accomplishments, areas of expertise, and contributions to their respective fields. The individuals mentioned include Janusz Kozinski, a leading expert in sustainable energy systems; Colin Peter Smith, a civil engineer with extensive experience in infrastructure projects; Kashim Abdul Ali, a former president of the Nigerian Society of Engineers; Elizabeth Taylor, an expert in governance effectiveness and ecosystem analysis; Mariofanna Milanora, a professor specializing in artificial intelligence and computer vision; Asa Barber, a materials engineering professor with a focus on nanotechnology; and Mariene Kanga, a leader in STEM organizations and safety initiatives. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model, has raised concerns and challenges regarding academic writing and student learning. It discusses the capabilities of ChatGPT in generating essays and explores the implications for students, instructors, and the educational process. It delves into the significance of writing in academia and the effort it requires, while raising questions about grading, incentives, and the role of instructors in student learning.

In an article titled "Dutton's nuclear lies," Ian Lowe criticizes Peter Dutton's claim that nuclear power is the solution to Australia's future energy needs. Lowe argues that the world is investing more in renewable energy sources, with very few new nuclear power stations being built. He also highlights the high cost and time required to construct nuclear power plants, concluding that Dutton's proposal is dishonest. Professor John Quiggin further adds that nuclear power is economically unviable in the Australian context. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the significance of students visiting professors during office hours and how these interactions can positively influence their academic and career paths. It explores why some students avoid office hours and shares efforts by professors to enhance the accessibility and benefits of these sessions, particularly for underrepresented students. It is further reported that research is also underway to improve office hour practices across different disciplines.

The article offers information on the need for academics leaving academia to overcome their academic identity and cultivate versatile skills. Topics discussed include the growing trend of humanities academics transitioning out of higher education; often after long teaching careers, and the analogy drawn with medical school graduates who face limited prospects in their field; and may need to explore alternative career paths to manage student debt.

The article presents the discussion on "teaching professor," being an increasingly common faculty position at large universities including passionate about teaching and science communication.

The article reports that Prajnya Shukla, professor and author, presented her views related to Hindi language and first Vishwa Hindi Sammelan held on January 10th, 1975 in Nagpur, India.

The article offers information on the budget crisis of the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and shifting resources to upper administration and athletics. Topics discussed include plan of action by the professors in response to looming budget cuts and a possible faculty walkout in response to the administration's handling of the university's budget crisis; views of Robin Oliver, vice president for university communications and marketing, on issue; and continued increase in the cost of tuition.

The article focuses on improving the peer review process in academia by analyzing a year's worth of reviews to understand how academics evaluate each other's work. Topics include the challenges of peer review as an under-taught skill, the growing demand for reviewers amid an increasing number of journals and Ph.D. graduates, and the varying levels of feedback provided by reviewers, with suggestions for enhancing clarity and effectiveness in the review process.

The article examines how college leaders aim to minimize legal challenges in sports by de-emphasizing athletics, enhancing student governance, and integrating sports with academics. Topics covered include the development of guidelines to prevent excessive control by coaches, empowering student-athlete involvement in decision-making, and aligning athletic participation with educational goals.

The article discusses the decline in reading comprehension skills among college students professors are facing. It explores several reasons for this decline, including changes in teaching methods, and the ubiquity of social media.It explores several reasons behind this decline, including less emphasis on reading skills development in high school; the ubiquity of smartphones and social media leading to fragmented reading habits; and the shift in educational priorities during the pandemic.

The article presents the discussion on concept of academic integrity and the use of generative AI in written work created a significant disconnect. Topics include availability of AI tools for writing assistance presenting an opportunity for enhancing their work and improving efficiency; and investing in AI-powered plagiarism detection tools and training faculty members for recognizing signs of AI assistance.

"Scholarship should not depend on the identity or motivation of the writers," said Helen Pluckrose, one of three academics whose scheme targeted journals in identity-studies fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that Jonas R. Kunst is a professor of cultural and community psychology at the University of Oslo who used to enjoy the process in which scholars evaluate papers in their field before they are published, typically anonymously and without pay. Topics include examines Kunst started receiving several requests from academic-journal editors every week.

The article focuses on faculty-led efforts to address budget cuts and restructuring in higher education institutions, with a specific case study at Bradley University. It delves into the challenges faced by faculty members tasked with identifying significant budget reductions, their approaches to analyzing institutional finances, and their attempts to influence administrative decisions.

The article examines that campus was in the grip of a damaging scandal that challenged UNC's core identity as a university that excelled in both athletics and academics. Topics include examines that series of phantom courses had sprung up in the university's department of African and Afro-American studies, and been used by athletes to keep their grades up.

Compiling a tenure file forces you to confront who you are and what you've done, and to reimagine who you want to become. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new paper forecasts rising demand for "permanent supporting scientists," who may be "relegated to a series of short-term postdoctoral contracts or other forms of contingent academic work." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on several announcements, private giving, and deadlines. It discusses the donation from Bates College's Board of Trustees chairman Michael Bonney and his wife Anne Grott Bonney, acceptance of applications for the Leonard Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies, and presents an obituary for Carl Gessert, a pharmacology professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

The article focuses on the problems with student teaching evaluations, highlighting their racial and gender biases and overall ineffectiveness. Topics discussed include studies revealing gender and racial biases in evaluations, the limitations of these evaluations in assessing teaching quality, and recommendations to cease using them for merit and promotion decisions in academia.

The article reports that faculty members of Collin College in Texas were stunned at the way the school announced the death of their colleague after contracting COVID-19 in late October 2020. Topics covered include the faculty members' claim that Collin College leadership has neglected or negated their concerns throughout the pandemic, and that the framing of their colleague's death read like an afterthought.

The article discusses that professor, Atul Jain of the University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, as among nine researchers named to the 2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list.

The article focuses on two Indian American members of The University of Kansas Cancer Center Dr. Priyanka Sharma and Dr. Prateek Sharma who were awarded endowed professorships recognizing their contributions to cancer research.

The article focuses on a vice provost at Georgetown University, where Sarah Craig is a junior majoring in culture and politics, sent the student body an email with the subject line "Important Information On Your Classes." Topics include examines that professors had been asked to accommodate Covid 19-related absences but the university was committed to an in-person semester.

The article discusses the importance of time management for academics in light of the effect of the corporatization of universities. It outlines time management strategies to improve productivity of academics to achieve work-life balance such as use of graduate students, delegation of tasks, and better work habits. The relevance of community and social support to the intellectual and educational mission of the university to countering the individualism of a corporate university is discussed.

The article informs that faculty members can play an important role in countering outdated appeals in humanities and science fields. It is noted that academic literacy have already adept at managing higher education's unofficial rules, routines, and structures through hidden curriculum. It has been suggested to build structure by specifying the assignment's genre, audience and purpose through a sample writing assignment.

The article reports that the journal editors across fields and publishing houses stated finding peer reviewers is harder than ever such as tapping into the pool of female professors and researchers. Topics include examines Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes, an academic clinical lecturer at the University College London who researches biases against women in medical research stated the gap can be traced back to how editors select reviewers.

The article focuses on Marc Edwards, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, and his advocacy for ethics in environmental engineering. It highlights the role of Edwards as an expert witness for a property owner in a suit against the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority for allegedly supplying corrosive water, as well as in helping residents of Flint, Michigan uncover high lead levels in drinking water. The goal of Edwards in teaching ethics is discussed.

A study of 180 academic CVs finds that 56 percent claimed at least one publication that turned out to be unverifiable or inaccurate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that deadlines are a building block of college courses as they help students stay on track, and they ensure instructors are not overwhelmed with a slew of work to grade at the end of a term. Topics include examines many professors have long been sticklers about deadlines, arguing it is part of preparing students for their postcollege lives.

The article discusses that Morningside Pharmaceuticals founder Nik Kotecha is looking forward to his new role as an academic at De Montfort University Leicester and will be made professor of entrepreneurship, innovation, and philanthropy at the university, where he is working as pro-chancellor.

The article offers information on the advancement of associate professor to full professor. Topics discussed include criteria for the promotion of faculty members, faculty diversity, and the roles of full professor. Comments from professors Frank J. Donoghue, Douglas M. Kline, and Daniel Aldridge are also included.

An essay is presented on issues surrounding corruption, academic freedom, and injustice in U.S. colleges and universities. Particular focus is given to the author's experience of being fired from a tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign following a series of controversial social media postings regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. According to the author, university administrators are less interested in promoting critical thinking and intellectual life than in promoting their school's brand.

The article offers advice for U.S. graduate students on attending academic conferences. Topics include job networking, how to relate to senior scholars, and the relation of conference papers to obtaining academic jobs. The author focuses on her experience as a adjunct professor in relation to the academic job market.

The article reports on an investigation conducted by the "Chronicle" on the University of Florida's (UF) rejection to its political science professors' requests to participate in voting-rights litigation against Florida. Topics discussed include professor Oliver Grundmann's proposal to sign a scientific consensus letter about the kratom, the implications of the discussion about kratom for UF professors' academic freedom, and exposure of UF's treatment of politically sensitive issues.

The article reports that A person's loss of smell could predict changes in regions of the brain important to detect Alzheimer's disease and dementia, according to a study by researchers at the University of Chicago. Co-authored by Professor Jayant M. Pinto, senior author of the study, the findings could prove significant for the more than 6 million Americans estimated to have Alzheimer's disease for which there is no cure as yet.

The article shares the views of Kate Marley, Teacher at Doane University, uses to level of disengagement she and her colleagues have witnessed across the Nebraska campus as well as teacher's relationship with student. It mentions that the Chronicle asked faculty members to share their experiences with student disengagement to describe a disconcerting level of disconnection among students in community colleges.

Let's determine what our students actually learn online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being a professor.

Take control of the ways that you and your work are perceived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Four instructors spoke to The Chronicle about their experience cheating as students, and how it informs the way they handle academic misconduct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on academic burnout being experienced by college teachers. Topics discussed include the problem with students' indifference he faced as a college teacher, the stress he felt in his job as a result of the problems he faced in the campus, the impact of the pandemic on college teachers, and results of the higher education study conducted by Fidelity Investments.

The author encourages her fellow U.S. university and college professors to rework or ditch their rigid policy on lateness and stop penalizing their students for missing deadlines on assignments and projects. Topics covered include stress and anxiety being experienced by undergraduate students, incidents of suicides among young people and college students, burden of multiple obligations, inequalities of access and inclusion, and support system for students.

The author reflects on reason she quit her teaching position at a university amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include anecdote she planned to use to kick-start a history-of-medicine class at the University of North Georgia, what she typically taught as a full-time lecturer in the department of history, anthropology, and philosophy, and her concern when the university announced that everyone would return to campus to teach face-to-face.

The article reports that first-generation college student who somehow ended up in a doctoral program at Harvard, will be forever grateful to those who helped find way into an academic career. Topics include considered that they want to reflect on some generalizable reasons why some tenured professors are leaving to find other careers.

The article informs that Ohio University (OU) Board of Trustees on gave a full-throated defense of the university administration and President Duane Nellis. It mentions that the Trustees made their defense in a press release issued shortly after the board's digital-only board meeting. It also informs that OU plans to announce furloughs (temporary leave) for employees through a tiered strategy based on salary level.