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Focuses on the discrimination and retaliation claims filed by professor Graciela Chichilnisky against Columbia University in New York City. Conflicts encountered by Chichilnisky with her colleagues; Background on the cases; Terms of the settlement signed by the university.

This article presents information on some changes, which have been made in the syllabus of courses taught at Alfred University, Alfred, New York. The course taught by Robert A. Myers, professor of anthropology and public health, takes a complete look at many "improvements" people make to their bodies in the name of culture, identity and beauty. According to Myers much of the class focuses on body modifications that are accepted as the norm in contemporary American culture. Myers places particular emphasis on how practices like tattooing, which developed from a stigma to a sign of Angelina Jolie-style hipness, have been adopted by mainstream culture.

The article presents information on Martin P. Schreibman, an emeritus professor of biology at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College, who runs a high-tech fish-raising operation for the college. His warehouselike laboratory is lined with rows of 300-gallon fiberglass tanks that teem with fish. He is mainly raising tilapia, which are increasingly popular among restaurant chefs. Schreibman and his assistants control every aspect of this aquatic environment, he explains, his voice nearly drowned out by the whir of pumps endlessly recirculating water.

Focuses on the 2003 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in Cooperstown, New York. Attendance at the symposium; Challenges of being a college professor teaching a course on baseball; Issues discussed at the symposium.

Profiles Peter Lax and Louis Nirenberg in light of their retirement from the New York University as professors of Mathemaitcs. Parallelism in their career and achievements; Their areas of work; Future plans; Biographical backgrounds.