Search

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi, Julian Mark, Amaya Verde If you invested in the stock market this year, chances are you came out pretty well. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite index [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi Eight days after Big Lots announced plans for liquidation sales at all of its U.S. stores, the discount retailer said Friday it reached a deal with an [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage, Shannon Najmabadi Congress revoked an additional $20 billion from the Internal Revenue Service last week when lawmakers averted a government shutdown, a cut that may undo many [...]

Byline: Jacob Bogage, Shannon Najmabadi Congress revoked an additional $20 billion from the Internal Revenue Service last week when lawmakers averted a government shutdown, a cut that may undo many [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi Two former FTX executives appear to have had time trimmed off their prison sentences for their roles in the multibillion-dollar fraud that led to the 2022 collapse [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi Members of the Nordstrom family are taking its namesake department store chain private with Mexican retailer El Puerto de Liverpool, in a deal announced Monday that values [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi The Internal Revenue Service said last week it will issue 'special payments' to upward of 1 million people who did not receive all of their stimulus money [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi A flagging home goods sector, muddled brand identity and competition from online retailers and mass-discounters set the stage for Big Lots' decision to liquidate its remaining stores, [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi, Gerrit De Vynck China has opened an investigation into chipmaker Nvidia over suspected violations of the country's anti-monopoly law, it announced Monday, ratcheting up its escalating fight [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi China has opened an investigation into chipmaker Nvidia over suspected violations of the country's anti-monopoly law, it announced Monday. The probe comes as the United States and [...]

Byline: Daniel Gilbert, Shannon Najmabadi The targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a powerful executive walking alone on a New York sidewalk, is forcing a broad examination of security [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi Enron, the Texas energy company infamous for accounting fraud, is back - or is it? Twenty-three years to the day after Enron filed for bankruptcy, a website [...]

Byline: Hannah Ziegler, Shannon Najmabadi CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article incorrectly cited wholesale egg inventory and production estimates instead of retail demand. The article has been corrected to [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi Nvidia's shares sank about 2 percent in after-hours trading Wednesday after the artificial intelligence chip maker posted quarterly earnings that beat estimates but apparently failed to convince [...]

Byline: Hannah Ziegler, Shannon Najmabadi While most grocery prices have stabilized this year, one supermarket staple keeps getting pricier and tougher to track down: Eggs. It was frustrating to shoppers [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi To the internet, she's a rapper named Razzlekhan who styled herself as the 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and claimed to have more pizzazz than Genghis Khan. But [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi General Motors is recalling almost 462,000 diesel-engine pickup trucks and SUVs over a transmission issue that can cause rear wheels to lock, increasing the risk of a [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi Fashion house Steve Madden says it will reduce the goods it sources from China to limit exposure to potential tariffs under the incoming Trump administration. Steve Madden, [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi As the biggest Medicare Advantage insurers see it, something as minor as a dropped phone call can now cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. Around the [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi Apple and investment bank Goldman Sachs mishandled disputes and misled iPhone purchasers about interest-free payment options through their Apple Card partnership, delaying refunds for customers on disputed [...]

Byline: Shannon Najmabadi, Evan Halper Put Amazon on the list of big technology firms embracing new nuclear technologies to fuel their data centers. Amazon said Wednesday it's investing in projects [...]

The article focuses on the growing importance of teaching information literacy to college students. Topics discussed include a report released in November 2016 by Stanford University researchers which found that many students had trouble identifying partisan or paid-for content online and assessing the credibility of sources, and some progress made by instructors in adapting information literacy to the internet age.

The article comments on the growing problem of fake news. Topics discussed include a recent study by the Stanford History Education Group which found that most American high-school and college students are unable to distinguish real from fake information when evaluating online sources, the difficulty of teaching critical reasoning, and policies that expose fewer students to college-level classes where critical literacy is taught.

The article discusses how an associate professor of math and director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Tufts University, Moon Dunchin has proposed to combat gerrymandering with metric geometry. She has stated that although her plans at the start were just research-oriented, however, she now wants to train a big new generation of mathematicians who would serve as expert witnesses in court cases against the electoral districts.

Six proven ways to keep your program up-to-date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intel's director of university programs talks with The Chronicle about the challenges of aligning curricula with reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses petitions for several U.S. colleges and universities to become sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. Topics include Trump's pledge to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants and eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy giving undocumented young people two years to work and live in the U.S. without being deported, concerns regarding the enforcement of immigration law by campus police, and Trump's threat of withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities.