Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved ...

The University Lecture Series provides three to five lectures each year addressing different disciplines within the academic community. Lecture Series strives to bring in speakers covering a broad ...

Global cooling over the past 50 million years has transformed Earth’s ecology. In Africa, increasingly open landscapes saw the adaptive radiation of our hominin ancestors alongside other clades. What ...

For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...

Amor Towles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than eight million copies and have been translated into more than forty languages. Dr. David Hicks, director of the Maslow Family ...

A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...

CEDAR FALLS | Faculty in University of Northern Iowa’s philosophy and world religions department were surprised to see a September poll showing 30 percent of Iowa Republicans didn’t believe that Islam ...

The University of Cambridge has said it will scrap all face-to-face lectures until mid-2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, becoming the first major education institution to officially scale back its ...