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Cybersecurity Expert Named President at Carnegie Mellon

PITTSBURGH  – Carnegie Mellon University has named a cybersecurity expert as its new president. The Pittsburgh university of about 14,500 students has announced that Farnam Jahanian has been appointed the college’s 10th president. Jahanian joined the university in 2014 as vice president for research. He then served two years as the school’s provost and became […]

March 8, 2018

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Race, Power, Privilege in the Marketplace Are Focus of Interdisciplinary Network’s Research

A group of scholars has set out to change how marketing researchers understand how race, power and privilege affect marketplace policies and practices.

February 4, 2018

Sports

Emerging Scholar Profile: Bimper Builds the Athletics Bridge

Having grown up in Dallas, Tx., Dr. Albert Bimper Jr.’s experience attending Colorado State University (CSU) as an undergraduate was “very different” racially and culturally, he says. While some of his experiences as a student athlete were positive, at other times, it was challenging.

January 24, 2018

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University of Texas Survey: 1 in 7 Female Students Raped

AUSTIN, Texas — Nearly 15 percent of female undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin reported being raped in a survey released by officials at the 50,000-student campus Friday. The survey comes at a time when Baylor University and state lawmakers are facing a widespread sexual assault scandal involving football players at the nation’s […]

March 26, 2017

Sports

The University of Texas Austin Battles a Tumultuous Legacy

The University of Texas at Austin bears a complicated history toward race.

July 13, 2015