Interview with Olivette Otele
The UK’s first black female history professor on universities atoning for their pasts and believing in the goodness of others
The UK’s first black female history professor on universities atoning for their pasts and believing in the goodness of others
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Six scholars learn the career and life lessons of their greatest academic missteps
Tributes paid to pioneering historian who served as first female president of Smith College
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
Tributes paid to electrical engineer who helped forge today’s science of mobile communications
The new chancellor of Leeds Trinity University talks about playing a student on Coronation Street, coping with grief and why regional accents are still frowned upon by directors of Shakespeare
Leading pianist who spent more than four decades at the University of Miami remembered
Academic Jack Davis tells John Morgan of his surprise at learning that his history of the Gulf of Mexico had won a Pulitzer prize and his hope that it will help to deliver a pro-environmental message
New generation of scientists powering country’s development, says head of science funding agency
Scholars claim dean-elect is unfit for office after publishing articles in journals found on Jeffrey Beall’s blacklist
Career of prolific technology and development expert took him from Nairobi to Harvard
Efforts by granddaughter of William Carlos Williams to persuade the Nobel Foundation to acknowledge the US poet could open door for other disciplines