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Coal Mining

Stanford University uses its purse strings to protest coal companies

Environment

Stanford University students against fossil fuel investments made by their university used the same channels alumni used years ago to make a stand against apartheid. Stanford officials listened then, and now. It will purge its $18 billion endowment of coal stock.

Coal Mining

Stanford University uses its purse strings to protest coal companies

Environment

The Scene from MIT — and Listener Messages for Boston

University of Texas Students Weigh in on Affirmative Action

Smart Programs Read Shakespeare

Is the Future of Higher Education Online?

President Obama began his 2012 presidential campaign last month with a stop at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor where he addressed young, swing-state voters about the need for affordable higher education in the coming decades. The question that remains is how can public universities keep tuition costs down in a depressed economy. The […]

The World

Smart Programs Read Shakespeare

Arts, Culture & Media

Patrick Winston is Principal Investigator at MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. He believes that creating artificial intelligence is not a matter of more powerful processing: we have to teach computers how to think more like humans.

The World

Canada’s unexpected parliamentarians

Development & Education

Five college students in Montreal just got elected to Canada’s parliament. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with one of them – McGill University student Jamie Nicholls.

The World

The global conflicts of 1861

Arts, Culture & Media

Americans marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War today, but according to Brian DeLay, a teacher of history at the University of California, Berkeley, the rest of the world was hardly at peace, either.

The World

CHEMICAL STUDY WITHDRAWN

Just over a year ago, a research team at Tulane University in new Orleans published some startling results. The group reported that pesticides were hundreds of times more toxic in pairs than one at a time. Such synergistic effects had been reported before, but the staggering magnitude reported caught researchers around the world by surprise. […]