Peking University lecture info (May 20 - 31, 2013) [2013-05-19]

West Road Concert Hall Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley; Mellon CDI Visiting Fellow at CRASSH) gives the final lecture in CRASSH's Understanding ...

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Professor Terry Speed has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy promoting excellence in science. Professor Speed's election recognises his contributions to the field of ...

LAWRENCE — University of Kansas alumna Kathleen Hall, of Lecompton, has made a leadership gift to establish a geology professorship at the University of Kansas. Gene Rankey, associate professor of geology, will be the inaugural recipient of the ...

A new export hall of fame is to identify Denmark's leading global enterprises. The initiative is the brainchild of the Danish Trade and Investment Ministry, and AU professor Philipp Schröder has been selected to join the 'hall of fame committee', ...

When Ted Johnson walks by Fraser Hall, he notices something intriguing about the blooming yellow and red tulips in the flower bed. Unlike their cousins only a few hundred feet away by the marquee outside Watson Library that stretch straight up to ...

Professor Jim Henry enjoyed the creativity in Shen Yun's performance at the Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu May 5. (Alex Ma/The Epoch Times) HONOLULU—Jim Henry, associate professor of the writing department at the University of ...

The San Antonio Express-News and the will host a town hall meeting on comprehensive immigration reform at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Aula Canaria Room at UTSA's downtown campus. The meeting is open to the public and admission is free. Free parking will ...

Loud cheers echoed through the arrivals hall of the Cape Town International Airport as Cyril Karabus's plane touched down. International Relations Deputy Minister Marius Fransman with Cyril Karabus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Jacoline ...

Professors across the U.S. are criticizing a rush to offer free online college courses, challenging a movement designed to spread knowledge and reduce higher-education costs. Amherst College faculty voted last month against joining an initiative led ...