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Considering the recruiting controversy that has engulfed the men’s basketball team over the past few weeks, Chenoweth proves that athletes can still perform at the highest levels of sport and academia...
Instead of caving in to pressure from her archaeologist father to enter academia, Guinean-born Katoucha (born Katoucha Niane) became one of the world's first African supermodels, hitting the runway for the likes of Christian Lacroix and Yves Saint Laurent and starting her own label. Postfashion, the gracious celebrity used her fame and her horrific experience as a 9-year-old to write a book and speak out against female genital mutilation. Katoucha, who apparently fell from the houseboat she owned in Paris, had been missing since January. Her body was found in the Seine...
...Summers’ comments concerning the intrinsic aptitude of women in science and technology ignited a storm of controversy and a national debate about women in academia...
...Following the fierce response to his comments, Summers commissioned two task forces on women in academia, which led to the creation of a University-wide office on Faculty Development and Diversity, charged with improving faculty diversity across the University...
...best thing you could do is develop your skills outside of comedy writing because the thing that makes a great comedy writer is having an informed point of view. I find the most interesting people, even that we were hiring at The Daily Show, came from backgrounds of academia or journalism. They weren’t people that came up through college humor magazines or who had just studied exclusively improv. It was people who were like: ‘I was a molecular biology major and then went to Phillipines and did work-study.’ That informs...