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This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump

alishpagda08@gmail.com3 months ago012 mins

The conversation between two Rutgers University professors that lit a fire in U.S. higher education circles lasted only about 10 minutes. The professors — one teaches chemistry in Camden, N.J., the other psychology in Newark — said they were frustrated by the Trump administration’s abrupt cuts to research funding and its efforts to dictate policy…

Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90

alishpagda08@gmail.com4 months ago011 mins

Ralph Holloway, an anthropologist who pioneered the idea that changes in brain structure, and not just size, were critical in the evolution of humans, died on March 12 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. His death was announced by Columbia University’s anthropology department, where he taught for nearly 50 years. Mr. Holloway’s contrarian…