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Faculty & Staff

ELIZABETH G. LOBOA

ELIZABETH G. LOBOA has been appointed dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri, effective October 15. She is a professor of material science and engineering and a director of the Cell Mechanics Laboratory at North Carolina State University. Loboa also is associate chair and a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the joint program operated by North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned a bachelor’s from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s and a doctorate from Stanford University.

September 24, 2015

Students

Many Factors Determine Good and Effective Teaching

There are a combination of qualities that distinguish good professors from poor ones.

September 15, 2015

Students

Obama Promotes Online Research Tool with College-Specific Data

President Barack Obama on Saturday debuted a redesigned online tool with college-specific information about student costs, loans and potential earning power.

September 13, 2015

Students

Expert: Don’t Get Bogged Down in ‘Hiring Funnel’

Despite the growing number of websites designed to connect college graduates to jobs, job seekers should focus on alternative ways to get in contact with the people who hire and fire.

September 3, 2015

African-American

Black Lives Matter Movement Crucial in Drawing Attention to Issues

It has been all but impossible to not to notice the Black Lives Matter movement

September 2, 2015

Students

10 Years After Katrina

Ten years ago, the outside world watched television screens in horror as Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and ravaged the Gulf Coast and other areas in the final days of August 2005. Numerous books have been written on various aspects of the disaster and its consequences. Diversebooks.net has a number of books for teaching, counseling and general reading topics related to the disaster and recovery.

September 2, 2015

Students

Ohio University Student Sues Sorority for 2014 Injury

An Ohio University student is suing a sorority at the Athens school for an injury she suffered at the chapter house in 2014.

August 31, 2015

Faculty & Staff

On Blazers and Blackness

Sometimes it’s the forced, extra warm smile. It could be an overtly cordial greeting with disarming jokes. It might mean shirking natural hairstyles. For some, it’s even changing the inflection of their voice.

August 30, 2015

Faculty & Staff

President of Connecticut Board of Regents System to Resign

The president of the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education announced Friday that he will resign effective Dec. 31, ending a rocky two-year tenure overseeing the state college and university system.

August 16, 2015

Students

“Who Is a Journalist Now?” Survey Looks at Change in Media

Who and what is a journalist in the age of social media, sponsored content and sagging newspaper circulation?

August 11, 2015

Students

Public Meeting Set to Discuss Future of LSU’s Newspaper

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU students and alumni have been voicing concerns over ongoing discussions about possibly cutting the print schedule of the university’s storied Daily Reveille campus newspaper.

August 10, 2015

LGBTQ+

Women, People of Color, LGBT Barely Seen in Hollywood Films

Women had less than a third of speaking parts in the most popular films from 2007 to 2014, according to a new study that gives further evidence of persistent inequality in Hollywood, on-screen and off.

August 7, 2015