LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Western Kentucky has hired Stanford assistant Willie Taggart as its football coach. Taggart replaces David Elson, who was fir...
Ruth Sherman | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
As Goldman Sachs may be discovering, belatedly and to its chagrin, image matters. Perception is reality. Therefore, if we want business and government to do better by us, we need more arts education, not less.
Reuters | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business
Stanford University is looking to sell as much as $1 billion worth of investments including private equity investments, real estate and timberlands, t...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Maybe because it's back-to-school time, I've heard from readers about a bunch of different education-related ventures. In fact, here's another example of a university and a New Radical working together.
Sunil Chacko | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
The landslide victory of Dr. Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to effect change in the way Japan does business.
Blaise Zerega | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Rather than simply looking to control treatments or reduce payments to physicians, the medical-industrial complex itself should be carefully scrutinized.
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living
Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years -- without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Let's hope that colleges around the country get the message that debate, dissent, disagreement, and even unflattering blog posts are signs of a healthy educational landscape, not an infirm one.
Don McNay | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.
Patrick Sauer | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
The organization calls on President Obama to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and encourages straight married couples to wear an "equality ring" as a sign of support.
Kim Cranston | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green
Scientists predict that climate change may unleash public unrest and mass migration in 20 years, and increase the global surface temperature up to 11.5 degrees F by 2100.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics
About 150 protest veterans, who led the fight 40 years ago to dislodge Stanford University from the War in Vietnam, on Sunday called on Stanford to sever relations with former Provost Condoleezza Rice.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.21.2009 | World
Hundreds of Chinese studies majors at top universities in North America have recently formed a network dedicated to forging new economic, cultural, and political links between East and West.
Natasha Chen | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
In the process of fixing the country's problems, Obama has the chance to solidify a Democratic majority for decades to come.
Natasha Chen | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green
To make solar energy more cost efficient, one has to either make the cells cheaper or more efficient.
Giles Slade | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics
In the run-up to the federal election, signs of the republican's self-confidence are, to paraphrase Pete Townsend, 'f-f-f-fading away'. But let me re...
Tom Alderman | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
Whether we admit it, or not, presidential campaigns are more about personality than policies, temperament over brains, and has been since broadcasting began.
ABC News | JONATHAN KARL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Condoleezza Rice often clashed with Donald Rumsfeld when he was secretary of defense. But now Rice is sticking up for him in a battle with students an...
AP | WILL GRAVES | Posted 11.23.2009 | Sports