REPORT: Machete-Wielding Professor Fired From New Teaching Job

A university professor who was previously fired for an armed confrontation with a reporter was also fired from his new teaching position in January, the New York Post reported. Shereen Rodriguez, who previously allegedly threatened a reporter with a machete, was fired from her new position as an adjunct professor at New York's Cooper Union […]

Remembering Jazz icon, Yale professor Willie Ruff

I usually write about politics and related topics, but let me digress for a moment. The University of Alabama lost a humble legend on Christmas Eve. Willie Ruff was his name and we were friends. I had the pleasure of meeting Willie more than 30 years ago when he was a host and producer at […]

UA professor & Chicano activist Roberto ‘Cintli’ Rodriguez dead at 69

Roberto Rodriguez, an award-winning Chicano activist, author, and professor of Mexican-American studies at the University of Arizona, died Monday of heart failure in Teotihuacan, Mexico. he was 69 years old. Rodriguez was a journalist, author, lecturer, and a beloved professor at UA. He authored his four books and numerous essays, poems and columns. Rodriguez was […]

Pennsylvania professor photographs first radiation belt outside solar system

Photo credit: Chuck Carter, Melody Kao, The Heising Simmons Foundation Lewisburg, Union County (WBRE/WYOU) — in April, Jackie Vilasen, a professor of physics and astronomy at Bucknell University, has discovered a planet orbiting a star. Just a month later, she was part of another team that made yet another discovery: the first radiation belt outside […]