Science, Medicine, & Education

In a second-floor classroom at San Francisco’s Washington High School, David Ko is leading freshmen in a discussion about bullying. But it’s not the typical conversation about treating others nicely. “We’re learning about power — political, economic, social — our race, ethnicity, culture, nationality,” says 14-year-old freshman James Liu. That’s because ethnic studies is not […]

PHILADELPHIA — The highest-paid college president in the U.S. in 2014-15 was Jack P. Varsalona, who collected $5.4 million for 2014-15, his last full year at the helm of Wilmington University, a private, non-profit Delaware-based institution, with more than 21,000 mostly part-time students and no tenured faculty. That’s according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s

Reproductive rights activists opposed to Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary have hit upon a potent rallying cry: the cost of birth control. The campaign stems from a remark made back in 2012 by Georgia Congressman Tom Price, who this week was nominated to run Trump’s Department of Heath and Human Services. Back then, Price

Members of Rho Epsilon, the Rutgers affiliate of Alpha Epsilon Pi, in 1957, together with their housemother. Photos courtesy Bruce Kesselman An AEPi initiation in 1990 for new pledges. Fraternity members and their dates at a 1961 AEPi toga party. Sixty years after a chapter of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi was established at

Tom Price, the Georgia congressman tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is set to become the most powerful person in health policy. Price has made his name in Washington for his strong opposition to the Affordable Care Act – and implementing whatever congressional

Melania Trump’s lawyer, Charles J. Harder, is threatening a lawsuit over a YouTube video that suggests that Barron, the Trumps’ 10-year-old son, has autism. In a letter obtained by TMZ, Harder confirms that Barron is not autistic and portrays Rosie O-Donnell as a key perpetrator of the false claim. RELATED: Rosie O’Donnell clarifies her stance