Science, Medicine, & Education

MINNEAPOLIS — Vandals defaced a sign promoting the University of Minnesota’s Muslim Students Association, scrawling “ISIS” over a hand-painted mural on the Washington Avenue Bridge, which connects the east and west banks of the Twin Cities campus. The graffiti was discovered early Thursday morning and documented on social media, prompting the Minnesota chapter of the

A New York elementary school has canceled its traditional mock presidential election after kids chanted “Trump” and repeated “negative rhetoric about minorities,” according to the school principal. Children at Jericho Elementary School in Centereach will be voting for their favorite school lunch instead of their favorite presidential candidate after their mock campaign season got too

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — In recognition of a $3.5 million gift made by Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld to support the renovation and ongoing maintenance of Brown University’s Judaic Studies Building, the University has renamed the building the “Hirschfeld House.” As a focal point for Jewish life and learning at Brown, the renovations

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump faced off on the question of abortion in the final debate. And it quickly became painfully obvious that the only person on stage, including the moderator, who knew much about women’s health was the woman. When Chris Wallace asked Clinton why she had “voted against a ban on late-term, partial-birth

The University of Iowa is investigating a series of fliers criticizing “anti-white propaganda,” which were discovered near campus centers dedicated to Latino, Native American, African American and LGBTQ communities. The fliers discovered Sunday on a bulletin board in a campus residence hall “were deeply offensive to some members of our campus community,” according to UI

Call it Bernie Sanders vs. Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Act Two. The Vermont senator and erstwhile presidential candidate, who has helped make prescription drug pricing a high-profile issue, sent the company a letter on Thursday asking for a plethora of data that might explain a string of “staggering” and “outrageous” price hikes for an expensive cancer treatment.

Hillary Clinton defended the practice of partial-birth abortion in the final presidential debate on Wednesday, obscuring her belief that abortion should be legal at any point during a pregnancy by appealing to the “health” of the mother. Asked to defend her vote in the Senate against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, which was

I wish we lived in a world in which we didn’t have to read about or hear about or worry about the really tough stuff — like cancer, violent crime, drug and alcohol addiction, acts of hate, lying and cheating, sexual assault. Yet we do. We live in a beautiful, broken world. We are lovely,

Over the past few days, social media has been on fire with the story of Dr. Tamika Cross, who was flying on Delta when a flight attendant asked for a doctor to help a passenger in medical distress. Cross tried to jump in, but the flight attendant dismissed her, not believing the young black woman