This week, I renewed my TSA PreCheck membership. Why? I’m not so sure. For some (admittedly privileged) portion of academics, flying for work is a typical (usually annual) event. I have flown ...

I just finished my fourteenth year as a professor at Union College, which means it probably shouldn't seem weird that I get asked for career advice. And yet, it still kind of does. Some of this is a ...

I n January, Marisa Mills, a Ph.D. candidate in medieval literature at the University of Southern Mississippi, traveled from Pensacola, Fla., to present at the annual meeting of the Modern Language ...

Men tend to dominate the question-and-answer sessions at academic conferences, potentially wielding a significant influence over the future trajectory of scientific research. Recent research sheds ...

[This is a guest post by Stan Kurkovsky, a professor of computer science at CCSU. Stan and I are teaching a course abroad next year called Secrecy: Science & Fiction. (I totally can’t believe I’ve ...

The Graduate School of Business (GSB) will host its Academic Freedom Conference from Nov. 4-5. The conference, which has stirred controversy over its speaker lineup and initial decision to be closed ...

The conference no longer exists as an athletic association, but it still lives on today in the form of the Custer Battlefield Highway Academic Festival, an academic competition that returned to ...

The ballooning costs of attending high-end academic conferences are excluding early-career researchers. But we need their fresh perspectives Julian Kirchherr is assistant professor at Utrecht ...