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„Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii”, cel de-al treilea lungmetraj al regizorului Emanuel Pârvu, a avut premiera în Competiţia Oficială a Festivalului de la Cannes. Juriul a ales filmul câştigător din cele cinci nominalizări. Filmul „Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii” este propunerea României la Oscar la categoria „Cel mai bun lungmetraj internaţional”. „Trei kilometri […]
La această competiție au participat peste 140 de echipe din întreaga lume. Din România s-au înscris opt echipe. Studenții au început acest proiect în aprilie, când au primit o bază de date cu pacienți oncologici. Patru studenți ai Universității de Medicină și Farmacie „Grigore T. Popa” din Iași, specializarea Medicină Generală, aduc României premiul „Top […]
The chancellor of California State endorsed a colleague for an award despite multiple complaints against him The chancellor of the California State University (CSU), the largest public higher education system in the US, resigned on Thursday following allegations that he had repeatedly refused to discipline a colleague accused of sexual harassment. Joseph Castro described the […]
Hundreds of US women accuse a former doctor of groping them during checkups The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has agreed to pay $243.6 million to 203 women who alleged that the university’s former gynecologist-oncologist, Dr. James Heaps, sexually abused them during vaginal and breast exams. The settlement was announced on Tuesday. Heaps, who […]
A Bristol University student claims the school failed to protect her from trans activists when she said only biological women can give birth Raquel Rosario-Sanchez, a PhD student, is suing Bristol University for allegedly failing to address a three-year “hate campaign” against her by trans activists, which she said was triggered by her declaring that […]
Students have called the move a “cowardly compromise” The University of Alabama has renamed Graves Hall – named after former Ku Klux Klan member and state Governor Bibb Graves – Lucy-Graves Hall, after the first African American student to attend the university. The hall was renamed on Thursday, on the 66th anniversary of Autherine Lucy […]
The nanotechnology expert was charged with hiding his connection to a Beijing institution The University of Tennessee has reinstated a professor who was indicted and then exonerated on charges of keeping his connections with a Chinese university secret while receiving NASA grants. Anming Hu, a nanotechnology expert, returned to his position at the university in […]
The event’s organizers argue that dressing professionally upholds “white supremacy” In a virtual talk scheduled for February 1, students at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, will hear how “professionalism,” understood here as codes of dress, behavior and etiquette in the workplace, is actually racist. The university’s website explains that “the term ‘professionalism’ has at […]
One student died and three were injured after a lone gunman opened fire in a German university A 23-year-old woman died from her injuries following a shooting attack at the Heidelberg University, Mannheim’s police chief Siegfried Kollmar said at a press conference in the wake of the Monday attack. Three more people – all of […]
A lone wolf attacker injured several people in a lecture hall at a university in Heidelberg, Germany, police have said Four people have been injured in a shooting inside a university lecture hall in the southwestern German city of Heidelberg, police said on Monday. Officers said the attacker was dead. The perpetrator assaulted his victims with […]
The guide suggests employees recommend to others that they stop using offensive words The University of Washington’s information technology department has released a new language guide highlighting “problematic words” that are commonly used but are supposedly racist, sexist, ageist, or homophobic. On this list of words to be avoided are “grandfather,” “housekeeping,” “minority,” “ninja,” and even “lame.” […]
Students are being warned of ‘explicit material’ awaiting them in a novel that, ironically, describes the dangers of censorship The University of Northampton has issued a harsh warning over potentially “offensive and upsetting” material contained in the famous dystopia by George Orwell, ‘1984.’ The novel, which describes the dangers of totalitarian rule and censorship, is […]
A federal investigation is ongoing despite Brigham Young University claiming its ban on same-sex relationships enjoys religious exemptions under a civil rights law The US Department of Education is conducting a civil-rights investigation to determine whether LGBTQ students face discrimination at Brigham Young University (BYU), a Utah-based private educational institution run by the Mormon Church, […]
Kenyan authorities are offering a total reward of 60 million shillings (around $535,000) for any information on the whereabouts of three terrorist suspects who escaped from a maximum-security prison on Monday. The country’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations published a series of tweets with photos and brief descriptions of the fugitives. pic.twitter.com/H39zKdVHIg — DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) […]
China is facing its biggest surge of the Delta variant of the coronavirus, putting the zero-case policy to the test. Restrictions were imposed on a university town in the country’s northeast. More than 10,000 students were placed under quarantine after two large dorms were closed down in the university town of Zhuanghe, which is under […]