Maddie Khaw

2 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Maddie Khaw

Matthias Doepke has spent 30 years in the United States, most recently as a professor at Northwestern University. Doepke, a German-born economist, became a naturalized American citizen over a decade ago. This week, he said, he resigned from Northwestern and sold his family’s house near the campus.

3 weeks ago | chronicle.com | Maddie Khaw

One morning in late March, Judah Lloyd, a 22-year-old senior at Wellesley College, received an email that sent him into a panic. Non-tenure-track faculty at the women’s liberal-arts college had gone on strike, administrators wrote. Courses taught by those faculty would not meet during the strike, so some of those classes would have to be reduced from one credit to half a credit. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Maddie Khaw

You know the rap on Gen Z students: Our attention spans have been ravaged by TikTok and texting. We can’t read, or we don’t want to. We’re more isolated, anxious, and antisocial than past generations at our age — partly because we’ve lived large swaths of our lives through screens. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Maddie Khaw

When Donna Farber saw a Science article on Wednesday reporting that all of Columbia University’s National Institutes of Health grants had been frozen, it confirmed what she already knew. But Farber, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia, was still shaken. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Maddie Khaw

What’s newThe National Institutes of Health and its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, acted illegally and recklessly in terminating hundreds of research grants, a new lawsuit against the Trump administration argues. The complaint was filed Wednesday by the American Public Health Association and the United Auto Workers union, which represents thousands of higher-education workers who rely on NIH funding.