The applicant, a vice president at SUNY-Buffalo, had requested that his candidacy be kept confidential.

Leaders of academe and business will press for Congressional action to increase spending on research.

The money will endow a fellowship for one graduate student in astrophysics and cosmology every year.

Bridging its left and right brains, Carnegie Mellon University is starting a new music-technology program.

If Congress wants more low-income students to enroll in college, it should provide larger Pell Grants to the poorest of them, says a new report.

Freebies can influence prescribing habits and erode public confidence, the report concludes.

James B. Twitchell, an oft-quoted expert on marketing and consumerism, has apparently been quoting other authorities for years — but without quote marks.

Two small clinical trials involving people with a rare blinding disease indicate that the troubled field may yet produce positive results.

The new technology, called VisualRank, can potentially add greater precision to image searches.

The business school’s dean quits, following the provost’s resignation.

Researchers who analyzed studies of blood substitutes found that lives might have been saved if the clinical results had been published.

A server is hacked into, exposing confidential data on 11,000 people.

The vice chancellor says his university’s rules on plagiarism do not apply to a newspaper commentary he wrote.

The provost, Gerald E. Lang, said the controversy had harmed the university’s reputation.

The college might reopen in 2012, after restructuring, and its indefinite fate colored the bittersweet ceremony in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The woman was found comatose at her professor’s home.

Manmohan Singh says his country’ higher-education system has lost its tradition of research-oriented instruction.

No one is hurt, but the effectiveness of the university’s emergency-notification system is questioned.

Students come together online to celebrate, and express frustrations about, technology.

An Internal Revenue Service official called for more-aggressive action on college endowments’ spending levels.

Seabury-Western Theological Seminary told its tenured professors that their jobs would end next year.

Randolph College says it will auction a Rufino Tamayo painting in May despite efforts by critics to block the sale.

Librarians and archivists herald lawmakers’ introduction of orphan-works bills.

David Rockefeller has pledged $100-million to Harvard, the largest gift from an alumnus in the university’s history.

Two studies find that the writing section beats the mathematics and critical-reading portions in predictive power.