Who is Uju Anya and what is the controversy? Carnegie Mellon professor faces probe over social media posts
Carnegie Mellon University professor Dr Uju Anya is facing scrutiny over a series of old social media posts that have recently resurfaced online. The posts, which included comments about the deaths of public figures that went viral. Dr Uju Anya is on…
Malaysian university fires professor who claimed Malays could fly; they taught Romans shipbuilding
Malaysian university fires professor who claimed Malays could fly. Solehah Yaacob, a former linguistics professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia, went viral last year because of her strange claims, including one that said Malays could…
‘Zero self-awareness’: Indian-origin professor slams viral video of woman welcoming parents at US airport triggering wheelchair row
A woman’s celebratory video of welcoming her parents to the US has gone viral. Videos of Indians using wheelchairs at international airports surface on social media from time to time. This time, a video of an Indian woman apparently welcoming her…
RANDOM MUSING | Who ‘killed’ Jason Arday? The absurd tragedy of Cambridge’s ‘youngest black professor’
There is a saying among bibliophiles: Never judge a book by its movie. For true readers, nothing any director dreams up can ever match the cinema playing inside one’s head, to borrow a line from Anurag Kashyap’s greatest villain. Two rare adaptations…
Meet Nathan Thomas: 18-year-old Florida teen becomes the worlds youngest male professor after breaking a 306-year-old record
At an age when many students are just beginning university, Nathan Thomas had already stepped into the classroom as a college professor. The Florida native earned a place in the Guinness World Records after becoming the world’s youngest male…