Hundreds of Georgetown students are supporting a petition demanding the university reconsider its tenure rejection of Dr. Mubbashir Rizvi. The petition contends that Rizvi, a professor in the anthropology department who has taught at the university since 2013, faced racial bias and Islamophobia within the tenure process.
A committee of five faculty members reportedly rejected the tenure application on the grounds of Rizvi’s “teaching performance” and “sustainable trajectory of research.” According to the petition, Rizvi’s tenure was denied in spite of his numerous anthropological studies, positive peer evaluations, and favorable student reviews. After the tenure decision last August, numerous Georgetown colleagues and academics in Rizvi’s field at Georgetown and institutions around the country also rose to his support in written statements.
Subject: The Edge: What Does It Mean if a Big Prize for Student Success Has No Winner?
I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at
The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week.
What ever happened to that $5-million prize for a student-success app?
I never thought it would take more than six years to report to you the results of the College Success Prize I first covered in 2015. The delay has a little to do with more-pressing news and, to be candid, my own failure to consistently and insistently follow up. But another part of the story is an unexpected conclusion to this experiment in identifying new ways to promote disadvantaged students’ progress in college.
Israeli researchers join global bid to talk to whales
Haifa University marine scientists participating in 5-year multidisciplinary study, using machine learning and non-invasive robotics to try to decipher how the marine mammals communicate and whether it can be replicated by humans
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Published: 04.21.21 , 17:27
Researchers at Haifa University have embarked on an ambitious new global research project that hopes to decipher sperm whale communication and enable humans to understand their dialogue.
The Israeli university has joined forces with The City University of New York (CUNY), Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College London, U.C. Berkeley and others.
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We all know whales communicate with one another, but what if we could understand what they say, and communicate our own thoughts back to them?
That’s what marine scientists from the University of Haifa, and top universities across the world hope to do with a new five-year research study to decipher how Sperm whales communicate and whether their speech patterns can be replicated so humans can communicate with them.
The new interdisciplinary Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) kicks off this week at a press conference in Dominica in the Caribbean, where the project will take place.
University of Haifa scientists will be joined by colleagues in marine biology, marine acoustics, artificial intelligence, and linguistics from Harvard University, The City University of New York (CUNY), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College London, U.C. Berkeley and others.
University of Haifa to take part in research aiming to communicate with whales
University of Haifa to take part in research aiming to communicate with whales
The project, estimated to last at least five years, will combine expertise from marine biology, acoustics, artificial intelligence and linguistics.
Three sperm whale calves. Credit: Amanda Cotton.
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(April 21, 2021 / JNS) The University of Haifa has embarked on a global research project to learn how to decipher sperm whale communication, which may enable humans to understand the dialogue between these large sea creatures.
To that end, it has joined forces with educational institutions such as the City University of New York, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London and the University of California, Berkeley. At a press conference held this week in Dominica in the Caribbean, where the project will take place, researchers revealed plans for what they are calling th