A digest of podcasts and audio interviews featuring Academy staff, Members, and other topics applicable to the advancement of science for the public good.
Nicholas B. Dirks, President and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences, reflects on the challenges he encountered and the lessons he learned during his long career in university leadership, from being chair of the Anthropology department at Columbia, to his time as EVP and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences also at Columbia, and then as chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, in a newly published book.
Pressure is growing on Harvard University amid calls for President Claudine Gay to resign after allegations of plagiarism, the latest controversy to engulf the prestigious institution in recent months. Gay has had to issue numerous corrections to previous papers in the past few weeks after plagiarism allegations were raised for work by her that…