Harvard row over sex and science
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The president of Harvard University angers women academics by saying men may naturally be better at science.
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A debate is festering among graduates and parents at St. Paul's, an elite school in New Hampshire, with critics accusing trustees and the rector of mismanagement.
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Andrew Davies is talking about sex. He is also talking about Jane Austen, beloved chronicler of early 19th century English manners.
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The university's blunt president sparks a furor about women. Is he hurting the Ivy's brand?
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Harvard University students:  overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A  little of both, it seems.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,  - Harvard University students:  overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A  little of both, it seems.
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The suggestion by Harvard University's president that innate differences might explain why women lag in science and math could hurt efforts to recruit female scholars, a faculty committee said.
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Liberal critics periodically complain that federally funded "abstinence only" sex-education materials are full of false or misleading statements about the effectiveness of condoms and other issues.  Now the Bush administration is firing back, charging that programs that endorse condom use also are...
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CHICAGOâBeyond the tired clichÃ©s and sperm-and-egg basics taught in grade school science class, researchers are discovering that men and women are even more different than anyone realized.
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Britain's scientific community fuels controversies by shunning colleagues with rebel ideas, research suggests.
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A leading girls' school head teacher has said it makes her "mad" when people dismiss single-sex education.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies. Now experts say the Sept. 11 attacks have put new fire in the battle over just where academic freedom ends and misconduct &#151; or even treason &#151; begins.
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The Harvard football team, already racked by the dismissal of its captain for alleged domestic assault and the five-game suspension of its quarterback for an unspecified transgression, plays its Ivy League opener at Brown today amid yet another controversy: the dismissal of a wide receiver over a sketch he performed on the team's traditional Skit Night.
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A debate over an anthropologist's book on ancient Hebrew history isn't just academic &#151; it's spilled over into an online dispute between critics trying to keep her from getting tenure and supporters who say the effort stifles scholarly freedom.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Efforts to attract top female  scholars to Harvard University could be hurt by the Ivy League  school president's suggestion that women do not have the same  natural ability in math and sciences as men, a group of Harvard  professors said.
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(Corrects name of Harvard Universityâs John F. Kennedy School of Government in paragraph 21)
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Some scientists are thinking twice about doing or reporting certain research, reacting to political and social controversy in addition to legal restrictions.