Navigating deepfakes and synthetic media: This course helps students demystify artificial intelligence technologies
The course explores two themes: AI literacy and building resilience to misinformation. Students learn AI technologies such as natural language processing, which allows machines to understand and ...
Analysis: UT undergoes 8 major leadership changes in year before president resigns
University of Texas President Jay Hartzell's resignation was sudden, but an analysis shows it was just the latest in a string ...
Lackawanna County PSSA scores show students still feeling the effects of COVID-related learning loss
Nearly five years after schools around the state were forced to pivot to online instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...
Newly discovered photos of Nazi deportations show Jewish victims as they were last seen alive
Berline, born in 1925, escaped Nazi Germany in 1939. She did not remember how her family obtained the images but recalled the photographer as Otto Weissbach, a “wonderful” man who had helped Fulda’s ...
I’m an MLK scholar – and I’ll never be able to view King in the same light
The information contained in the memos won’t be confirmed until 2027. That’s when the FBI’s full audiotapes, photographs and film footage of King will be unsealed per a 1977 court order.
Seizure of Sally Mann’s photographs in Texas revives old debates about obscenity and freedom of expression
(THE CONVERSATION) Four photographs by celebrated artist Sally Mann were recently removed from the walls of an exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at the behest of local Republican ...
Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’
Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the detention facility. Obama, who signed an executive order on his second day ...
An overlooked defense in faculty First Amendment academic freedom and other cases
Mark Meyerhoff and David Urban of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore discuss the doctrine of claim preclusion as a defense to lawsuits ...
For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for
Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...
Red light therapy shows promise for pain relief, inflammation and skin conditions – but other claims might be hyped
(THE CONVERSATION) Red light therapy is increasingly viewed as a promising treatment for wrinkles, acne, psoriasis, scars and sun-damaged skin, and as a supportive therapy for some kinds of cancer.
Mary McLeod Bethune, known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ also sought to unify the African diaspora
In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...
Republican Proposal Would Make College Scholarships Taxable Income
Republican lawmakers are considering making college scholarships fully taxable to help pay for continuing tax cuts that ...