Stuck in the airport returning home from an emotionally exhausting day, tired and fighting an awful chest cold, my flight delayed to the wee hours of the morning, I stretched out on the seats in the ...

Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez gave her Last Lecture on May 14 to an auditorium filled with Bruins, her former students and fellow faculty. Thousands of Bruins voted for Ghez – who was one of 260 faculty ...

“There are stories behind everything on campus and they teach us about how we got to be where we are,” said Corey Earle ’07, an American studies lecturer. “Every name on every building has a story and ...

Time seems infinite when you’re a kid, elusive when you’re an adult, and precious when you’re near death. “Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think,” wrote ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Back in 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch delivered a lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. He called the ...

Randy Pausch, a computer-science professor who became internationally known for his inspiring “Last Lecture,” passed away in Chesapeake, Virginia, Friday after losing a battle with pancreatic cancer.

It wound up taking place two years later than expected, but University Historian James O’Toole has delivered his “last lec­ture” at Boston College. O’Toole, the Clough Millennium Pro­fessor of History ...

Made famous by his “Last Lecture” at Carnegie Mellon and the quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch decided that maybe he just wasn't done lecturing. Despite being several ...