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Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.

June 1964. Over 1,000 volunteers head to Mississippi to register black voters. By August, 4 people were dead, 80 beaten, 1,000 arrested, 67 churches, homes and businesses burned or bombed.

The government is expanding its "mystery disease" program, funding a network at six universities around the country to help diagnose patients with diseases so rare they've been told they're undiagnosable.

David Garland Halliburton, professor emeritus of English, died June 2 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.

The Center for School Reform has released a report on the cost of charter schools for the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, a non-partisan think tank that favors lean, accountable government.

Hammonds and Huchro were co-valedictorians. Both young women graduated with high honors and were named to the Cum Laude Society in their senior year.

Scientists have found a way to estimate uncertainties in computer calculations that are widely used to speed the search for new materials for industry, electronics, energy, drug design and a host of other applications.

Princeton Ballet School's Summer Intensive Program will be hosting several guest teachers this year, including New York City Ballet dancer Unity Phelan .

The polarization of American politics now extends to the issue of whether interest rates should be determined by mathematical formulas.

JULY 09: A visitor looks at a display of tanks and military vehicles during a preview of Auction America's Littlefield Collection auction on July 9, 2014 in Portola Valley, California.

The volunteer group Murals in Mo'town is working on funding for its second city mural.

A new study by Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that America's obesity epidemic might be more influenced by a lack of exercise than excess calorie consumption, the LA Times reports .

A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday approved San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, clearing the way for a final vote in the full Senate.

The Los Angeles Times has reported that obesity is linked to lack of exercise. A new study suggests that under-exercising, rather than overeating, may be at the heart of America's obesity epidemic.

He had always known his career path would take him toward surgery, but he hadn't decided on a specialty.

Groups in other states are beginning to mimic a California lawsuit that succeeded in declaring the state's teacher tenure laws unconstitutional.

Dr. William "Bro" Adams, who served as president of Colby College from 2000 until he retired in June, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Wednesday as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Castro, 39, is seen as a rising Democratic party star. He was the keynote speaker at the party's 2012 national convention.

Now available to entrepreneurs and students on a global scale, Cogswell's Silicon Valley Immersion Experience just hosted its first group of participants - a team of entrepreneurs from Turkey.

School finance reformers have long divided themselves into two camps. On one side, there are the advocates who argue for increased fiscal equity.