Category: Education

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Monday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to prevail on the executive secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, to account...

Lindsay Kast had a different experience in high school than most of her peers.   The Tell City, Ind., native missed out on senior prom and never took study hall...

With two highly successful novels under her belt, it is perhaps unsurprising that with her third novel, Americanah, Chimamanda Adichie has scored a hattrick. Adichie is adept at speaking to...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Last September, a professor from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis opened a container of rotten chicken meat on campus and waited for the smell of decaying flesh to draw...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A team of researchers from Indiana University and Rutgers University has developed a new approach that could help better pinpoint therapies for children with autism.   The method...

21. Pasteurize. My scientist readers said they would not forgive me if I fail to mention this word in my list. Even people who aren’t medical scientists know that pasteurize...

15. Lynch/lynching. Most people know“lynch” to mean the extra-judicial murder, often by hanging, carried out by a gang of people. Over the years, hanging has ceased to be an intrinsic...

9. Dunce.  This alternative word for a stupid person owes its origins to John Duns Scotus, a previously well-regarded, beatified (i.e., declared as holy and worthy of reverence by the...

A few weeks ago, I had a lighthearted discussion with a friend about my abiding fascination with unusual words and their etymologies (that is, their origin, history, and development) and...

Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging are inflicting tremendous violence on writing and grammar at alarmingly unimaginable scales. The annoying, sometimes frustratingly cryptic, abbreviations that social media have spawned in the...