A blocky artificial knee joint that can be produced for around $20 is at the heart of a dispute between Stanford University and LeTourneau University, a small Christian institution in the Piney Woods of East Texas.

Student researchers at both universities have developed strikingly similar models with the goal of helping transform the lives of amputees in developing countries.

So when Time magazine this month...

There are plenty of reasons for anxiety and perhaps even unrest at California State University-Stanislaus. The campus is coping this year with a $13.5-million budget cut, which has led to furloughs, reduced enrollment, and the elimination of a winter term. But when faculty critics explain why they voted no confidence last week in the university's president, Hamid Shirvani, Exhibit A is a commentary he wrote for The Chronicle.

The no-confidence resolution passed with the...

The 32 American Rhodes Scholars for 2010 come from 23 universities and colleges across the United States, including one that has never before had a recipient of the prestigious awards, Truman State University, in Missouri.

The scholarships, announced by the American secretary of the Rhodes Trust on Sunday, provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford, in England. This year's winners will enter Oxford...