USC professor fatally stabbed by PhD student

David Brown stabbed psychology professor Bosco Tjan after a "personal dispute."



Damn. In Los Angeles, a doctoral student at the University of Southern California was taken into custody after stabbing and killing a psychology professor in a campus building on Friday afternoon.

USC PhD student accused of fatally stabbing professor on campus

28-year-old David Jonathan Brown, PhD student in brain and cognitive science, is accused of fatally stabbing Bosco Tjan, a co-director of USC's Dornsife Cognitive Neuroimaging Center.

Police received a 911 call from USC's University Park campus about a victim with multiple stab wounds. Emergency responders found Tjan's body in a science building. He had been stabbed in the chest.

Dartmouth community speaks out after popular Asian American professor denied tenure

Aimee Bahng, assistant professor of English, was denied tenure despite unanimous department approval.



At Dartmouth College, the campus community has recently been rocked by the inexplicable denial of tenure for Aimee Bahng, assistant professor of English. Earlier this month, Bahng was denied tenure despite the unanimous approval by the English department's tenure committee.

Campus unrest follows tenure denial of innovative, popular faculty member of color

Bahng has been an Assistant Professor of English at Darthmouth since 2009. Her scholarship connects Asian American literary studies, speculative fiction and finance, technology and post-humanist inquiry. Fellow professors and students say Bahng deserves a permanent position on campus.

They also say Bahng's tenure denial speaks to bigger questions about Dartmouth's commitment to diversity, and is part of a disturbing trend in which department votes for tenure and unanimous recommendations for tenure are overruled by deans or the Committee Advisory to the President.

Pioneering Asian American scholar Don T. Nakanishi dies

Former UCLA professor was widely recognized as one of the forefathers of Asian American Studies.



A legendary scholar and leader has passed. Professor Don T. Nakanishi, Director Emeritus of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and a pioneer in the field of Asian American Studies, has died. He was 66.

Professor Nakanishi was the Director Emeritus of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the largest and most renowned research and teaching institute in Asian American Studies in the nation, and Professor Emeritus of UCLA's departments of Asian American Studies and education.

A trailblazing educator, beloved community leader and mentor to generations of scholars and activists, he was considered one of the forefathers of Asian American Studies as an academic discipline.

Professor Nakanishi passed away Monday afternoon in Los Angeles. His family shared the news via Facebook:

Finally, an Asian guy who's good at math.

Exciting news from the world of mathematics! This news is actually a couple of months old... Francis Su, a math professor at Harvey Mudd College in California, was recently elected the president of the Mathematical Association of America: Francis Su Elected MAA President.

Su is the first Asian American, and first person of color (seriously, no kidding), to serve as President of the Mathematical Association of America, in its nearly 100 years of existence. It is about time, yo.

The MAA is the largest professional society that focuses on mathematics at the undergraduate level. Su will serve as the organization's 55th president, and is one of the youngest presidents in MAA's history.

Professor sues Macalester College for discrimination

Discrimination! At Macalester College in Minnesota, an Asian American professor is suing the school for discrimination in the promotion process: English professor brings discrimination suit.

Wang Ping, who teaches creative writing, poetry and fiction at Macalester, claims that she was unlawfully discriminated against by the college on the basis of gender, race and national origin.

In the lawsuit, filed under the Minnesota Human Rights Act, Wang is requesting ompensation for all earnings, wages, and other benefits she contends that she would have received if it weren't for the alleged discriminatory practices of the college.

She is also requesting damages for the mental anguish and emotional distress she has suffered, and a declaratory judgement that the College's practices related to her promotion process are unlawful: