All posts tagged "Professor"

An adjunct art professor at CUNY Hunter College in New York City who went viral for erupting on a group of pro-life students who set up a display has been fired after she put a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter, the news outlet reported.

Shellyne Rodriguez was fired just hours after she was caught on video opening her door to her Bronx apartment and brandishing a machete, which she then held to the neck of the reporter, telling him, "Get the f--- away from my door."

“Hunter College strongly condemns the unacceptable actions of Shellyne Rodriguez and has taken immediate action,” school spokesman Vince Dimiceli told The Post. “Rodriguez has been relieved of her duties at Hunter College effective immediately, and will not be returning to teach at the school.”...

It isn't just humans, apes, dolphins, birds, and octopuses who use tools. Even fish have been spied using rocks to break open shellfish -- and now a video of an orange-dotted tuskfish doing just that is available to prove the claim.

WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday denied allegations by an ex-spy that it had sought information on a US professor who was critical of the Iraq war in order to discredit him.

WASHINGTON — Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman, after not quite two years as US President Barack Obama's ambassador to China, has returned home to weigh whether to seek the White House for himself in 2012.

WASHINGTON – Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change, experts warned at a major science conference that ended here Monday.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — A woman biology professor accused of murdering three University of Alabama colleagues after she had been denied a promotion was in US police custody Sunday, as a new report emerged about a fatal shooting in her past.