Organising a conference is a really super thing to have on the academic CV. As the organiser you get to see papers early in their development stage, be part of the future direction of your field, have ...

Like colleges and universities, scholarly associations had been looking forward to something resembling a normal academic year. That meant scheduling in-person annual conferences again, after more ...

I just finished my fourteenth year as a professor at Union College, which means it probably shouldn't seem weird that I get asked for career advice. And yet, it still kind of does. Some of this is a ...

[This is a guest post by Stan Kurkovsky, a professor of computer science at CCSU. Stan and I are teaching a course abroad next year called Secrecy: Science & Fiction. (I totally can’t believe I’ve ...

Academic conferences get a bad press. For the Friday night regulars in your local, they are a talking shop where the simple is made incomprehensible. For your supervisors, they are places where ...

One of the most useful sessions at last week's DAMOP meeting (for me, anyway) was the invited session on "Turning Physics Students Into Physicists". This was organized by the APS Forum on Education, ...

On September 20th, I gave a poster presentation at the Japanese Association of Special Education held in Kobe. This ...

The Graduate School of Business (GSB) will host its Academic Freedom Conference from Nov. 4-5. The conference, which has stirred controversy over its speaker lineup and initial decision to be closed ...

Academic conferences have evolved far beyond their traditional role as venues for presenting research. In 2026, they are increasingly serving as career-building platforms where researchers establish ...

Academic travel and conferencing have long supported the exchange of ideas, but they also contribute substantially to global greenhouse-gas emissions. Recent efforts have focused on reconciling the ...

"I couldn't get a lunch box"This is a phrase often heard when attending medical academic conferences. Popular luncheon ...

We need more kids at our academic conferences. More babies. More toddlers. More school-agers. More teenagers. Seeing our colleagues with their kids at a conference is awesome. Babies, toddlers, and ...