Raul J. Gomzalez

Michigan State University confirmed a new president Friday, in an attempt to introduce a permanent leader after years of change, scandals and infighting.Kevin M. Guskiewicz, a neuroscientist who has served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2019, was unanimously elected president by the board of trustees on Friday and will begin his term in March.Dr. Guskiewicz is the sixth Michigan State president in six years. The university was rocked by a sexual abuse scandal when Larry Nassar, a doctor who worked with gymnasts at the school, pleaded guilty in 2017 to sexually abusing girls…

SmileDirectClub, a telehealth company that sold teeth-straightening devices by mail order and faced criticism from medical groups, said Friday it had closed.The company, founded in 2014, sold dental aligners online and in its stores for $1,850. He marketed them as a faster, cheaper alternative to braces. SmileDirectClub's initial public offering in 2019 valued it at $8.9 billion.SmileDirectClub served more than two million customers for almost a decade. But the company was unprofitable and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September with nearly $900 million in debt, court documents and financial statements show. And this year, it settled a lawsuit from…

Toby Gould was an early adopter. In September, Gould, 78, went to a pharmacy in Hyannis, Massachusetts, to receive one of the new vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV. He has asthma, which would increase his risk of getting seriously ill if he had to. be infected.Carol Kerton, 64, knew RSV could be dangerous: Her 3-year-old granddaughter had a case so severe that she was taken to an emergency room. Ms. Kerton was vaccinated in September at a local supermarket in Daytona Beach, Florida.Sam Delson, 63, received the RSV vaccine last month in Sacramento. His doctor recommended it,…

The United States has embarked on the biggest industrial policy push in generations, offering tax breaks, subsidies and other financial incentives to attract new factories making solar panels, semiconductors and electric vehicles.That spending is aimed at reviving the domestic market for crucial products, but it has implications far beyond the United States. It is pushing governments from Europe to East Asia to try to keep up by proposing their own investment plans, triggering what some call a global subsidy race.Officials, particularly in Europe, have accused the United States of protectionism and have spent months complaining to the Biden administration about…

The couple didn't quite remember when the 61-year-old started getting sick. Was it before you retired last spring? No, it was later, the man insisted. But both men agreed that they knew something was very wrong the day the recently retired man fell while he was walking up the stairs. He was carrying his new laptop when his right leg suddenly buckled. If he hadn't had the computer, maybe he would have been able to recover. Instead, holding his new machine up, he fell forward and slid down a couple of steps. He scraped his shins and forearms; His blood…

Harvard President Claudine Gay apologized to the university community for her testimony before Congress, where she gave evasive answers to questions about whether calls for the genocide of Jews would violate campus policies."I'm sorry," Dr. Gay said in an interview with the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, published on Friday. "Words matter."“When words amplify anguish and pain, I don't know how you can feel anything but regret,” he said.The interview came as Dr. Gay faced a storm of repercussions, including the abrupt resignation of a rabbi from Harvard's anti-Semitism advisory committee, the launch of a congressional investigation and even suggestions…

Palestinian academic and activist Refaat Alareer was killed in an airstrike in northern Gaza on Wednesday, according to his father-in-law. He was 44 years old.Alareer, a literature professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, became known outside the territory for editing two books of essays and short fiction in English about the struggles of life in Gaza, “Gaza Writes Back” and “Gaza Unsilenced.”Alareer, who also wrote his own poetry and short fiction, gained a following around the world for his political activism on behalf of the Palestinians. But in Israel he was known for comments he made online and in…