David Clarke’s Plagiarized Masters Thesis

David Clarke, recently appointed as an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security and infamous former Milwaukee County sheriff, plagiarized significant portions of his thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School. First, as many on my Twitter feed noted when this broke last evening, this offense pales in comparison to the outrages he committed as sheriff.

Retired astronaut Scott Kelly to speak at UT in August Read Story Mark Bergin

Retired U.S. astronaut and University of Tennessee Space Institute graduate Scott Kelly will speak at the school's "Welcome Week Life of Mind" celebration. Kelly's talk is a part of UT's First-Year Studies 100 class, which is a zero-credit pass-fail class that gives students their first taste of college studies.