Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
July 11th, 2009 at 4:50PM
Hoo boy, that facebook note you link to is a piece of work.
Here’s a UCLA press release about a chair named in his honor. It all sounds very Hollywood.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:07PM
I’m glad you liked it, RJO. I agree it’s a real piece of work.
Highlights:
“…Most recently, in honor of his dear friend Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Dr. Klein established the endowment for the Elizabeth Taylor Center for AIDS Research, Treatment and Education at UCLA, a facility with an international reputation in HIV/AIDS care.
… The Hereditary Disease Foundation discovered the first gene for Huntington’s chorea. Dr. Klein, along with his longtime friend Frank Gehry (one of the world’s most influential architects), works with the foundation to raise funds and awareness for inherited diseases.
… Dr. Klein has published nearly 150 scientific papers in such prestigious peer-reviewed journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, Science Magazine and JAMA. He has written four medical textbooks, including his most recent, Tissue Augmentation in Clinical Practice, second Edition. Additionally, he has written numerous textbook chapters on Cosmetic Dermatology, Soft Tissue Augmentation, Aesthetic Surgery, and Botulinum Toxin. He also serves and has served on the Editorial Board and as Expert Reviewer of numerous national and international medical publications, including the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Dermatologic Surgery, Archives of Dermatology, Aesthetic Surgery, Aesthetic Buyers Guide, British Journal of Dermatology and the Journal of Cutaneous Aging and Cosmetic Dermatology, to name a few.
Dr. Klein has also served as an advisor, consultant, and principal investigator to Allergan, Anika, Elan Pharmaceuticals, Ethicon, Genzyme, Johnson & Johnson, Medicis Aesthetics, Ortho-Neutrogena, Skin-Medica, and Q-Med. In February of 2006, he was given the Allergan Award for Pioneering Work in Soft Tissue Augmentation, just one of many awards presented to Dr. Klein throughout his career.”