Athar Abdul-Quader
@atharaq.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Chair of Mathematics/CS at SUNY Purchase
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NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
February 8, 2026 at 3:44 AM
NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
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I am in full solidarity with any action Columbia faculty want to do. I will stand out there with you. Will show up to whatever you ask. But you have to do something. Enough enough enough. This is doing so so much damage.
May 8, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I am in full solidarity with any action Columbia faculty want to do. I will stand out there with you. Will show up to whatever you ask. But you have to do something. Enough enough enough. This is doing so so much damage.
nylogic.github.io/2025/04/22/s... Logicians: today (4/22) we will be hosting a special online conference to honor JIm Schmerl on his 85th birthday. Angus Macintyre, Ali Enayat, Ermek Nurkhaidarov, Stephen Simpson, David Marker, Manuel Lerman, and Matt Kauffman will speak.
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April 22 Special Session to Honor Jim Schmerl on His 85th Birthday Session 1 (11:00 AM - 1:30 PM): 11:00 - 11:05 Welcome 11:05 - 11:35 Angus Macintyre 11:40 - 12:10 Ali Enayat 12:10 - 12:25 Coffee bre...
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April 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
nylogic.github.io/2025/04/22/s... Logicians: today (4/22) we will be hosting a special online conference to honor JIm Schmerl on his 85th birthday. Angus Macintyre, Ali Enayat, Ermek Nurkhaidarov, Stephen Simpson, David Marker, Manuel Lerman, and Matt Kauffman will speak.
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feel for the students who were counting on this money, but what an excellent time for mathematicians to part ways with the NSA #MathMinusMilitarism
NSA cancelled its MSP (Math Sciences Program) -- meaning all current grants (conferences, REUs, summer workshops, etc.) are cut effectively immediately. www.nsa.gov/Research/Mat...
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April 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
feel for the students who were counting on this money, but what an excellent time for mathematicians to part ways with the NSA #MathMinusMilitarism
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Our colleges & universities should encourage, not suppress, open & vigorous dialogue & debate about even the most deeply held beliefs.
Trump’s threats against student protesters are antithetical to the mission of higher education.
We strongly condemn them.
www.aaup.org/news/threats...
Trump’s threats against student protesters are antithetical to the mission of higher education.
We strongly condemn them.
www.aaup.org/news/threats...
Threats to Student Protest Are Antithetical to the Mission of Higher Education
The AAUP defends the right to free speech and peaceful protest on college and university campuses, a time-honored tradition protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Donald T...
www.aaup.org
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Our colleges & universities should encourage, not suppress, open & vigorous dialogue & debate about even the most deeply held beliefs.
Trump’s threats against student protesters are antithetical to the mission of higher education.
We strongly condemn them.
www.aaup.org/news/threats...
Trump’s threats against student protesters are antithetical to the mission of higher education.
We strongly condemn them.
www.aaup.org/news/threats...
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Every faculty who supported police on campus, every one who refused to sign letters of support for their brutalized students: you laid the bricks for politicians to believe they have the authority to crush student voice.
Your racism against Palestine is corroding everyone's freedoms.
Your racism against Palestine is corroding everyone's freedoms.
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Every faculty who supported police on campus, every one who refused to sign letters of support for their brutalized students: you laid the bricks for politicians to believe they have the authority to crush student voice.
Your racism against Palestine is corroding everyone's freedoms.
Your racism against Palestine is corroding everyone's freedoms.
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This act is unequivocally anti-Muslim, it is an intentional desecration of the holy month; it is another iteration of the ethnosupremacy that has been a defining feature of the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
March 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This act is unequivocally anti-Muslim, it is an intentional desecration of the holy month; it is another iteration of the ethnosupremacy that has been a defining feature of the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians.
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“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.”
Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here:
www.aaup.org/news/governo...
Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here:
www.aaup.org/news/governo...
Governor Should Withdraw CUNY Interference
After New York governor Kathy Hochul earlier this week ordered the City University of New York to remove a job posting for a professorship in Palestinian studies, AAUP president Todd Wolfson is urging...
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March 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.”
Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here:
www.aaup.org/news/governo...
Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here:
www.aaup.org/news/governo...
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I would like to emphasize that the governor of the state of NY, a democrat, intervened in college activities, something she has no business in, for political reasons. This is authoritarianism. Period. And the coverage is not nearly as forceful as that reality requires.
February 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I would like to emphasize that the governor of the state of NY, a democrat, intervened in college activities, something she has no business in, for political reasons. This is authoritarianism. Period. And the coverage is not nearly as forceful as that reality requires.