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Obama's Budget Shuffles STEM Education Deck
The president's 2013 budget for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs at the Department of Education has a very familiar ring to science educators. That's the case...
Basic Research Gets A Pass at Pentagon
Science appears to be on offense at the Department of Defense (DOD). As the Pentagon prepares to downsize by about $5 billion, it's making an exception in its budget...
February 8, 2012 3:45 PM
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PCAST Remedy for Undergraduate Science Is a Tall Order
A new report from a presidential panel offers a clear and seemingly simple recipe for improving U.S. undergraduate science, engineering, and math education and attracting more students into those...
February 3, 2012 4:36 PM
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In the Eye of the Creationist Storm
Bruce Kendall says he's proud to call himself "a Jesus man." For the past 36 years he's also been a high school science teacher at Mt. Vernon High School...
France Picks Five More University Groups for Major Investment
PARIS—French Prime Minister François Fillon today announced that five more conglomerates of universities and other institutes will receive a massive capital injection aimed at catapulting them into the international...
February 3, 2012 1:45 PM
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Creationist School Bill Looks Doomed in Indiana
Legislators in Indiana appear to have fallen short of their goal of injecting creationism into U.S. public schools, at least for this year. However, they did deploy a few...
January 30, 2012 12:42 PM
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New CUNY Curriculum Squeezes Science
To succeed, any effort to improve U.S. undergraduate science instruction and attract more minorities into the field must extend beyond the tiny fraction of students educated at the country's...
January 27, 2012 3:53 PM
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National Academy Picks UC Administrator for Top Staff Job
A jack-of-all-trades in the U.S. science policy arena, Bruce Darling says that becoming executive officer of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will put him right exactly where...
University of Tokyo Considers Shifting Academic Year
Worried about being left behind in the globalization of higher education, the University of Tokyo is laying plans to shift the start of its school year from April to...
U.K. Looks for Way Through Misconduct Maze
LONDON—Scientific misconduct is "alive and well" in the United Kingdom, according to around 30 ethicists, researchers, journal editors, advocates, and funders attending a meeting on that topic sponsored by...
December 21, 2011 2:03 PM
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Berkeley Issues Plan to Improve Diversity in Engineering
Promising "disruptive progress," the engineering college at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, has named an associate dean for equity and inclusion to help it increase the number of...
Conferees Strike a Deal on Programs for High-Tech Startups
After 5 years of tough negotiations, Congress has agreed to increase funding for two programs that try to turn scientific discoveries into profitable businesses by increasing how much 11...
November 22, 2011 2:37 PM
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Berkeley Struggles with Student Diversity in Engineering
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—Privately funded scholarships are essential for attracting more women and underrepresented minorities into graduate engineering programs at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, according to College of Engineering...
November 16, 2011 10:00 AM
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Study Ranks European Universities on Autonomy
When it comes to European universities, the United Kingdom is the land of the free, according to a new report from the European Universities Association (EUA), launched yesterday. The...
November 15, 2011 11:38 AM
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National University of Singapore Clears Ito of Misconduct Charge
The National University of Singapore (NUS) announced today that it has found no evidence of research misconduct by Yoshiaki Ito, a high-profile cancer researcher accused of data fabrication. However,...
November 14, 2011 1:56 PM
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Dutch Physicist and Science Educator Robbert Dijkgraaf to Head IAS
Dutch theoretical physicist and prolific science popularizer Robbert Dijkgraaf has been tapped as the new director of the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, the...
November 10, 2011 2:33 PM
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UPDATE: Disgraced Dutch Psychologist Returns Doctoral Degree
After a devastating report accusing him of fraud in dozens of papers, Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel has given up his doctor's title. The University of Amsterdam, where Stapel...
Report: Dutch 'Lord of the Data' Forged Dozens of Studies (UPDATE)
One of the Netherlands' leading social psychologists made up or manipulated data in dozens of papers over nearly a decade, an investigating committee has concluded. Diederik Stapel was suspended...
October 31, 2011 2:40 PM
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Court Endorses Vatican Bank's Rescue of Italian Research Center
One of Italy's most prestigious private biomedical research centers may have gained a new lease on life. On Friday, 28 October, an Italian bankruptcy court gave the green light...
October 28, 2011 4:58 PM
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Five University Teams Bid for New Research Campus in New York City
New York City today received bids from at least five university-based teams to build a science and engineering center in the city. In July, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that...
Japan's New Okinawa Institute Officially Becomes Graduate University
A budding new Japanese graduate school backed by the likes of Nobel laureates Sydney Brenner, Susumu Tonegawa, Jerome Friedman, and others has cleared the last hurdle required to start...
New Swedish Fellowship Program Aims to Give Young Researchers a Leg Up
A new funding program in Sweden aims to help young scientists from around the world bridge the gap between their postdoctoral years and their first academic position. The Wallenberg...
East Asia's Universities Need To Play Bigger Economic Role, Says World Bank
TOKYO—Universities in East Asia aren't giving their countries the economic boost they should because of educational and research shortcomings, concludes a report released today by the World Bank. In...
October 11, 2011 4:00 PM
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House Prepares to Move STEM Immigration Reform
Congress could be inching closer to allowing more high-skilled foreign workers to remain in the country. The change in U.S. immigration law would be a huge victory for a...
Survey: European Ph.D. Students Underfunded, Unaware of Rights
Money is the most pressing concern for European doctoral students, according to the first Europewide survey of working conditions for young researchers, which is set to be released today. The...
Jan Hendrik Schön Loses His Ph.D.
BERLIN—A German court has ruled that it is legal to revoke the Ph.D. of disgraced physicist Jan Hendrik Schön. Schön was the center of a spectacular scandal in 2002,...
U.K. Scientists Challenge Creationism in Schools
Thirty prominent U.K. scientists today released a statement raising concern about the teaching of creationism in British publicly-funded schools. They highlight organizations that are visiting schools and sending them...
September 16, 2011 1:11 PM
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AAU's Rawlings on What It'll Take to Improve Undergrad STEM Education
This week the Association of American Universities (AAU) announced a 5-year effort to improve undergraduate science, math, and engineering education. It joins an already crowded field of public and...
Chinese University Fires Administrators, Offers Compensation After Lab Accident
On the heels of a damaging laboratory outbreak that sickened 27 students, leaders at China's Northeast Agricultural University last week dismissed two administrators, apologized for insufficient safety practices, and...
September 8, 2011 3:58 PM
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New U.S. Panel Examines Career Paths After Grad School
Two U.S. higher education organizations have begun collecting data on what graduate students know about their career options and what type of workers high-tech companies are looking for. It's...
Dutch University Sacks Social Psychologist Over Faked Data
AMSTERDAM—A Dutch social psychologist whose eye-catching studies about human behavior were fodder for columnists and policy makers has lost his job after his university concluded that some of the...
U.S. Firms Pledge More Engineering Internships
PORTLAND, OREGON—A group of U.S. companies has promised to create thousands of internships for engineering students as a way to increase the number of U.S. citizens who earn engineering...
August 16, 2011 4:47 PM
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Did Unsafe Machine Contribute to Yale Student's Death?
Science Careers Blog notes the latest twist in the April death of Michele Dufault, a physics and astronomy major at Yale University who was active in undergraduate research projects....
U.K. Slashes Science and Engineering Ph.D.s
The United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) has revealed that it may fund 1000 fewer new Ph.D.s in the upcoming academic year than in 2010-11. The research...
July 22, 2011 11:46 AM
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Texas School Board Sidesteps Intelligent Design Debate
An expected showdown between opponents and supporters of teaching creationism in the classroom has been averted in Texas. For now, at least, science textbooks approved by the Texas State Board...
Lavish Makeover of French Campuses Is Under Way
PARIS—Concern over France's ballooning public deficits seemed momentarily forgotten at a meeting here yesterday where nine clusters of universities and schools presented a series of lavish projects, some already...
July 19, 2011 4:29 PM
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Report Sets Out Framework for Improved Science Teaching
A new National Academies' report on science in U.S. elementary and secondary schools elevates the importance of teaching engineering concepts in the classroom. It also says that teachers should...
July 19, 2011 4:25 PM
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New York Offers Land for University Tech/Science
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this morning that three sites will be opened up for new university science and technology campuses on city land, given free to schools who want...
July 13, 2011 4:50 PM
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Penn Psychiatrist Accuses Five Colleagues of Plagiarism
A University of Pennsylvania researcher has accused five colleagues of scientific misconduct for allegedly allowing a drug company to put their names on a paper that they did not...
Fallout from Strauss-Kahn Affair: France Gets New Research Minister
PARIS—One ripple effect of the arrest in New York of former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sexual assault is that a shuffling of...
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