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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...
Investigation of Japanese Papers Entangles University President
TOKYO—The list of scientists who must regret co-authoring papers with University of the Ryukyus virologist Naoki Mori now includes the president of the university. Mori and colleagues have already...
June 29, 2011 12:17 PM
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California Universities Brace for More Cuts
Facing a persistent budget gap, the California legislature yesterday passed an austere budget that will bring yet more financial pain to the already cash-strapped state university system. The University...
June 23, 2011 1:20 PM
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Report Says Instruction, Not Schools, Is Key to Successful Science Programs
What do specialized U.S. math and science schools do differently that allows them to churn out graduates who ace national and international tests on those subjects? And can those...
June 6, 2011 5:54 PM
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Will Universities Suffer From Stanford's Patent Defeat?
The U.S. Supreme Court today ended a long patent battle over rights to a widely used HIV test, awarding a victory to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (which developed and...
May 13, 2011 12:37 PM
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U.S. Broadens Job Prospects for Foreign Grads in Science Fields
Foreign students studying at U.S. universities have traditionally had a year after graduation in which to find a job, allowing them to live and work in the United States. Three...
May 12, 2011 5:03 PM
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Is There a Special Formula for Successful STEM Schools?
With all the attention to poor U.S. student achievement in math and science, the questions that Congress put to the National Science Foundation (NSF) 18 months ago tackles the problem...
Ten-Year Plan Aims to Make Slovenia a Regional Science Leader
Slovenia's parliament is expected to approve a 10-year strategy next week to give the country's research and innovation sectors a major facelift. The plan aims to boost government funding for...
Geographers Had Predicted Osama's Possible Whereabouts
Could Osama bin Laden have been found faster if the CIA had followed the advice of ecosystem geographers from the University of California, Los Angeles? Probably not, but the...
April 29, 2011 4:22 PM
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Women's Share of NIH Grants Drops With Age
A new analysis from the National Institutes of Health puts in stark relief the widening imbalance between men and women researchers as their careers progress. NIH grants’ staff members...
April 28, 2011 1:25 PM
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New U.K. Plant Science Lab Receives the Royal Treatment
Most people think the major royal event of the week in England is a small wedding tomorrow, but plant biologists might disagree. Yesterday, the Queen, resplendent in a blue...
April 26, 2011 1:38 PM
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The $23 Million Textbook
The Making of a Fly, by Peter Lawrence of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, is a classic in the field of developmental biology. But is a...
Tsinghua Celebrates Centennial in Style
BEIJING—Tsinghua University marked its 100th anniversary in a grand ceremony here on 24 April in the Great Hall of the People. Founded in 1911 with war reparations imposed on...
April 21, 2011 7:24 PM
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Harvard Researcher Banned From Teaching Next Year
The Boston Globe reports today that Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser, who is on leave after a university investigation found evidence of research misconduct in his lab, will not...
April 21, 2011 5:01 PM
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Tennessee 'Critical Thinking' Education Bill Dead in the Water—For Now
A bill in the Tennessee Legislature encouraging science teachers to explore controversial topics, which opponents claim opens the door to anti-evolution rhetoric, was put on hold today. The bill...
April 13, 2011 12:58 PM
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Yale Undergraduate Dies in Machine Shop Accident
Yale University is mourning the loss of an undergraduate who died after an accident Tuesday night in a chemistry machine shop. According to a statement today from school officials,...
Bill Allowing Teachers to Challenge Evolution Passes Tennessee House
In a 70-28 vote today, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed HB 368, a bill that encourages science teachers to explore controversial topics without fear of reprisal. Critics say...
April 7, 2011 4:26 PM
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Fish Stymie Scientists, Facebook to the Rescue
If you're stuck in the jungle and you need research help fast, learned Oregon State University researchers, social networking may help, says the university: A team of scientists in...
March 25, 2011 5:36 PM
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Johannesburg University Ends Research With Israeli School
A South African university is ending a research collaboration with an Israeli university, a step hailed as a "boycott" by proponents of an international academic campaign to shun Israeli...
March 23, 2011 1:43 PM
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Congress and Science Education: Wolf Berates NSF on Overdue Report
A long-overdue report on U.S. science education has put the National Science Foundation (NSF) in hot water with an influential legislator. The issue boiled over earlier this month at a...
March 21, 2011 3:18 PM
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MIT Report Cites Progress for Women Faculty
Men still far outnumber women on the science and engineering faculties at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But a new MIT report says women have made so much progress...
March 17, 2011 2:33 PM
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Guilty Plea in Murder of Yale Grad Student
Former Yale University laboratory worker Raymond Clark pleaded guilty today to murdering 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le in 2009, Bloomberg reports: Clark entered his plea today before Connecticut Superior...
February 28, 2011 1:33 PM
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White House Launches New Tally of STEM Education Programs
An inventory by the Bush Administration of federal efforts to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education was too simplistic to be useful, according to a White House...
February 25, 2011 12:28 PM
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UC San Diego Protest Over Foreign Postdoc's Dismissal
On Wednesday, campus police at the University of California, San Diego, broke up a protest outside the office of university Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. Police threatened to arrest a...
February 15, 2011 1:14 PM
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Grad Student to Serve Six Months for Freeing Ferrets
Scott DeMuth, a sociology graduate student at the University of Minnesota, was sentenced yesterday to 6 months in federal prison for his role in a 2006 raid on a...
February 14, 2011 2:51 PM
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Yale Agrees to Return Machu Picchu Artifacts to Peru
Ending a bitter dispute over the repatriation of archeological artifacts, Yale University will return to Peru thousands of items excavated from Machu Picchu by 20th Century explorer Hiram Bingham,...
Chinese Technology Prize Revoked Over Fraud
For the first time, the Chinese government has revoked a major technology award because the prize-winning work turned out to be fraudulent. Bloggers on a popular science site, ScienceNet.cn,...
February 9, 2011 10:32 AM
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New Stem Cell Lab Designed to Inspire
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—A stem cell research building opened today at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is generating oohs and ahhs from scientists and architecture buffs alike. The...
February 8, 2011 5:22 PM
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No Review Needed of 2004 Suicide, University of Minnesota Says
Despite calls from a group of faculty members for a full investigation, the University of Minnesota has declined to reexamine the death of a young man who committed suicide...
February 4, 2011 5:05 PM
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Obama Proposes Education Technology Agency Modeled After DARPA
The Obama Administration has proposed a new agency within the Department of Education that will fund the development of new education technologies and promote their use in the classroom....
January 28, 2011 1:27 PM
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More Trouble for Duke as FDA Audits Center, The Cancer Letter Reports
The fallout continues from a decision to halt controversial cancer trials at Duke University last year: In an article today, The Cancer Letter is reporting that the U.S. Food...
January 27, 2011 5:31 PM
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Intel Commits $100 Million for University Research
The computer chip giant Intel will invest $100 million in U.S. universities to support cutting-edge research in computing and communications, the company announced yesterday. The project will create a...
Train 100,000 Science and Math Teachers? Obama Plan Leaves Unanswered Questions
In Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama promised that the federal government would help universities train 100,000 new elementary and secondary school science and math teachers...
January 25, 2011 1:59 PM
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Is 'No Child Left Behind' to Blame for Poor Science Test Scores?
U.S. students don't know much about science, according to the latest results from a national test released today. And one leading science educator says that a big reason for...
Japanese Virologist Loses Job, Gets Publishing Ban for Image Manipulation
TOKYO—A virologist who has retracted several papers in recent weeks because of problems with images has been dismissed from his position at the University of the Ryukyus in Nishihara,...
January 18, 2011 5:34 PM
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University Settles Suit With Astronomer
The University of Kentucky has paid astronomer Martin Gaskell $125,000 to settle his discrimination suit, as reported in our sister blog Science Careers. The university doesn't admit to any...
January 12, 2011 4:25 PM
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Students' Deaths in Colombia Cast a Pall Over Research
The murder of two students in Colombia last week near a manatee study site—possibly by paramilitary gangsters—sent a chill through the local research community, highlighting dangers to field workers...
January 12, 2011 2:44 PM
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Watchdog: Universities Must Confront Their Conflicts of Interest
Although much ado has been made recently about whether universities are doing enough to police their medical researchers' financial conflicts of interest (COI), less has been said about conflicts...
January 7, 2011 5:29 PM
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Who Wins If Fewer Foreign Grad Students Come to U.S.?
What will happen to U.S. universities if the flood of foreign graduate students becomes a trickle? And if they stopped coming, would it mean that other nations can now...
How New COMPETES Science Law Broadens NSF Education Programs
Only one of the seven directorates at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has "education" in its title. But the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, which President Barack Obama...
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