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Senate Passes COMPETES Bill, Now It's Up To the House
Racing against a looming adjournment, the U.S. Senate today passed a reauthorization bill that endorses the steady growth of research and education programs at three key federal research agencies....
December 16, 2010 5:57 PM
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Harvard Provost Steven Hyman to Step Down
Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman plans to step down in June to return to research and teaching. He will have served in the post for 10 years, which he...
December 7, 2010 5:13 PM
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Minnesota Bioethicists Critique Their University
Eight bioethicists at the University of Minnesota are charging that their own institution has committed an "alarming series of ethical violations" in a clinical trial where a young man...
Shanghai Students World Champs on Science, Math, Reading Test
A group of teenagers from Shanghai, China, have posted the top scores on the latest version of an international test of practical knowledge in reading, mathematics, and science. It's...
Biologist Prevails in Case of 'Fruit Bat Fellatio' Harassment Allegations
Dylan Evans is breathing a sigh of relief. The biologist at University College Cork in Ireland was required by the school to attend 2 years of counseling for reading...
December 1, 2010 5:04 PM
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What U.S. Universities Need to Do to Stay on Top
What are the biggest threats to the preeminence of U.S. research universities? Last week a National Academies' panel and several dozen invited guests circled around that question during a...
November 19, 2010 4:35 PM
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Duke Scientist Under Investigation Resigns
A Duke University oncologist who had been the focus of a misconduct investigation has resigned from the university. Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures...
November 15, 2010 1:57 PM
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China Drives the Boom in Foreign Students at U.S. Schools
China now leads the world in sending students overseas to study in the United States. An annual survey by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute of International Education released today, known...
Fired Tenured Faculty Members Reinstated at Florida State
An arbitrator has found that layoffs of 12 tenured faculty members last year at Florida State University (FSU) were the result of an “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable” process. Faced...
NIH Funds Six Projects to Promote Workforce Diversity
Brad Duerstock is a neuroscientist. He's also a quadriplegic. Last week he received $2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help others with disabilities who want...
October 21, 2010 5:12 PM
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Cuccinelli Demands Called 'Governmental Intrusion' Into Climate Science
The University of Virginia has fired a new salvo in a 5-month-old fight with the state's attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, over an investigation of former UVA professor Michael Mann....
October 18, 2010 2:08 PM
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Obama Hosts Science Fair Winners at White House
President Barack Obama kicked off a national science and engineering festival with a White House event today that honored dozens of students for their achievements in science competitions around...
October 12, 2010 5:27 PM
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NSF Graduate Fellowships Now Recognize STEM Education as Valid Research Field
In 2000, the National Science Foundation began funding graduate students who also wanted to help out elementary and secondary school teachers in the classroom. A novel idea at the...
October 7, 2010 3:40 PM
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Universities Are Trying Too Hard to Cash In on Discoveries, Says Academy Panel
It's been 30 years since Congress revised U.S. patent laws to encourage universities to embrace the world of commerce. Critics predicted that the integrity of academic research would be...
September 30, 2010 12:59 PM
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New Answers for Increasing Minorities in Science
For decades, the conventional wisdom was that increasing the number of minority scientists requires addressing every aspect of the pipeline—from elementary school through hiring and promoting faculty members. That's...
September 28, 2010 1:00 PM
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U.S. Grad School Rankings: It's Complicated
So who's number one? The long-delayed National Academies' assessment of U.S. graduate research programs is finally out today. And it's chock-full of information about 5100 doctoral programs in 62...
September 23, 2010 2:00 PM
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Bad Forecast for U.S. Competitiveness, Says New Gathering Storm Report
The storm threatening to wipe out U.S. leadership in global science and technology is now a Category 5 hurricane. So say the authors of an influential 2005 report called...
September 17, 2010 12:43 PM
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Science Education Report 'Is Not About Spending More Money,' Obama Adviser Says
The co-chair of a new White House report on strengthening science education says its recommendations will not add significantly to federal spending. He strongly disputes yesterday's account in ScienceInsider...
September 16, 2010 12:40 PM
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Indian University Banned From Using Radioactivity
Citing violations of safety regulations, India's atomic regulator has withdrawn the University of Delhi's license to use radioactive material. The move marks the first time an Indian university has...
September 16, 2010 10:30 AM
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White House Advisers Call for Big Changes to Improve Science Education
The United States needs to do a much better job of teaching science and math in elementary and secondary school—and the federal government needs to spend a lot more money...
September 13, 2010 5:20 PM
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White House Rally to Promote Science Education
On Thursday the White House will host the third public event in an ongoing campaign to encourage the private sector to invest in precollege science and math education. The...
September 7, 2010 11:34 AM
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Probation for Biologist Who Admitted to Misconduct
After pleading guilty earlier this summer to making false statements in a grant report, former University of Wisconsin biologist Elizabeth Goodwin was sentenced Friday by a Wisconsin district judge....
September 2, 2010 5:08 PM
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Obama Advisers Call for Greater Emphasis on STEM Education
A new report to President Barack Obama from his science advisers urges the federal government to improve science and math education in U.S. schools by both leading the way...
September 1, 2010 2:05 PM
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Universities Support Obama Move to Loosen Export Controls
For many years, academic institutions and businesses in the United States have complained about the long list of technologies that the U.S. government considers too sensitive to export without...
August 30, 2010 3:59 PM
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Judge Blocks Virginia's Request for Global Warming Records
A county circuit court judge today quashed a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that sought documents related to work by climate scientist Michael Mann, according to...
August 27, 2010 5:03 PM
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Journal Editor Says He Believes Retracted Hauser Paper Contains Fabricated Data
Evidence of bad behavior by Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser continues to mount. Today Gerry Altmann, the editor of the journal Cognition, posted a statement on his blog...
August 26, 2010 2:47 PM
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Head of Iranian Institute Fired as Regime Crackdown Widens
The Iranian Ministry of Science has fired the founder-director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) in Zanjan and replaced him with a nuclear scientist known...
August 25, 2010 2:54 PM
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Hausergate: Scientific Misconduct and What We Know We Don't Know
Confusion still lingers after the recent news that Harvard University has found that noted cognitive scientist Marc Hauser engaged in scientific misconduct. Researchers don’t know whether to consider all...
August 23, 2010 6:10 PM
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Hauser Speaks on Misconduct
In response to a letter from Harvard University reporting that an investigation by the university had found Marc Hauser "solely responsible" for "eight instances of scientific misconduct.", Hauser issued comments...
August 20, 2010 3:11 PM
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Harvard Dean Confirms Misconduct in Hauser Investigation
In an e-mail sent earlier today to Harvard University faculty members, Michael Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), confirms that cognitive scientist Marc Hauser "was...
August 13, 2010 5:27 PM
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California Postdocs Embrace Union Contract
Postdocs at the University of California (UC) voted overwhelmingly this week to adopt a 5-year contract that would raise their pay and give them protections not guaranteed under the...
August 13, 2010 4:27 PM
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Berkeley Gene Testing Program Scaled Back
A novel experiment at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, that involved analyzing the genomes of new students has run into legal trouble. The academics who came up with...
August 2, 2010 3:08 PM
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Postdocs Negotiate Pact With University of California
From Science Careers's blog, an end to a year and a half of wrangling: Perhaps the longest-running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO/UAW, the...
July 29, 2010 11:50 AM
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Scientists Balk at BP Recruitment Efforts, Restrictive Contracts
Last Thursday, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) blasted BP for its "chilling" practice of slapping restrictive confidentiality agreements on the university scientists it has hired to study...
July 19, 2010 4:16 PM
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Prominent Duke Cancer Researcher Put On Leave Over Allegedly Embellishing Credentials
A cancer genomics researcher at Duke University has been put on leave after administrators learned that he falsely claimed to have been a Rhodes scholar. The school took the...
July 14, 2010 2:49 PM
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Judge Throws Out Case Against California Animal-Rights Activists
A federal judge in San Jose has dismissed charges against four animal-rights activists accused of harassing researchers at the University of California campuses at Berkeley and Santa Cruz in...
July 12, 2010 2:48 PM
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Comments Sought on How to Teach Science in U.S. Schools
A panel of the U.S. National Academies today released its initial description of what U.S. elementary and high school students should learn in science. The goal of the conceptual...
Former SLAC Director to Lead New Japanese Graduate University
When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division...
Ireland Cuts Back on Ph.D. and Postdoc Support
Ireland is to shed nearly 1000 Ph.D. and postdoctoral posts in 2010 and 2011 as a result of severe government budget cuts. This runs counter to the government's stated...
Controversial KAIST President Wins a Second Term
Nam Pyo Suh has been elected to a second term as president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) after overcoming some unexpected opposition. Suh, a...
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