UK’s Research Councils may fund fewer new doctoral students in the upcoming academic year.
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Statistician Paul Meier, who championed the random assignment of patients to treatment groups in clinical trials, changed the way the researchers test experimental drugs.
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A conversation with Dan Otte, a South African artist and curator of entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Otte also happens to have discovered around 20 percent of the cricket species known to date.
More than 100 researchers have left a neuroscience institute in Brazil in the last couple of weeks, protesting managerial problems they say are thwarting their work.
The United Kingdom is revamping its intellectual property laws for published research.
A new educational framework swaps breadth of scientific disciplines for depth and emphasizes the process of science.
Book Excerpt from Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters
| August 1, 2011
In Chapter 6, "Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University," author Benjamin Ginsberg describes the perils of pursuing scholarship and teaching in the industrial environment of today's American institutions of higher learning.
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New research suggests that the flow of carbon through plants to underground ecosystems may be crucial to how the environment responds to climate change.
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