Engineer and materials scientist Subra Suresh will become president of Carnegie Mellon University.
Engineer and materials scientist Subra Suresh will become president of Carnegie Mellon University.
A new study disputes findings of a 2011 analysis suggesting that black researchers are funded less than their equally qualified white peers.
Charges of corruption and cronyism involving research funding have toppled the Balkan nation’s top science official.
A conservative republican, and supporter of research, will be the chair of the House appropriations committee that controls the budgets for the National Institutes of Health.
Last minute legislation passed by Congress to avert immediate across-the-board budget cuts will not prevent major reductions in research spending.
Advocacy groups are petitioning Congress to avoid sequestration, which could leave funding for science billions of dollars short in 2013.
The closure of an independent biomedical research institute near Boston has drawn attention to the similar predicament of other private labs that rely on federal grants.
A government-created committee suggests that Australia reinvigorate its biomedical research enterprise.
The US Department of Agriculture announces a partnership of 10 study sites to help promote long-term research.
Reduced support from the US National Library of Medicine threatens to shut down five popular biological databases.