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Past BPTW Performance of the 2006 Top 15 US Academia Institutions
Past BPTW Performance of the 2006 Top 15 US Academia Institutions
Past BPTW Performance of the 2006 Top 15 US Academia Institutions // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/pasttop15us.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Past Rank", "US and Canada","Postdocs 03", "Academia 03", "Postdocs 04", "Academia 04", "Postdocs 05","Acad
Top UK Academic Institutions
Top UK Academic Institutions
Top UK Academic Institutions // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/uk.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Rank in 2006", "Name"]; // create ActiveWidgets Grid javascript object var obj = new AW.UI.Grid; // provide column labels obj.setHeaderText
Best Places to Work in Academia 2006 Survey Methodology
Best Places to Work in Academia 2006 Survey Methodology
FEATURE BPTW Academia Survey 2006 Methodology ARTICLE EXTRAS Related Articles: Best Places to Work Survey Index Best Places to Work in Academia 2006 Ranking Tables: Top 50 US Academic Institutions Top 15 US Academic Institutions Factors Most and Least Important to US Academic Scientists Top 10 UK Academic Institutions and Factors Most Important to UK Academia Scientists Top 5 Canadian Academic Instit
Sizing Up Bush on Science
Sizing Up Bush on Science
Is the 43rd President of the United States really science's worst-ever enemy? By Alison McCook ARTICLE EXTRAS Related Articles: Enemies of the State Bush's isn't the only administration to use science selectively. Here's a sampling of previous incidents. Science and the President Is Bush science's nemesis? Or are we being unreasonably rough on his record? Let's get Political: President Bush has done his fair share of interfering
Enemies of the State
Enemies of the State
COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION Bush's isn't the only administration to use science selectively. Here's a sampling of previous incidents: Truman Subjected almost 60,000 federal scientists and those with access to classified information to security reviews, costing some clearances and work. Nixon Dissolved the office of the presidential science advisor. Asked candidate to head Nat
Let's Get Political
Let's Get Political
Related Article Let's get political President Bush has done his fair share of interfering in science and the scientific process. How can you fight back? By Alison McCook ARTICLE EXTRAS Related Articles: Enemies of the State Science and the President Find out what your candidates think of research Poll: Voice your opinion on the Bush administration Featured Article: Sizing Up Bush on Science
A Master Regulator in the Brain
A Master Regulator in the Brain
How a single protein was found to link schizophrenia and depression to drugs of abuse and addiction. By Per Svenningsson and Paul Greengard WEB EXTRAS DARPP-32 at the center of it all: View animation More neuroscience coverage: Meeting of the Minds 36 recommendations Europeans came up with when they gathered to talk about brain science. Singing in the Bird Brain The songbirds studied by Fernando Nottebohm aren't the only ones
Trial of the Heart
Trial of the Heart
Doug Bergman drove 240 miles to have his heart stabbed by a needle from the inside out. Now he hopes the stem cells that may be in that needle will change his life. By Ivan Oransky WEB EXTRA View Slideshow of Bergman's day Related Article: Making a Play at Regrowing Hearts Results from the first round of controlled human stem cell trials for heart disease are in. What have we learned? Web Extras: Clinical Trials Database A sortabl
Best Places to Work 2006: Academia
Best Places to Work 2006: Academia
Best Places to Work 2006: Academia © JENNIFER TRENCHARD © THOMAS ROPKE/CORBIS Our annual survey picks the 40 best academic institutions. See where yours - or the one you're considering moving to - fared. Assistant publisher MARIA W. ANDERSON highlights trends and zeroes in on what made top schools great. By Maria W. Anderson, with reporting by Juhi Yajnik Related Articles: Best Places to Work Survey Index Best Places to Work in Academia 2006
Top 50 US Academic Institutions
Top 50 US Academic Institutions
Top 50 Institutions in the U.S. // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/institutions.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Rank in 2006", "Rank in 2005","Name/Location", "State", "Type", "Strengths", "Strengths","Weaknesses","Weaknesses"]; // create ActiveWid
Top 15 US Academic Institutions
Top 15 US Academic Institutions
Top 15 US Academic Institutions // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/top15us.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Rank in 2006", "Rank in 2005","Institution", "Type", "No. of Full-Time Life Science Researchers", "Federal Funding (in millions of dollars)", "
Most Important and Least Important Factors for US Academic Scientists
Most Important and Least Important Factors for US Academic Scientists
Most Important Factors for US Academic Scientists // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/topfactors.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Rank in the US in 2006", "Rank in the US in 2005","Category", "Factor"]; // create ActiveWidgets Grid javascript object
Top Canadian Academic Institutions
Top Canadian Academic Institutions
Top Canadian Academic Institutions // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/can.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Rank in 2006", "Name"]; // create ActiveWidgets Grid javascript object var obj = new AW.UI.Grid; // provide column labels obj.setHeade
Top Canadian Academic Institutions and Most Important Factors for Canadian Academic Scientists
Top Canadian Academic Institutions and Most Important Factors for Canadian Academic Scientists
Top Canadian Academic Institutions // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/can.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Rank in 2006", "Name"]; // create ActiveWidgets Grid javascript object var obj = new AW.UI.Grid; // provide column labels obj.setHeade
Top UK Academic Institutions and Most Important Factors for UK Academic Scientists
Top UK Academic Institutions and Most Important Factors for UK Academic Scientists
Top UK Academic Institutions // create ActiveWidgets data model - CSV text table var table = new AW.CSV.Table; // provide data URL - plain text comma-separated file table.setURL("/supplementary/csv/24822/uk.csv"); // start asyncronous data retrieval table.request(); // define column labels var columns = [ "Rank in 2006", "Name"]; // create ActiveWidgets Grid javascript object var obj = new AW.UI.Grid; // provide column labels obj.setHeaderText(c
Contributors
Contributors
Contributors
Paul Greengard of Rockefeller University shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his work on signal transduction in the brain. He and Per Svenningsson, of the Rockefeller and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, write on page 40 about the discovery of DARPP-32 and its subsequent characterization as a master regulator in the brain, integrating signals involved in drugs of abuse as well as schizophrenia and depression. "One of the major challenges was to prove
Editorial
Science and the President
Science and the President
Is Bush science's nemesis? Or are we being unreasonably rough on his record?
Letters
Letters
"The only immortal aspect of living material is the message found in information-containing molecules, and even that is subject to mutation and change." The never-ending story of HeLa Re: "HeLa Herself"1 and "The First Immortal Cell Line."2 HeLa was not the first immortal cell line. That honor goes to Strain L, which was isolated by Wilton Earle from mouse mesenchyme eleven years earlier.3 HeLa's distinction is that it was the first immortal human cell line. HeLa
The Agenda
The Agenda
The Agenda
ASHG IN NEW ORLEANS » Just over a year after Hurricane Katrina began forcing many conferences scheduled for New Orleans to relocate, the American Society of Human Genetics expects the Society?s annual meeting there, from October 9-13, to draw numbers comparable to previous years. Health officials will speak on identifying Katrina victims, and members can participate in outreach efforts to repair science education in New Orleans schools. For more, see http://www.ashg.org/.
Notebook
Biting back at animal activists
Biting back at animal activists
What's on tap at this month's American Association for Laboratory Animal Science meeting
The goat sex researcher
The goat sex researcher
There's nothing romantic about Larry Katz's "lab." And yet...
