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Harvard Dishonesty Researcher Now on Administrative Leave
Harvard University has placed a business administration professor who studies dishonesty on administrative leave, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports...
MIT Exonerates Professor—After 3.5-Year Wait
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received research misconduct allegations against Ram Sasisekharan in 2019. It didn’t clear his name until this spring.
Striking U of Washington Postdocs, Scientists Reach Tentative Deal
University of Washington postdoctoral researchers and research scientists and engineers announced Thursday that they have paused their strike after reaching...
Mayo Threatens Firing Professor for Interviews—and Idioms
A longtime faculty member at the medical school is being threatened with termination after interviews he gave to CNN and The New York Times.
U of Washington Research Postdocs, Scientists Begin Strike
University of Washington postdoctoral researchers and research scientists/engineers began striking Wednesday over pay and other issues. Becca Bluett, a member...
Colleges Race to Hire and Build Amid AI ‘Gold Rush’
Cue the bulldozers to make room for hordes of new AI faculty. But computer scientists willing to teach are in short supply, and innovation’s trajectory is rarely predictable.
Astronomy Preprint Withdrawn Over a Co-Author’s Inclusion
An astronomy preprint’s lead author withdrew the paper and is removing one of the co-authors: Geoff Marcy, who resigned his...
Faculty Diverges on Researcher’s Alleged Misconduct
A University of Delaware associate professor of marine science says a faculty panel ruled in her favor after another committee found her guilty of research misconduct. She says the president is still planning to fire her.