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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
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
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Astronomy Preprint Withdrawn Over a Co-Author’s Inclusion
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.
Research Finds No Gender Bias in Academic Science
Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.