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Frustrations of Early Career Scientists
Current research funding trends discourage innovative thinking, according to a new essay in a special issue of Nature. The essay...
'Cognitive Scaffolding' for Graduate Students
Faculty members play a critical role in how ethnic and racial minorities and women interpret the rigors of graduate school...
Anger Over Blackface Photo at U Central Arkansas
A photo (at right) of a student at the University of Central Arkansas, posing in blackface and what commenters are...
Wikileaks, Bill Clinton and For-Profits
A former adviser to Bill Clinton co-founded a corporate consulting firm that did communications work for Education Management Corporation, a...
Academic Minute: Vampires and Tuberculosis
Today on the Academic Minute, Charles Sohaskey, a postdoctoral research faculty member at Chapman University, explores if TB could play...
Masks and Fake Lynching at Football Game
Two fans in the football stands at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on Saturday wore costumes and a noose...
New Details on Sex Assaults at Baylor
Trustees of Baylor University are releasing new details about what an outside investigation found about sex assaults that were ignored...
33% Raise for President, 6% for Professors
Faculty members at the College of the Sequoias, a community college in California, are raising questions about a 33 percent...