US ‘un-excellence’ initiative will harm institutions, says scholar
The US’ public higher education system has engaged in an “un-excellence initiative” that will lead to a drop in the quality of its universities ...
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Ohio State gets less from technology licensing than peers
Two of Ohio’s largest research hubs, Ohio State University and the Cleveland Clinic, announced with gusto three years ago that they were joining forces to commercialize their medical-related work.
UK students excluded from UK medicine degree
A medicine degree course at a UK university is not open to students from the UK - only overseas students are allowed to apply.
Black holes heading for ‘massive collision,’ says astronomer
A really, really big bang not due for a hundred millennia may help astronomers test one of the central theories of physics, according to one of the authors of a new paper.
Preventing Ethnic Fraud
Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., and adjunct instructor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University, ...
Apple, Google, Tesla and the race to electric self-driving cars
It's official. After months of secretive pilot projects, Apple on Monday became the latest tech company to declare its ambitions in the notoriously low-tech transportation sector.
China slowdown a ‘serious’ risk for US graduate schools
The decline in Chinese students attending US graduate schools is expected to cause major problems for the country’s postgraduate sector given its huge reliance on this cohort,
Less than half of graduates eligible for Arizona universities
Arizona is producing more high school graduates, but that is not translating into an increase in the number of local students eligible to attend one of the state’s three public universities.
Beware harming your ‘personal brand’ on social media
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that on August 27th, “1 in 7 people on earth used Facebook to connect with their friends and family” -- which means about 1 billion people in a single day.
Pope says society must protect most vulnerable, including unborn
Pope Francis on Sunday called on society to protect its "smallest" and most vulnerable members, including the unborn.
