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Trump Considers Gelernter for Science Adviser
David Gelernter (right), an outspoken Yale University professor, is under consideration as a science adviser to the Trump administration, The...
Francis Collins Will Stay at NIH, at Least for Now
Francis Collins (right), director of the National Institutes of Health throughout the Obama administration, has been asked to stay on...
Oral History No Longer Subject to IRB Approval
Life will soon be a little easier for oral historians and a number of other kinds of scholars who have...
Last Day to Apply for Lego Professor of Play
Who says play is just for kids? Not the University of Cambridge, which through today is accepting applications for a...
Paper Questions Effectiveness of Free Tuition
A new Brookings Institution paper by Judith Scott-Clayton questions whether free tuition is the most effective use of additional funds...
Academic Minute: Laughing Gas
Today on the Academic Minute: Nicholas Leadbeater, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Connecticut, asks if laughing gas...
Macmillan Learning Acquires Intellus Learning
Macmillan Learning this week announced the acquisition of Intellus Learning. Macmillan is the publisher of a range of education materials...
Randomness
How do you have a breakthrough in randomness? In today's Academic Minute, the University of Texas at Austin's David Zuckerman...