All Academia articles – Page 57
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NewsUniversity research landscape faces big shake-up
UK government’s higher education white paper details increased competition, streamlining of funding bodies and teaching assessment
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NewsNew €85 million catalysis centre opens in Munich
German hub will bring together 75 interdisciplinary teams to crack toughest catalysis problems
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NewsCall to address gender issues in UK higher education
More women are taking degrees than men, but women remain poorly represented in STEM subjects and senior academic positions
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NewsInsider trading scandal topples head of Taiwan’s top research body
President of umbrella organisation overseeing 24 research institutions caught up in investigation into offloading of biotech shares prior to poor results
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PodcastScientific Paper Writing by Bodil Holst – Book club
This month, we discuss how to write quality scientific papers
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NewsAudit reveals ‘Europe’s MIT’ mired in problems
European Institute of Innovation and Technology troubled since its inception seven years ago
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NewsAustralia opens £80 million nanoscience hub
University of Sydney has unveiled the country’s first purpose-built nanoscience institute
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NewsBrazil joins race to commercialise graphene
A new graphene and nanomaterials research centre, known as MackGraphe, has officially opened in São Paulo
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NewsImage manipulation in biomedical papers is commonplace
Almost 4% of pictures in papers surveyed over past 20 years contain evidence of tampering
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NewsSpain's largest research institution benefits from economic recovery
The CSIC doubles the number of permanent scientist posts that it will create this year
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UK graduates carry more student debt than US counterparts
English students’ debts may be set to increase further, charity states
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NewsSteady rise in US science and engineering doctorates raises job worries
Most research doctorates ever awarded in 2014, with chemistry PhDs jumping 35% in last decade
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NewsHawaii lab explosion linked to safety failings
Accident that cost a postdoc her arm resulted from inappropriate equipment and unheeded warnings
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California lab safety centre to investigate Hawaii University accident
Probe into recent lab explosion that took postdoc’s arm to report at the end of April
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NewsAnger as climate scientists cut at Australian research body
Apparent move away from science for the public good behind the redundancies
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NewsChemistry department to reopen at Swansea University
Swansea University will re-introduce degrees in chemistry in 2017, after a 12-year hiatus
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NewsCDC lab safety weaknesses in spotlight again
Worker at the US Centers for Disease Control diagnosed with Salmonella may have been infected in the lab
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News$1 billion x-ray laser upgrade begins at SLAC
Construction begins on world’s brightest x-ray laser
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Opinion
Speaking truth to power
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