All Academia articles – Page 71
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News€224 million EU antibiotics initiative launched
The project will bring together the pharmaceutical industry and academia, but some institutes have reservations
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News
Research priorities
The heads of the national science academies of 15 countries have urged governments to focus on three ‘global dilemmas’
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News
Space dino retraction
A recent perspective article by Ron Breslow of Columbia University in the US has now been retracted
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News
Irish government plans to pick winners in research
Science funding will be targeted to areas that will deliver the biggest return on investment
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Russia mulls plan for overseas study scheme
Students that receive funding to study abroad will have to return and work in Russia
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Opinion
Integrity begins at home
James Parry argues that safeguarding the integrity and quality of research is best achieved through cultural and not regulatory means
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Careers
Educating scholars
With many universities now opting to employ dedicated teaching staff, Sarah Houlton meets two of them for a lesson in undergraduate chemistry
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News
Controversial physical sciences shaping strategy comes to a close
For better or worse, the main UK physical sciences funding body has finished deciding which areas of science will see their funding grow and which will shrink
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Quake-hit Japanese universities move on
Among the universities damaged by the earthquake, by far the hardest hit was Tohoku University
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Business
Irish government plans to pick winners in research
Science funding will be targeted to areas that will deliver the biggest return on investment
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News
Double whammy blow to US nuclear science
Los Alamos National Lab’s budget will be cut by 11% and an actinide chemistry facility postponed
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Opinion
The tyranny of peer review
A less conservative approach would foster high-risk, high-return research, argues Sir John O'Reilly
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Opinion
How many chemistry departments do we need?
The number and nature of departments delivering undergraduate chemistry degrees is changing. Paul O'Brien analyses how many are needed