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Jul/Aug 2009
Stephanie Bianchi |
Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers A workshop was offered to all new program officers at NSF on how to use standard library resources to quickly and easily find and evaluate possible peer reviewers, even if the subject area was unfamiliar.   |
Chemistry World
July 2009 |
UK science funding Adam Afriyie, UK shadow science minister, would like to see more investment in training the next generation of scientists and is pioneering a science literacy scheme for MPs |
Popular Mechanics
June 30, 2009 |
8 Science Kit Reviews and 8 DIY Experiments You Can Do for Free Great ideas for studying science at home for little or no money. |
Chemistry World
June 26, 2009
James Mitchell Crow |
STFC cuts funds to key facilities Key UK national science facilities, including the Diamond Light Source and the ISIS neutron beam laboratory, have had their funding cut.C |
Science News
July 4, 2009 |
Intel ISEF Discussion Panel Nobelists to students: Being wrong may be just right |
Scientific American
July 2009
Eugenie Samuel Reich |
Stimulus Funds for Science Raise Concern about Misconduct About $31 billion in stimulus funds will go to science. Can watchdogs keep track of those funds? |
Skeptical Inquirer
Kendrick Frazier |
Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration A president's intellectual outlook is only one of many things that shape changes in culture and society, but the early signs are encouraging. |
Chemistry World
June 12, 2009
Anna Lewcock |
Focus on economic impact the way forward, says RCUK The chief executives of the UK's seven research councils have stepped forward to defend moves to reprioritize the nation's research on projects that offer economic benefits. |
Popular Mechanics
June 12, 2009
Jerry Beilinson |
Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival. |
Popular Mechanics
June 11, 2009
Allie Haake |
Inside Amateur Science: The Best in Out-of-Lab Research We asked the entrepreneur and science writer, Shawn Carlson to name some of the top amateur scientists and programs in the country. |
Chemistry World
June 9, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
New department takes responsibility for UK science The UK government reshuffle has reunited the departments responsible for business and science. |
Chemistry World
June 8, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Science wins German funding boost Researchers and university officials in Germany are celebrating after federal and state politicians approved hefty spending increases for three major science and education programs. |
Chemistry World
June 2009
Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Feeling the crunch The latest sector to feel the recession is the world of publishing and journalism. The print media industry has seen a number of high-profile casualties - and science journalism in particular has finally started to succumb to the difficult financial landscape. |
Chemistry World
June 2009
Lord Drayson |
World-leading research In the current climate - not just the downturn, but the reality of intense global competition - UK research chemists must join forces with business and government to exploit our abundant talent and potential. |
Chemistry World
June 2009
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible Scientific fraud highlights flaws in the way that scientists communicate with each other. Eugenie Samuel Reich's book Plastic fantastic, highlights a key element in what transpires. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Skills in industry: change needed from within Employers in the chemical industry must act now to ensure the next generation of scientists has the necessary skills, according to industry leaders. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Robert Tjian |
Fully Engaged As I complete my first month as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, action potential provides a metaphor for what may be my most important leadership responsibility. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009 |
Three's a Crowd, Ten's a Posse The Posse Foundation has been establishing college student groups for two decades -- but this year's posse at Brandeis is the first to focus on science. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009 |
Fifty Stories The aim of HHMI's ECS program is to advance the career trajectory of 50 talented researchers, and with them the prospects for research bioscience, far into the 21st century. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Steve Olson |
Outside the Box In his new book, The Art and Politics of Science, Harold Varmus describes his unusual route to science, his Nobel Prize-winning research, and his global goals for science policy. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
David J. Tenenbaum |
Who's Who? When asked about their careers, many scientists talk about mentors, but few bring up mistaken identity. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Corinna Wu |
Bay Area Sound One of San Francisco's hardest working local music promoters spends his days doing x-ray crystallography. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Gilliam Fellows Program Expands Now in its fifth year, the Gilliam fellows program aims to diversify science research and academia. Each fellow receives $44,000 in support annually for up to five years. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Research Institute Launched in South Africa With simultaneous events in the United States and South Africa, HHMI and the University of KwaZulu-Natal announced the creation of an international research center focused on the worldwide effort to control the devastating co-epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2009
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Rose Elected to HHMI Board of Trustees Clayton S. Rose, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and 20-year veteran of J.P. Morgan & Co., has been elected a Trustee of HHMI. |
Skeptical Inquirer
Mar/Apr 2009
Elizabeth Sherman |
Science and Antiscience in America - Why It Matters A misunderstanding of science is pervasive in many institutions that shape how we see and act in the world. There are too many such institutions to mention in this essay, so I'll just highlight a few. |
Skeptical Inquirer
Mar/Apr 2009
Glenn Branch |
A Christian Physicist's Dispatch from the Evolution Wars Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution. By Karl W. Giberson. |
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