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Analysis - Puerto Rico May Have Better Chance of Supreme Court Win After Scalia Death
David Skeel of the Law School is quoted.
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U.S. Medical Schools Are Faulted for Failing to Report Results of Human Trials
Only about 29 percent of completed medical trials conducted at major American academic centers lead to published or reported results within two years, according to one of the most detailed analyses of the problem. The findings, published on Wednesday in BMJ, suggest that universities and their funders still are falling well short on a major yardstick of open science and of responsibility to participating patients. "The academic institutions are doing very little about this — nothing, in fact," said a lead author, Harlan M. Krumholz, a professor of medicine at Yale University.
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How the Sides Line Up in the Apple Encryption Fight
Matt Blaze of the School of Engineering and Applied Science shares his skepticism of commentators who suggest that it is easy to develop a new operating system that the FBI requires.
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A Lesson in Donor Cultivation: Morgan State University
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the importance of donor cultivation.
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CUNY Schools to Lure Foreign Entrepreneurs With New Visa Program
The next Elon Musk may soon be working at a City University of New York campus in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, perhaps joined by the next Sergey Brin in Flushing, Queens. And they could be creating hundreds of jobs. At least that is the hope of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, which with CUNY will announce on Thursday a new visa program intended for immigrant entrepreneurs.
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No More 8 A.M. Classes
For many, 8 a.m. classes are a slog. At Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., they can be a slog in 10-degree weather. For now. Next fall, students there will wake to find 8 a.m. classes replaced by a free “common hour” intended to increase participation in recently instituted shared governance initiatives at the university.
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Trial Shows Treating ‘Low-T’ in Older Men Helps Sexual Function
Peter Synder of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on testosterone therapy.
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So Who’s Going to Pay For You to Live to Be 100?
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on Americans living to 100 years old and the ways their finances will be supported.
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Doctors Explore Benefits of ‘Bloodless’ Surgery
The Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery is cited.
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Under Fire From Lawmakers, a Flagship Tries to Explain Why Diversity Matters
When J.T. Taylor came to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville as a freshman, she immediately found a home at the Pride Center, which serves students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer. Ms. Taylor, a senior who is African-American and identifies as queer, says she has also benefited immensely from a mentoring program and other efforts sponsored by the university’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion. But now, as Tennessee lawmakers cast doubt on whether public colleges should direct any state money toward diversity, Ms.