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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.

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.

David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-authors an article about the length of physician shifts and whether or not that impacts their ability to treat patients.

Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on Americans living to 100 years old and the ways their finances will be supported.

The Center for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery is cited.

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.

The latest results from a landmark survey of college graduates contains two big findings: Female college athletes make great employees; and male college football and basketball players pay a physical price later in life. The insights come courtesy of the Gallup–Purdue Index, a 2014 survey of 30,000 college graduates commissioned by Purdue President Mitch Daniels to discern the value of a college education. The upshot: It is less important where a student attends college than how involved they become with a mentor, a community or a long-term project.

Guns will be allowed in classrooms at the University of Texas at Austin next school year, but not in the dorms save for some narrow exceptions, under guidelines issued Wednesday. University President Greg Fenves submitted the rules reluctantly to comply with the state’s new campus carry law, which has generated intense controversy. The law allows the concealed carrying of weapons by license holders in public university buildings across the state.

Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School says that “people are motivated by losses more than gains and prefer getting rewarded now rather than later.”

Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the importance of donor cultivation.