NIH Budget Boosters Get a Push From the Right Chronicle of Higher Education NIH Budget Boosters Get a Push From the Right About 100 university scientists and their advocates gathered here on Tuesday as part of an annual ritual to convince lawmakers of the value of federal spending on medical research. And this year, with the sales job perhaps as tough as any, they got some extra inside help.
Medicare Overpays as Hospital Prices Rise The Wall Street Journal Medicare Overpays as Hospital Prices Rise Mark Pauly of the Wharton School comments on Medicare and hospital costs.
Clinton Criticizes For-Profits, Talks College Costs Inside Higher Ed Clinton Criticizes For-Profits, Talks College Costs Hillary Clinton, on her first trip to Iowa after declaring her presidential candidacy, criticized for-profit colleges and talked about college costs in a discussion at Kirkwood Community College.
Student Coalition at Stanford Confronts Allegations of Anti-Semitism The New York Times Student Coalition at Stanford Confronts Allegations of Anti-Semitism The debate over what constitutes anti-Semitism has spilled into Stanford University’s student government election, with a Jewish student claiming that she was asked how her Judaism affects her view of divestment from Israel, morphing what was a contest about campus issues into a fierce discussion on identity and loyalties.
Helping Minority Ph.D.’s in STEM: Something’s Working Chronicle of Higher Education Helping Minority Ph.D.’s in STEM: Something’s Working Earning a Ph.D. in a STEM field is meant to be challenging, but data has shown it can be especially so for minority students.
Political Correctness at Princeton: When It Comes to Free Speech, They're No Tigers NJ.com Political Correctness at Princeton: When It Comes to Free Speech, They're No Tigers Alan Kors of the School of Arts and Sciences is quoted on free speech vs. hate speech.
A Digital Reboot of Humanities at U of Penn Newsworks (WHYY-FM) A Digital Reboot of Humanities at U of Penn Jeffrey Kallberg of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about Penn’s newly announced Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
Yale Medical School’s Request to Expand Campus Program Online is Denied The New York Times Yale Medical School’s Request to Expand Campus Program Online is Denied The Yale University School of Medicine and 2U, an education technology company, have been denied accreditors’ permission to offer a physician assistant master’s degree online as an expansion of an existing campus degree program. Yale’s announcement of the program in March was heralded as evidence that even the nation’s most prestigious universities were moving toward online degrees.
Has Conversion Therapy Finally Met Its Demise? Philadelphia Inquirer Has Conversion Therapy Finally Met Its Demise? Andrea Segal of the Perelman School of Medicine is the author of this article on the practice of “curing” homosexuality.
An Apple a Day Keeps Scientists Close at Hand Business Day An Apple a Day Keeps Scientists Close at Hand Kathryn Schmitz of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on the use of apps to recruit test subjects.