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  • At U-Va., A Price Hike For Some Will Fund a Price Cut for Others
    The Washington Post

    At U-Va., A Price Hike For Some Will Fund a Price Cut for Others

    For Virginians in financial need, leaders of the state’s flagship university just approved what amounts to a cut of up to $10,000 in the price of a bachelor’s degree. To engineer this feat, the University of Virginia will raise annual tuition an extra $1,000 for in-state students beginning at Charlottesville this year. For the incoming class the following year, in fall 2016, this extra charge — beyond regular tuition growth — will grow to $2,000.

    Mar 26, 2015

    Swarthmore Group Breaks From Hillel
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Swarthmore Group Breaks From Hillel

    In a dispute over its right to host an Israeli-Palestinian program, Swarthmore College's Hillel has broken with the global Jewish-student organization and changed its name. The schism is symptomatic of increasing tensions between local chapters and Hillel, which has attempted to stop them from hosting events that involve speakers or groups deemed to be anti-Israel.

    Mar 26, 2015

    NASA, Penn Study How Space Affects Astronaut’s Brain
    Newsworks (WHYY-FM)

    NASA, Penn Study How Space Affects Astronaut’s Brain

    Mathias Basner of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about a study that developed a test to measure the effects of spaceflight on cognition.


    Mar 26, 2015

    UNC Students Demand New Name for Building Honoring a KKK Leader
    The Washington Post

    UNC Students Demand New Name for Building Honoring a KKK Leader

    For years, students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been asking school leaders to change the name of Saunders Hall, named after a former trustee who was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Last month, some stood outside the building with nooses around their necks and signs such as “THIS is what SAUNDERS would do to ME.”


    Mar 26, 2015

    Who Gets to be a .Doctor?
    Inside Higher Ed

    Who Gets to be a .Doctor?

    Should a doctor of philosophy be considered a .doctor? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, has yet to make web addresses ending in .doctor available, but the debate about who should be able to register for them has already begun. ICANN recently decided that .doctor should only be available to licensed medical practitioners, meaning the millions of Ph.D. holders in the U.S.

    Mar 26, 2015

    We Need to Unlock the Brain’s Secrets – Ethically
    Scientific American

    We Need to Unlock the Brain’s Secrets – Ethically

    President Amy Gutmann, Presidential Bioethics Commission chair, writes about three key areas of ethical concern in neuroscience research and application.


    Mar 26, 2015

    Cornell Provost: Private Donors Have Stepped Up to Save Medical Research
    The Washington Post

    Cornell Provost: Private Donors Have Stepped Up to Save Medical Research

    Sharp cuts in federal funding for medical research are having lasting impact, argues Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and Provost for Medical Affairs of Cornell University, including driving young researchers out of the field.

    Mar 25, 2015