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  • June 2008

    • Big Pharma Sickens Universities

      Chronicle of Higher Education  |  Jun 22, 08 6:07 PM CDT

      Big Pharma Sickens Universities

      (Newser) - Weak legislation allows professors to collect huge under-the-table payments from Big Pharma, and it’s time to fight back, Dan Greenberg writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Pharmaceutical companies pay professors to shill drugs and lend their names to industry research, and the only oversight is an honor-system mechanism requiring profs to report outside income to the university—not to a federal agency. More »

    • Inside Academia, Subtler Sexism

      Inside Higher Ed  |  Jun 15, 08 2:17 PM CDT

      Inside Academia, Subtler Sexism

      (Newser) - Gender discrimination at research universities is surely much better than it was in decades past, but a study based on interviews of female faculty finds that sexism remains on campus, Inside Higher Ed reports. While overt shows of bias are rare, a host of subtler, “deeply entrenched inequities” have replaced them. Noted by the report are: More »

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      college  • sexism  • higher education  • gender discrimination  • academia  • gender bias

    • Profs to Buffy : You Slay Me

      Associated Press  |  Jun 6, 08 2:03 PM CDT

      Profs to Buffy : You Slay Me

      (Newser) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer started out lowbrow, but don’t tell that to the academics converging on Henderson State University today for a 3-day conference on the campy TV classic. The cheerleader-turned-monster fighter has inspired the kind of study usually reserved for major philosophers, the AP reports. The Arkansas university boasts a 15-foot bookshelf lined with Buffy books. More »

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      academia  • philosophy  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer  • Joss Whedon

  • May 2008

    • At Lefty U., Plans for Right-Wing Chair

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 13, 08 11:50 AM CDT

      At Lefty U., Plans for Right-Wing Chair

      (Newser) - Here’s a recipe for controversy: Take one of the nation’s most liberal schools—the University of Colorado at Boulder—and make it the home of the nation’s first endowed chair for Conservative Thought and Policy. The school’s Republican chancellor tells the Wall Street Journal the campus needs “intellectual diversity” alongside offerings on gay literature and Chicano studies. Critics, predictably, are legion—right and left. More »

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      conservative  • academia  • George Will  • University of Colorado  • political science

  • March 2008

    • Smithsonian Picks New Leader

      Associated Press  |  Mar 15, 08 2:25 PM CDT

      Smithsonian Picks New Leader

      (Newser) - The Smithsonian Institute today handed its top job to Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough, marking a return to the museum’s academic roots, the AP reports. Clough follows the troubled tenure of businessman Lawrence Small, who came under fire for raising executive salaries and for focusing more on money than on science. He once billed the institute $1.1 million for hosting official functions in his home. More »

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      museums  • academia  • Smithsonian  • Georgia Tech

  • February 2008

    • Colleges Explore Mormonism

      Boston Globe  |  Feb 19, 08 3:15 PM CST

      Colleges Explore Mormonism

      (Newser) - Academics, including those at most theological seminaries, have long ignored the study of Mormonism. But now, possibly because of a certain presidential candidate—or a certain HBO show—it's on the radar in religion departments and scholarly publishing houses, the Boston Globe reports. Harvard Divinity School just added its first course, and whole departments are cropping up at other non-Mormon universities. More »

    • Harvard Profs' Research Will Be Free on Web

      Boston Globe  |  Feb 13, 08 1:35 PM CST

      Harvard Profs' Research Will Be Free on Web

      (Newser) - In a move that could bring a major change to the culture of academia, the arts and sciences faculty of Harvard University yesterday voted unanimously to distribute their scholarship online for free rather than signing exclusive deals with obscure, often expensive scholarly journals. Journal officials worry, the Boston Globe reports, that the move threatens the peer-review process. More »

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      Internet  • Harvard  • professor  • academia  • journals

  • December 2007

    • Va. Tech to Turn Shooting Site into Peace Studies Center

      Washington Post  |  Dec 20, 07 6:20 PM CST

      Va. Tech to Turn Shooting Site into Peace Studies Center

      (Newser) - Virginia Tech's Norris Hall will soon house the university's new Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, in an effort to keep alive the memory of those who died in that building during the April 16 massacre. School officials announced the plan today, after a several months-long deliberation about how to use the massive, 4,300 square foot building, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      school shooting  • Virginia Tech shootings  • Virginia Tech  • academia

  • November 2007

    • Freud Is Everywhere but in Psych Dept

      New York Times  |  Nov 25, 07 10:59 AM CST

      Freud Is Everywhere but in Psych Dept

      (Newser) - Sigmund Freud's ideas have seeped into every corner of popular culture and academia, from film to foreign policy. The one place they've seeped out of is university psychology departments, where psychoanalysis is now viewed as obsolete, the New York Times reports. A new survey of 150 top colleges and universities confirms the couch's comedown: of 1,175 courses that referenced psychoanalysis, more than 86% were offered in other departments. More »

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      health insurance  • psychology  • neuroscience  • academia  • Sigmund Freud

  • July 2007

    • Heaven Can Wait, and So Must Research

      BBC  |  Jul 17, 07 4:39 PM CDT

      Heaven Can Wait, and So Must Research

      (Newser) - Despite rumblings from anxious researchers, the Vatican Library has closed its doors for at least 3 years to undergo renovations after an inspection this year revealed that the structure couldn’t support the weight of its books. Reading rooms were unusually full last week, the BBC reports, as researchers got in as much work as possible with time ticking down. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • research  • Rome  • academia  • Vatican Library

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