Universities Australia is behind a new campaign called ‘Keep It Clever’. It aims to maintain a thriving university sector in Australia and to ensure proper, ongoing public investment in university education and research. The initiative argues that for Australia to…
Reefer and Research Administration

The word should have been “Reaper” not “Reefer”. I realized this faux pas the other day when I was in a GoToMeeting session and we were having a very lively discussion and it abruptly became uncomfortably quiet. I was sharing…

In biology, symbiosis is the name given to a mutually beneficial relationship between two or more organisms. Without this relationship, both may die, or at least not grow and reproduce as successfully. A recent article in Science, “Sulfur Oxidation Genes…

Or, more accurately, Gender and Research Administration – but then, that wouldn’t have grabbed your attention nearly as much! A recent post by David Grimm in the ScienceNow blog over at the AAAS Science website caught my attention. The original…

[video_player type=”youtube” youtube_remove_logo=”Y” youtube_show_title_bar=”Y” width=”560″ height=”315″ align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”20″]aHR0cDovL3lvdXR1LmJlL3JkX3l1YklIQTJN[/video_player] The National Science Foundation: A Foundation for Innovation A great new video posted last week by the National Science Foundation documenting the power of basic research to spur innovation and the…

The final report of the 2012 Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) Faculty Workload Survey is now available via the <a href="http://thefdp click this over here now.org” onclick=”_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’, ‘outbound-article’, ‘http://thefdp.org’, ‘FDP website’]);” target=”_blank”>FDP website. Tabulating results from over 13,000 faculty representing 111…

While neither the only nor the first to offer similar advice, the recent paper by Alberts, et al., in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws, is the most recent and one of the…

The STAR METRICS (Science and Technology for America’s Reinvestment: Measuring the Effect of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness and Science) project grew out of a collaboration between federal agencies and academic institutions – members of the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) – in…
Science in the Public Eye

Science is a common topic in the news today – the new Cosmos series, climate science, STEM education, genetically modified crops, stem cells, new drugs and vaccines, exploring Mars and beyond, evolution, pollution, nuclear waste, dinosaurs, even the President’s proposed…