Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: In an unmarked laboratory stationed between the campuses of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a splinter group of scientists is hunting for the next billion-dollar drug. … Continue reading The Billionaires Spending a Fortune To Lure Scientists Away From Universities
Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned earlier this month over plagiarism claims, sparking an online debate over academic copying. While many say original writing remains essential, some researchers argue for more flexibility, as long as so… Continue reading What Counts as Plagiarism? Harvard President’s Resignation Sparks Debate
An anonymous reader writes: Millions of dollars have gone down the drain right when the Chicago Public Schools face a looming budget deficit — as a brand-new CPS Inspector General report revealed the district lost thousands of computers and devices in… Continue reading Chicago Public Schools Lost Over $20 Million In Electronics In One Year, Report Says
Jonathan Henry, a vice president at the University of Maine at Augusta, is hoping that an email will arrive this month. He is also sort of dreading it. The message, if it comes, will tell him that U.S. News & World Report has again ranked his unive… Continue reading US News Makes Money From Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges
This week Harvard’s president Claudine Gay resigned “after conservative activists revealed she had plagiarized,” writes Business Insider, adding that hedge fund manager/prominent Harvard donor Bill Ackman “helped lead the charge.”
Then Business Insid… Continue reading After Reports of His Own Wife’s Plagiarism, Bill Ackman Threatens Plagiarism Reviews For All MIT Faculty
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Los Angeles Times: The former Westside Pavilion, a long shuttered indoor mall, will be transformed into a UCLA biomedical research center aimed at tackling such towering challenges as curing cancer and preve… Continue reading UCLA Will Transform Dead Westside Mall Into Major Science Innovation Center
A Nobel Prize-winning labor market economist has cautioned younger generations against piling into studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, saying as “empathetic” and creative skills may thrive in a world dominated by… Continue reading Nobel Prize Winner Cautions on Rush Into STEM
theodp writes: Among the 45 winners of this year’s Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program competitions is Creative Coders: Middle School CS Pathways Through Game Design (PDF). The U.S. Dept. of Education is providing the national nonprofit Urb… Continue reading US Department of Education Spending $4 Million To Teach 3,450 Kids CS Using Minecraft
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this article from the Atlantic:
For the past few years, parents, researchers, and the news media have paid closer attention to the relationship between teenagers’ phone use and their mental health. Researchers s… Continue reading Are Phones Making the World’s Students Dumber?
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp writes: Way back in September 2012, Microsoft President Brad Smith discussed the idea of “producing a crisis” to advance Microsoft’s “two-pronged” National Talent Strategy to increase K-12 CS education and the number of … Continue reading Microsoft President Brad Smith Quietly Leaves Board of Nonprofit Code.org