Those of us who had the good fortune of knowing Carl Sagan are delighted to learn that the Ithaca Sciencecenter is leading the effort to have him honored with a US postage stamp. Apparently Sagan was a stamp collector as a child and his albums are still in his family.
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Late last year, Business Week reported comments by Harvard President Meg Faust suggesting that state schools that could no longer afford the competition should get out of the hard sciences, favoring the less expensive social sciences instead. President Faust denied making that statement, and the magazine, in a review of the tapes of the interview, [...]
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It looks like Harvard’s proposed science complex in North Allston is going to get the green light after the university agreed to a $24 million package for neighborhood redevelopment. There are still some aspects of this project that seem unclear from the article. For example, while the overall cost will be over $1 billion, the [...]
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The web gets to be more useful every day. Even if you’re not a life scientist have a look at the Bio Career Center site highlighted below. It offers all sorts of information for recent graduates from schools including Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as to participating employers.
What a great concept. [...]
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Well, I guess my students may have been right all along. The grading in science courses is harder than it is in the humanities, or so the evidence suggests at UPenn. It’s interesting to see how the Director of Academic Affairs tries to rationalize these data: smaller class sizes, better interaction between the students and [...]
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A team of astronomers using the Cornell University-run radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico have detected two key molecules believed to be important in the formation of living organisms, methanimine and hydrogen cyanide, in a galaxy 250 million light years away from Earth. This discovery suggests that these relatively complex molecules might be part [...]
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Can odor be used to diagnose disease and provide a guideline to treatment? Dr. William Hanson of the University of Pennsylvania is an anesthesiologist who thinks so and is researching an electronic nose to sense molecules in the breadth of patients that might be correlated with a variety of ailments. Speed, low cost, and non-invasiveness [...]
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Stanford University be a lead player in the creation of the Center for Ocean Solutions in Monterey, CA. Startup funding of $25 million was provided by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. The focus of the center’s research will be solutions to the many threats facing the world’s oceans.
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The New York Times reports that Columbia University plans to “junk” its cyclotron dating from the dawn of the nuclear age. This device, originally built in 1939 to test German reports of the smashing of the atom, is in danger of being demolished without historic preservation. Precisely how many of its key components will be [...]
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