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Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations(CAPA) Releases Its Key Priorities for Election 2010. 30/07/10
Postgraduates comprise 27% of the total student population and support close to 60% of Australia’s R&D effort. [More]
US Administration Releases Its "Science and Technology Priorities for the FY 2012 Budget." 30/07/10
The memo reiterates the President's long-term goal for investment in R&D to reach 3% of GDP. [More]
FASTS and AAS Ask a Sample of 1,515 Australians 6 Questions Involving Scientific Knowledge and 1 Opinion. 30/07/10
They have now released the results of their nationwide science literacy survey. [More]
Federation Fellow, Economist John Quiggin Addresses the Spectre of Howardian Antipathy to Academe. 28/07/10
While the popular media obsesses as to whether a barren-unwed-avowed-non-militant atheist should occupy The Lodge with her partner... [More]
Tracking Marsupial Evolution Through Retroposons. 28/07/10
The relationship between American and Australian marsupial populations has proved to be an enigma... until now. [More]
Two ANU Academics Voice Disgust Regarding Lack of Climate Change Policy. 23/07/10
Professor Warwick McKibbin Director of the Research School of Economics; Dr Frank Jotzo, Fellow at the ANU Crawford School of Economics and Government. [More]
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Remember Their Origins. 23/07/10
Two recent studies show that iPS cells retain some signatures of the tissue from which they were derived. [More]
BP Accused of Seeking to Limit Gulf Scientists' Publications. 23/07/10 [More]
[Updated July 29, 2010]
The Webcast of the 7th (July 16, 2010) PCAST Meeting of the Obama Administration. 22/07/10
The US President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology met on Friday, July 16, 2010 - the three scientific envoys have their say. [More]
Senator Carr Temporises on Research Funding. 21/07/10
Surely there is a better way to allocate $114 million, not to mention the resources diverted to undertake the machinations to implement Senator Carr's managerial obsessions. [More]
Some Comments by AAS President Suzanne Cory. 20/07/10
A short question and answer session with Professor Cory. [More]
Can Employer Demand for Researchers in Australia be Fulfilled? 19/07/10
Four years have past and by the end of next month we will have elected three different prime ministers and the response remains inadequate. [More]
Does the Sword of Damocles Hang Over British Science? 17/07/10
Britain's newly elected coalition government committed to public funding cuts of up to 25% and set October to be the month of reckoning. [More]
An Email from Mehitabel. 17/07/10
"The contract is what I now see as a typical public service project." [More]
Australian Stem Cell Centre Omitted from 2011-12 Federal Budget. 16/07/10
WEHI Director: "We're not likely to get all the skills we need if half the people are disenfranchised." [More]
Ari Shavit Looks Over Israeli Higher Education and Mourns. 15/07/10
Ari Shavit is a well known political columnist for Haaretz, which is considered Israel's most influential daily newspaper. [More]
Perhaps Some Useful Support for Science in Britain's New Coalition Government. 15/07/10
"In today's tough climate, UK science must produce evidence to affirm its worth to the nation." [More]
NSF Reports on Increase in Foreign Science and Engineering Enrollments. 15/07/10
Foreign enrollment rose in 2009 in all S&E fields except psychology. Mathematics and economics showed the greatest percentage gains. [More]
Life After CSIRO for Dr Geoffrey Garrett AO. 14/07/10 [More]
PCAST's July 16 Meeting. 14/07/10
Included will be updates on the Health Information Technology Study, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Study and the President’s Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). [More]
Two Hippocratic Oaths for University Scholars and Managers. 14/07/10
Geoff Sharrock outlines codes of behaviour in an attempt to unify a sense of purpose for universities. [More]
Algal Synthesiser Pilot Facility for Rapid CO2 Emissions Reduction Under Way. 11/07/10
The facility is intended to be progressively expanded over the coming five to 10 years to consume daily "more than half of all of Tarong Power Station's problem flue-gas emissions". [More]
Britain's Research Excellence Framework Delayed. 10/07/10
The UK Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, yesterday announced a one-year delay in the introduction of its Research Excellence Framework (REF). [More]
NSF to Undertake Fostering Expanding Participation in STEM. 09/07/10
Its "goal is to enrich the quality and innovation potential of tomorrow’s STEM workforce through comprehensive broadening participation of undergraduates in STEM". [More]
More on Metric Pitfalls. 08/07/10
This past June TFW summarised an extensive Nature assessment regarding "The Use and Misuse of Metrics in Evaluation". Today's issue of the journal publishes three "correspondence" in response. [More]
A Pithy Comment on the Russell Report from Kevin Trenberth. 08/07/10
I am really criticizing the mandate for the committee and they did not go beyond that. [More]
Senator Carr Addresses the Innovate Research Universities Senior Staff Forum. 07/07/10
Much, but not all, of what he had to say was reiteration of what the past 30 months under a Labor government has achieved. [More]
Fifteen Academic Researchers Awarded Australian Laureate Fellowships. 07/07/10
These fellowships replace the Federation Fellowships provided by the federal Coalition Government under Prime Minister John Howard. [More]
Thumbnails of the Royal Society's 350 Years. 06/07/10
Eight glimpses into the history of the Royal Society. [More]
CSIRO Being Joined at the Hip to Fossil Fuels? 05/07/10 [More]
The Effect of Ocean Changes. 05/07/10
By 2100, rising sea levels from ocean thermal expansion and increasing ocean mass... will expose an additional tens of millions of people annually to the risk of coastal flooding. [More]
Next PCAST Meeting Scheduled for July 16. 02/07/10
The portion of the meeting open to the public is scheduled to hear presentations on space policy and science, technology, and diplomacy. [More]
National Academies to Study the Future of US Research Universities. 01/07/10
US research universities argue the federal government needs to play a greater role in financing science and research at public institutions. [More]