Bravo Harvard
Harvard announced yesterday that it would waive tuitions for undergrads whose families earn less than $60,000 annually. From the Harvard Crimson: The newly expanded financial aid program, which will...
View ArticleThe Gap in Higher Institutions of Learnning
Ah, back to work. One thing I miss about being at the microscope is listening to NPR. A couple of hours ago there was a good piece on Here & Now about the gap between rich universities and poor...
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Summers and the Allston expansion. Latest stats on gender and higher education. And free books! Ladies and Gentlemen start your hard drives. (all quotes+links below the fold) From today’s Boston Globe:...
View ArticleEditorial on Education
From today’s NY Times editorial section: The national education reform effort has long suffered from magical thinking about what it takes to improve children’s chances of learning. Instead of homing in...
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Cool Animation of Cellular Processes
Here is a link to an awesome animation (via Pure Pedantry). You have your membranes, actin and microtubule cytoskeleton, kinesin based vesicular transport, mRNA nuclear export, protein synthesis and...
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Editorial on the Cost of Higher Education
From today’s NYTimes: Killing Off the American Future America’s domination of the global information economy did not come about by accident. It flowed directly from policies that allowed the largest...
View ArticleSome more rankings
For some reason I have this irrational love of statistics. It could be due to the fact that as a microscopist I am very weary of qualitative data … it’s easy to see what you want to see. Quantification...
View ArticleEditorial in Today’s NY Times on College Sports
One thing I never understood about US colleges is the amount of money pumped into their sports teams. It’s an open invitation to wasted resources and (in worse case scenarios) corruption. From today’s...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Video – Paul Nurse, Lisa Randall, Harold Varmus, Shirley Ann...
Charlie Rose Science Series: The Imperative of Science.
View ArticleNotes from Kindergarten
A friend of mine just sent this to me (for the record, he’s a structure biologist, i.e. he studies the structure of proteins and other biological molecules): My kid had a screen session with a school...
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