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High Demand for Science Graduates Enables Them to Pick Their Jobs, Report Says

(Paul Baskin, Chronicle of Higher Education) -- A couple of years ago, a pair of researchers at Georgetown University and Rutgers University concluded that, contrary to widespread perception, the United States produces plenty of scientists and engineers. The problem, wrote Harold Salzman of Rutgers and B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown, is that fewer than half of all college graduates...

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National science medalist from University of Utah credits freedom and opportunity in U.S. for his success

(Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News) -- Peter Stang, the latest University of Utah scientist to receive the prestigious National Medal of Science, remembers the urgency of his parents to leave his native Hungary two days after his 15th birthday as Soviet tanks began rolling in to occupy the east European country in 1956. "It brought the old Soviet system: oppression and...

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Trading In ‘.edu’ for ‘.com’

(Josh Fischman, Chronicle of Higher Education) -- The news that, after what seems like forever, new Internet domain names will be allowed has sparked conversations among college CIO’s and communication specialists about the limits of the “.edu” domain. The news has also provoked serious talk about what might be gained by trading in those three letters strongly linked to...

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U. professor helping scientists see their work in a different way

(Geoffrey Fattah, Deseret News) -- Imagine recording everything you do in your life. Then imagine digging through tens of thousands of entries of data, trying to make sense of it all. With the recent advancement of genetic sequencing technology, scientists have experienced an explosion of information that, if analyzed, could lead to innovations in biology, find cures for diseases, and...

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