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UW fails to make list of top 25 places to do research

!aaThis list from The Scientist is not credible. 

We could start with the odd idea that science is biology and national chauvinism.  The accompanying article begins with a paen to the failure of the National Institutes of Health budget  to keep up with inflation and utterly misses the huge impact of the genome project … not just in new knowledge but in inflating the avenues science can pursue.

What I find odd is that some of the greatest institutions that have huge reputations for being great places to work are missing … MIT, CERN, The Plancks, Karolinska, UNC, … UW?

Of course the fault may be with who The Scientist surveyed and the questions that were asked. How did the survey balance  access to great research, and collaborations versus family-care policies?  The survey found that good health-care coverage was the second ranking factor,  the first was “personal satisfaction.”

Some of the places on it truly do stand out … the Gladstone, La Jolla, Sherbooke, ???  Others seem to be here because they are noted for expensive PR campaigns.

 


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