On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patent on BRCA1 gene was invalid. Mary Claire King, now a Professor at the University of Washington, discovered BRCA1 and showed that is it is associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The suit cha[...]
Posts Tagged ‘academic freedom’
January 1st, 2011 - 6:17 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Bill Gates on Research In Education
We spend more money by every measure than any other system. Any way you look at it we spend by far the most money. So that is a dilemma. What are we going to do to get more out of the investments we make? Are there practices in terms of helping teachers be better that […][...]
December 30th, 2010 - 9:02 am § in Misc.
Historians Find Myriad Errors In Virginia History Textbooks
Among The Errors … That Many African-Americans Fought For The South During The Civil War … That The Confederacy Included 12 States … & That The U.S. Entered WWI In 1916 Why is this NOT surprising? Liberal and Conservatives all see t believe that their beliefs can be legislate[...]
UW seen from conservative eyes.
The University of Washington By Michael J. Thompson, on Aug 14, 2010 The UW is seen by many on the right as a frivolity, a place where elitist profs teach meaningless courses. This post is part of a more serious consideration by CampusReform.org, Their guide to the nation’s top 100 colle[...]
December 22nd, 2010 - 1:47 pm § in UW
Oh too Cautious Statement on Academic Freedom
(disclaimer: I have taken the academic freedom of retouching a picture of Cary Nelson to look like Santa and me!) Cary Nelson, current President of the national AAUP, has a year ending post on the most important tenet of the AAUP, Academic Freedom. Sadly, what comes off is an overly legalistic[...]
December 16th, 2010 - 10:27 pm § in Politics
Limits on Free Speach Overturned by Penn. State Faculty
PENN STATE FACULTY CODE “No faculty member may claim as a right the privilege of discussing in the classroom controversial topics outside his/her own field of study. The faculty member is normally bound not to take advantage of his/her position by introducing into the classroom provocative dis[...]
December 16th, 2010 - 11:04 am § in Misc.
Amy Hagopian, UW Professor, Target of Fox Machine
An Indecent Man: Bill O’Reilly’s Shameful Campaign Against Amy Hagopian David Zarin at Huff Post In my mind, when the Fox News star Bill O’Reilly decides to make you a target, it’s a badge of honor. This is a man who politically is a proud Islamaphobe, declaring, “We ha[...]
December 14th, 2010 - 12:08 am § in Politics
National Privatized Radio (c) NPR 2011
Michael Hood at Blatherwatch writes about the right wing effort to defund NPR. While NPR itself now only receives 2% of its funding from Congress, the real danger may well be to KUOW and the other locaL affiliates. The local stations get about 10% of their budgets from Congress. That is only $90 m[...]
December 11th, 2010 - 3:55 am § in Misc.
UW Senate Reviews Emmert’s Arbitrary Decisions in the Aprikyan Case
News on Aprikyan (see previous entries here): The Senate leadership and the Secretary of the Faculty are seeking advice from the Advisory Committee on Faculty Code and Regulations about the principles upon which the President based his overturning of the faculty Panel’s decision. The plan is for[...]
December 4th, 2010 - 12:27 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Lets Get Rid of Philosphy and Anthropology!
Philosophers and Anthropologists Defend Threatened Programs By Peter Schmidt (Chronicle of Higher Education) Leaders of both the American Philosophical Association and the American Anthropological Association have urged Howard University to preserve programs in their respective fields as it contem[...]