Last August, the University of California and Nature Publishing Group, announced “an agreement to work together to address the current licensing challenges as well as the larger issues of sustainability in the scholarly communication process.” I can find nothing on the web about[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Medical School’
February 24th, 2011 - 8:14 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
UPDATE:What Happened to the Boycott of NATURE?
Awards to UW Faculty
Bill Catterall honored with Wachter Research Prize (from UW Medicine) Bill Catterall, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, has been awarded the 2010 Wachter Research Prize by the University of Innsbruck, Austria, for exceptional scientific achievements in all fields of medicine. Catterall was re[...]
December 20th, 2010 - 9:11 am § in Misc.
Academic Equality, Swedish Style
Swedish med students perform prof’s autopsy Medical students at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute (KI) set to perform their first-ever clinical autopsy were floored to discover that the corpse was none other than one of their former instructors. more here[...]
December 3rd, 2010 - 10:49 am § in Misc.
Hype, Splash and Scientific Journals
NASA announced they had found a new kind of life . This kind of hype is all too common even in the most prestigious scientific journals. Nature and Science, sitting on top of the prestige heap, both give too much priority to splash and even publish work that less political journals reject. Publi[...]
August 6th, 2010 - 9:14 am § in Uncategorized
Howard Dean: Mandated Health Care NOT NEEDED!
I supported Obama in part because his ideas were not simplistic. A good example was his plan for health care. That plan, with the addition of a mandate, is now the law .. a law threatened by court cases that claim the mandate is unconstitutional. Howard Dean argues that the mandate was ALW[...]
June 8th, 2010 - 2:45 pm § in Misc.
Stanford Medical Students Study Own Genomes!
Forbes… BusinessWire – In a step toward preparing physicians and biomedical researchers for a future where genomic testing increasingly becomes part of medical care, the Stanford University School of Medicine is offering a new course in which medical and graduate students will be given t[...]