Linda Chalker Scott: Associate Professor and Extension Urban Horticulturist What’s the most disappointing about WSU’s pursuit of a medical school is that at the same time it continues to diminish its statewide presence in Extension. Over the last several years WSU has cut county funding to Exten[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
October 7th, 2014 - 8:40 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The UW vs the WSU: a view from Pullman
October 6th, 2014 - 12:30 pm § in Schools & Colleges
New Term Starts in Germany .. WITH NO TUITION!
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THE Ave Challenge: Who will get the call from Stockholm next Sunday night.
THE-Ave.US Challenge: who is going to win the Nobel? Next Sunday night (US time), about 9 AM Monday Stockholm time, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. I[...]
September 30th, 2014 - 6:06 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Student Debt
This past April, facing the prospect of three 20-page papers due in the same week, Indiana University East student Harmony Glenn had a panic attack in the school library. “I couldn’t breathe, and my chest felt tight,” she said. “I was asking myself, ‘Do I push forward…or do I cut my loss[...]
September 29th, 2014 - 9:51 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
Hutch raised 49 million to fight cancer with immunology.
Bucks for T and B Cells One of the wonders of vertebrates is that we have a vascular system .. a system of pipes that carries blood all over your body. What you may not realize is that evolution not only gave us plumbing but cells to patrol those pipes .. cells called T and […][...]
September 27th, 2014 - 9:42 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Shall We End Tenure?
The President of the UW AAUP, Rob Wood, addressed the non tenure issues at UWB and UWT as a labor issue. (see below) I suggest that he is missing the point. There are two critical questions : 1. Are UWB and UWT vocational schools or research campuses? Despite the quality of faculty at[...]
Florida Governor’s Campaign Manager Appointed as President of Florida State University
Florida GOP state senator John Thrasher has been named the President of Florida State University. He has no academic credentials. Mr. Thatcher was the only one (of four) finalists who lacked academic leadership experience. After he spoke to hundreds of students and faculty, 87% of the audi[...]
Is The Nobel Next for Mary Claire King?
Do you know what happens at midnight on Oct 5? That is the time (9AM in Stockholm) when the Nobel Committee will announce the 2014 awards for Medicine. More than one person in Seattle will be waiting for the phone call but the candidate I am most excited about is Mary Claire King of the […][...]
DON’T TRUST THE SCIENTISTS!
A HuffPost/YouGov poll lst Fall showed that only 36 percent of Americans have “a lot” of trust that scientists are accurate and reliable. Making matter worse the poll showed that a whopping majorities of about 80 percent think that information reported in scientific studies is ta[...]
“The one thing we don’t do yet – we don’t graduate any Cougar doctors” WSU Regent Mike Worthy
Should WASU have its own medical school? WSU Regents have voted to seek accreditation for its own medical school. This is resulting in an embarrassing “food fight” over a trivial sum of $24 million dollars funding from the 2015 legislative session at a time when the state budg[...]