The President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Thomas R. Cech, has announced that he plans to step down in the spring of 2009. Cech plans to return to academia and continue his research activities. ScienceNow reports that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is the largest private biomedical research funder in the United States, with an [...]
Nearly one in ten schools has been shut during the biggest teachers’ strike in England and Wales. More than 400,000 teachers, lecturers, civil and public servants have walked out in a one-day protest, demanding that their salaries be increased by 4.1 percent. The BBC reports that the one-day teachers’ protest was condemned by all the [...]
According to Pew Internet & American Life Project and the College Board’s National Commission on Writing study around two thirds of 700 students surveyed admit that they often use e-communication styles in school assignments. As a result, some students omit punctuation and capitalization, while others use emotions or text shortcuts like “LOL” for “laugh out [...]
David Rockefeller, the youngest and the only surviving child and grandchild of the prominent John D. Rockefeller, is donating $100 million to Harvard University. The Rockefeller donation will be used both to support international study programs for undergraduates at Harvard as well as the university’s efforts to expand its arts education. The New York Times [...]
The Bush administration has submitted a written proposal to the Congress seeking to buy student credit loans. By doing so, the administration hopes to provide capital to lenders for new student loans and to make sure that the nation’s credit crunch does not prevent students from borrowing money for receiving a higher education. The New [...]
The Fiske Museum at California’s Claremont Colleges has sold its collection of rare musical instruments to the Musical Instrument Museum which will open in 2010. The project to build the new museum is backed financially by Robert Ulrich, chairman of the Target Corporation. The Claremont Colleges’ collection of rare musical instruments includes an 18th century [...]
The Charles R. Drew University plans to build a new facility for its Nursing School students, staff and professors. The construction of the new building, which is the first comprehensive training facility to be built in California in years, should be completed in Fall 2009. The Los Angeles Times reports that the building of the [...]