LONDON, Aug. 11 – British regulators on Wednesday issued the country’s first license to use cloning techniques to generate a human embryo to produce stem cells that might be used for the treatment of disease.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 – Susan Lim, a 20-year-old Georgetown University student, is working 89 hours a week this summer: two part-time jobs and an unpaid internship offered through the Public Policy and International Affairs Program.
LANGHORNE, Pa. (AP) — First lady Laura Bush, defending her husband’s policy on embryonic stem cell research, accuses proponents of overstating the potential for medical breakthroughs and says it is “ridiculous” for John Kerry to claim the president has banned the research.
OXFORD, England – Construction had barely begun in February on a research laboratory at Oxford University – one scheduled to experiment with animals – when the string of violent incidents began.
WHEN the budding pundit Walter Lippmann coined the term ”stereotype” back in 1922, he offered several examples from the America of his time: ”Agitator.” ”Intellectual.” ”South European.” ”From the Back Bay.” You know, he told the reader, when a glimpse and a word or two create a full mental picture of a whole group of people. As in ”plutocrat.” Or ”foreigner.” Or ”Harvard man.”
WHEN Teachers College at Columbia first started thinking about renovating its library about six years ago, the first question to answer was whether a library is even necessary anymore, says Gary Natriello, the library’s interim director. Maybe the library was going the way of carbon paper, an artifact of the predigital age.
Stem cell research was back in the news with a vengeance last week. The Bush Administration announced plans to speed up work on approved cell lines, while Democrats revealed that Ron Reagan Jr. will address their national convention on the promise of stem cell research (see p. 473). A conservative senator held a hearing to showcase the virtues of adult stem cells, which are ethically less troublesome than embryonic cells. All this activity suggests that the issue will be visible in the fall election despite the lack of any planned votes in Congress.
The fast-growing movement to unionize graduate students at the nation’s private universities suffered a crushing setback yesterday when the National Labor Relations Board reversed itself and ruled that students who worked as research and teaching assistants did not have the right to unionize.
Harvard University’s new treasurer, the official charged with directing that institution’s financial matters, is the head of a mutual fund company under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Wisconsin Taxpayer Alliance released a report Friday that found tuition had increased at University of Wisconsin System schools 26.6 percent from the 1998-99 to the 2002-03 school years. Financial aid was up 16.3 percent in that same period.
Sources Say Administrator Who Clashed With Coach Bobby Knight Is In The Running To Succeed Lyall
A Texas administrator who made national headlines as a verbal punching bag for mercurial college basketball coach Bobby Knight is a top candidate to lead the University of Wisconsin System, according to sources close to the selection process.
David R. Smith, a physician and chancellor of Texas Tech University System since May 2002, is among a handful of candidates rising to the top, the sources said.
The UW-Madison Office of Corporate Relations has begun an online UW Business News Wire.
