All Academia articles – Page 25
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NewsUK’s Erasmus+ student exchange replacement opens for applications
Financial support for tuition feeds ends while travel grants will be limited to students from disadvantaged backgrounds
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NewsPractical chemistry classes resume at English universities
Lifting of lockdown restrictions allows students to return to teaching laboratories
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NewsRenowned Taiwanese chemical engineer fined for China links
National Taiwan University’s Lee Duu-Jong reportedly denies that he headed research sponsored by mainland China without island approval
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NewsDozens of leading scientists speak up for Harvard chemist Charles Lieber
Nobel laureates and other preeminent researchers urge the US Department of Justice to drop its case against him
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NewsDetails on science funding scarce in latest UK budget
Concerns voiced over R&D’s exact role in economic recovery from the pandemic and paying for membership of the EU’s science programme
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NewsRapping atmospheric scientists scoop Dance Your PhD award
Computational research trio spit rhymes about cloud condensation nuclei
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NewsPrinceton fined for export violations involving controlled pathogens
37 violations relate to exporting strains and recombinants of animal pathogen to foreign research facilities
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NewsScientists back creation of an international body to oversee chemicals and waste
New organisation could tackle problem of ‘limited and fragmented’ coverage of environmental impact of these issues
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NewsGreen light for world’s first Sars-CoV-2 studies that will infect healthy volunteers
UK trials will assess how well Covid-19 treatments work and if vaccines protect against new virus variants
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NewsFunding body plans to revive research fortunes of India’s left behind universities
National Research Foundation aims to rejuvenate and transform the country’s research with well-funded five-year programme
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NewsUK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022
£800 million fund is based on the US Advanced Research Projects Agency model
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NewsBrutal winter storm freezes Texas chemists’ research
Extreme cold in Texas has burst pipes and flooded labs at several universities
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NewsEuropean commission to reconsider how it announces winners of Marie Curie fellowships
Some researchers applying for the EU scheme were left in limbo over whether or not they had won an award
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NewsUK’s £800m ‘blue skies’ research funder still has no clear purpose
House of Commons calls on government to find focus for Advanced Research Projects Agency
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NewsElite scientists picking up more citations than ever as the rest lose out
Top 1% of scientists took 21% of citations in 2015
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NewsWage rise for Max Planck PhD candidates approved
Around 3400 doctoral researchers will benefit from the higher salary
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NewsUK funding agency hack could be ‘legally and intellectually significant’
Data breach hits grant proposals across UK Research and Innovation
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NewsDozens of publishers oppose key provision in open access Plan S
Over 50 publishers fear open access publishing initiative’s ‘Rights Retention’ strategy could harm journal revenue and article quality
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NewsWellcome Leap launches global network to tackle pressing health issues
More than 20 research institutions are part of new effort to the cut red tape hindering research
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NewsMIT faculty rally around colleague arrested for Chinese government links
Letter to university’s president signed by 170 faculty members debunks charges against nanotechnologist Gang Chen