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...progress, it would still not accurately reflect the added value of the college experience. This risks the potential misinformation of prospective students, their parents, their future employers, and anyone else interested in appraising an institution of higher learning.Moreover, while it is true that no students—whether at Caltech or RISD, an Ivy League school, or a community college—should be graduating without at least some basic knowledge or skill sets, the observed deficiencies in their baseline ability are reflective of failures in a separate domain, namely that of secondary education. Because America’s high...
...size of individual grants shrinks, university researchers have to win more of them to keep research going, which requires enormous amounts of extra paperwork. "It's decreased their quality of life," says Paul Jennings, provost of Caltech and a civil engineer. When students see how much time a professor spends on bureaucratic busywork, says Jennings, they say, "I don't want to do that." It's not just red tape either, says Paul Nurse, president of Rockefeller University and a 2001 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine. "If we compare what our best undergraduates get paid as a graduate student...
Steven Quartz, director of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Caltech, is one of many experts moving into neuromarketing. He is helping Hollywood studios select trailers for new movies by scanning viewers as they watch a series of scenes to see which ones elicit the strongest reactions in the parts of the brain that are associated with reward expectations. Quartz, who works in partnership with market-research company Lieberman Research Worldwide, is similarly scanning consumers to identify emotional reactions to TV commercials and to products' packaging design...
...professor who conducted research at MIT and Caltech after graduating from Harvard Medical School (HMS) has admitted to falsifying data in at least one published paper and has been fired from his post at MIT.Luk Van Parijs, an associate professor of biology at MIT until last week, is also the subject of an inquiry at Caltech. The MIT investigation concluded that he fabricated and falsified research data in a published scientific paper, as well as grant proposals and manuscripts.A subsequent article published online Friday in the New Scientist also said that Van Parijs, who specializes in immunology, may have falsified...
...July, Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, made an announcement that took the debate to a whole new plane. Along with his colleague Chad Trujillo, Brown had found something very much like Pluto, only bigger, and last month he declared that the object known officially as 2003 UB313--and temporarily nicknamed Xena--has its own little moon. Suddenly, the question Tyson had raised to make a provocative educational point became something much larger: if Pluto is a planet, then Brown's new object must be one as well...