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...don’t think you should worry that giving others access to distance learning will somehow dilute or devalue the college experience. Even at its best, distance learning can’t replace what goes on when students and teachers gather, in-person, in the classroom, in a lab, or around a seminar table. If it can, then something is wrong with the way we are teaching.3.FM: Who are better students: the alums or the undergrads?MJS: Alums bring experience, undergrads an openness and inquisitiveness. Teaching undegraduates is a special privelege (except when they worry too much about grades...
Lack of oversight means lack of policing, which often leads to underreporting of potentially fatal accidents. Labs are required by law to report mishaps with select agents immediately to the CDC, but that doesn't always happen. Case in point: Last year, a bio-lab worker at Texas A&M University became infected with the deadly brucellosis virus. The university did not report the case and may never have admitted it if an industry gadfly, Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, had not persuaded a local district attorney to strong-arm the university into giving up its internal records...
Responding to intense criticism, the CDC is looking into forming external peer review panels to re-examine select-agent regulations and lab-safety procedures. The agency may also modify reporting requirements - possibly allowing some measure of anonymity, for example, to minimize disincentives for revealing accidents. "This is a relatively young program [which] is providing much improved oversight, but clearly there is more than we can do," says Richard Besser, director for the CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, who defends the recent lab expansion in the U.S., saying it will lead to better diagnostics and make...
Guests were greeted with an accordion sextet in lab coats and bow ties as they filed into Sanders Theatre last night for the Seventeenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Awards. The awards recognize unusual scientific achievement, which this year included a self-refilling bowl that induces unknowing subjects to eat extra servings of soup without feeling any fuller, to a study on the side effects of sword swallowing. A slew of past Nobel and Ig Nobel Laureates attended, including many who have become regular fixtures at the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Kees Moeliker said he has flown over from the Netherlands...
When a family of genetically modified mice started dying in a Harvard School of Public Health lab, researchers were puzzled...