http://chronicle.com/topic/Research/102/ Topics :: Research Fri, 18 May 2012 03:44:58 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131853/ http://chronicle.com/article/NIH-Is-Prodded-to-Consider-a/131853/ Which disease gets what money has long been a topic of debate. The newest proposal uses metrics from the financial world.

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131818/ http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Death-Bad-for-You-/131818/ It sure seems like it, but ...

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131784/ http://chronicle.com/article/State-Climatologists-Caught-in/131784/ The academics—who are also college faculty members—have lost their jobs over markedly different stances on global warming.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131793/ http://chronicle.com/article/Climate-Scientists-Meet-the/131793/ Five researchers react differently to the global-warming debate, and they explain why.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131791/ http://chronicle.com/article/Politics-Aside-Climate/131791/ Most scientists agree that it's getting hotter. But if you want to know why, and how, and what's going to happen next, the answers aren't as easy.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131761/ http://chronicle.com/article/Do-Birds-Have-Emotions-/131761/ It's impossible, at this point, to know, but the evidence is tantalizing.

]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131734/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Professors-Son-Leads-Him-to/131734/ Sen-Ching Cheung, an electrical engineer at the University of Kentucky, puts his digital-imaging skills to work on what he hopes will be a useful therapy.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131580/ http://chronicle.com/article/Shift-Happens/131580/ On its 50th anniversary, Thomas Kuhn’s "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" remains not only revolutionary but controversial.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131581/ http://chronicle.com/article/EvoPolitics/131581/ Partisan manipulation of Darwinian notions yields some strange, simplistic conclusions.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131584/ http://chronicle.com/article/Osama-bin-Laden-Made-Me/131584/ Bernard Lewis is credited with providing the intellectual firepower for the war in Iraq. Now he says he opposed it from the start.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131585/ http://chronicle.com/article/Lillian-Hellmans-Convictions/131585/ We can continue to flog the writer for her abrasive moralism, or we can seek a more nuanced view of her politics.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131582/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Sociologist-as-Ethical/131582/ The late Irving Louis Horowitz paired his intellectual and business instincts to bold, unorthodox effect.

]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131481/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Chosen-Genes/131481/ Geographically and culturally distant Jews have more genes in common than they do with non-Jews around them, a new book says.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131540/ http://chronicle.com/article/How-Queensland-Became-a-Smart/131540/ Other governments may benefit from lessons learned during the Australian state's 14-year drive to remake itself as a knowledge economy.

]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131430/ http://chronicle.com/article/Psychologys-Missing-Contexts/131430/ Methodological, biological, and cultural variables are key, and researchers should design and report experiments in a more humble and precise way.

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131428/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Naked-Truth-at-Stanford/131428/ When, if ever, is it right to get in people's faces with awful truths you believe in?

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131456/ http://chronicle.com/article/Robert-Shillers-Mission-to/131456/ The prominent behavioral economist defends the field in his new book, but does he risk landing on the wrong side of public opinion—and his conscience?

]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131405/ http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-Future-Scientists-to/131405/ A new program seeks to convince young researchers early on about the importance of communicating with the public.

]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131413/ http://chronicle.com/article/Union-Membership-Among-Faculty/131413/ A study found a substantial increase over five years. But gains may slow, it says, in part because of state efforts to curtail collective-bargaining rights.

]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:55:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131361/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Endangered-Scholarly-Book/131361/ Done properly, they are still a key contribution to the scholarly conversation.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:00:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131385/ http://chronicle.com/article/With-Earmarks-Banned-Colleges/131385/ Campus officials scout out new sources of funds, but winning competitively awarded grants calls for a new game plan.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131323/ http://chronicle.com/article/You-Are-Not-Alone/131323/ Life gets in the way of writing. But a circle of peers can help spur you on.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131387/ http://chronicle.com/article/Wealthy-Institute-in-Seattle/131387/ The Allen Institute for Brain Research, financed by Paul G. Allen, is drawing neurobiologists from Harvard, Stanford, and other universities.

]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131277/ http://chronicle.com/article/Accordion-File/131277/ Once upon a time, the squeezebox reigned supreme. A new book traces its cultural history in America.

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131299/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Retired-Professors-Research/131299/ Many universities cite the statistics, even though the NIH abandoned the compilation of such measurements as an unreliable indicator of quality.

]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/131307/ http://chronicle.com/article/For-Science-PhDs-There-Is/131307/ Too many young researchers are made to feel worthless because of their desire to leave academic science.

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