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How to Solve the Student-Disengagement Crisis
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education Six experts diagnose the problem — and suggest ways to fix it.
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Clearview AI agrees to permanent ban on selling facial recognition to private companies
Source: The Verge Clearview dropped most private contracts in 2020.
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Illinois college, hit by ransomware attack, to shut down
Source: NBC News Lincoln College, which broke ground in 1865, is one of only a handful of rural American colleges that qualify as predominantly Black institutions by the Department of Education.
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FDA Declines to Disqualify Minneapolis Investigators and IRB from Running Trials
Source: CenterWatch The FDA has turned down a citizen petition seeking that the investigators and the institutional review board (IRB) at Minneapolis, Minn.-based Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) be barred from conducting clinical trials.
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CDC investigating 109 unusual hepatitis cases in kids in outbreak
Source: STAT News The number of suspected hepatitis cases in children has risen to more than 100 in the U.S., and the CDC focuses on an adenovirus.
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U.S. math professor found guilty in latest China Initiative trial
Source: Science Mingqing Xiao convicted on tax charges, but found not guilty of grant fraud.
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Pandemic delays to afflict polar science until late this decade
Source: Science Backlog of NSF-funded work will allow few new U.S. large projects.
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The Research on How Nature Affects Mental Health Has a WEIRD Problem
Source: Vice That's WEIRD as in Western-Educated-Industrialized-Rich-Democratic.
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MIT students and postdocs advocate for increased federal support of scientific research on Capitol Hill
Source: MIT News Students and postdocs from MIT's Science Policy Initiative met with lawmakers to advocate for increased science-engineering-technology funding on Congressional Visit Days 2022.
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