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Study: Prepare grad students for work beyond academia

Universities need to work more closely with business, nonprofit and government sectors to better prepare graduate students for careers beyond academia, according to the report for a national project that a UC Davis dean helped ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social robotics: Beyond the uncanny valley

(PhysOrg.com) -- From science fiction and academia through assembly lines and telemedicine, robots have become both conceptually and physically ubiquitous. Technologically, robotics technology has advanced ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

UN panel sets target to connect poor to broadband

(AP) -- A United Nations panel has given governments a target of connecting half the world's poor citizens to broadband Internet by 2015.

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 8

The new opinion makers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shorter deadlines and fewer staff are pushing traditional news outlets to publish increasingly superficial stories. Andrew Jaspan, Editor of the new media channel The Conversation, explains how academia is ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Exploding the ivory tower myth

When people think about how academia links with external organisations they often think in terms of commercialisation of research. But the results of a large-scale survey of academics across all disciplines ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

What's in a name? Lots for the newly discovered

The nearly three century old method for naming newly discovered nature will face a rebellion this Friday at Yale University.

Biology / Other

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Study shows students find personal tweets from professors makes them more credible

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that will surely shake the ivory towers of academia, authors Kirsten Johnson and undergraduate student Jamie Bartolino, both of Elizabethtown College, have published a paper in ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report