Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonPositive aid to sugar controlWeight-loss surgery is not a cure for type 2 diabetes, but it can improve blood-sugar control, a study has found. Previous studies have claimed...
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Odds and quads
Helen and Edith Chesebrough rest on the steps with their Airedale terriers - Rough, Radiance and Master Nobbler - in Burlingame, California in 1917. Three years later, Anita Blake poses with a lapdog...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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We'll always be here for you
US universities are offering alumni new levels of professional and intellectual support in an effort to build lifelong relationships that pay long-term benefits. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
? Top marks to zoology researchers at the University of Oxford for their canny PR. Finding a new species of crab on the ocean floor near Antarctica would not normally win newspaper column inches nor...
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From where I sit - Creative accounting
How do you teach the humanities to MBA students without them demanding a refund on their tuition fees? And, at a time when the humanities are under threat at many universities, what is the value of...
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Appointments
University of Texas at AustinAndy EllingtonA researcher has won a major grant to develop a simple paper-based test for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Andy Ellington, who is Wilson and Kathryn Fraser...
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Leader: The art of giving and receiving
Universities have to support alumni with their careers if they wish to see graduates open their wallets in support of them
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Research Intelligence - The decline and shortfall of US science
Funding model for the world's research powerhouse may be irrevocably broken, Jon Marcus is told
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A careless reference can do more damage than sticks and stones
Athene Donald warns referees about the unintended and potentially career-damaging effects of using certain words to describe women
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Warming to life in the hot zone
That people should be moved out of a former nuclear test site seemed a no-brainer. But spending time with those affected led two researchers to revise their views. David Mould reports
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Share and save alike
Malcolm Gillies on the benefits of collaboration in the wake of VAT reform
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12 January 2012
How engaging - Wooing alumni with the promise of lifelong relationships
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Concern as pay-day loans company targets students
A pay-day loans company has been accused of preying on vulnerable students after advertising itself as an alternative to government-backed student loans.
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Nuclear scientist killed in bomb attack in Iran
An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed by a car bomb in the capital Tehran.