Science Career Magazine

Issue for October 29, 1999

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Study Casts Doubt on Union Skeptics

By  Mark Sincell  - A ny graduate student who so much as mentions the word "union" in the presence of a university administrator has probably heard the argument: Unions poison the educational relationship between faculty and students. But a new study of 299 faculty members at five universities with

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Grad Students Head to Class as New NSF Teaching Fellows

By  Jeffrey Mervis  - From the 29 October issue of Science magazine. A s a third-year graduate student in organic chemistry at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Donald Probst is well on his way to

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Younger Chemists Committee

By  Next Wave Staff  - T he Younger Chemists Committee (YCC), a committee of the American Chemical Society, has put together a Web site that not only brings together their organization, but provides advice, help, and support to their fellow younger chemists. Like most organizational Web sites, the

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MEETING BRIEF: SOCIETY OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATORS MEETING

By  Vid Mohan-Ram  - DENVER-- Last week over one thousand administrators from academia, private institutions, and industrial enterprises gathered in downtown Denver for the Society of Research Administrators meeting. They managed to cover everything from the latest in electronic commerce and federal research financing to the benefits of humor

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Freedom of research versus Economy: New Service Regulations for German University Professors

By  Ulrich Battis  - BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Prof. Dr. jur. Ulrich Battis über Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten der Expertenkommission zur Reform des Hochschullehrerdienstrechts. Ulrich Battis ist Mitglied dieser von der Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung Edelgard Bulmahn eingesetzten Kommision