The dissertation proposal and the specialty exam serve different purposes and should be viewed as separate activities, even though often executed concurrently. The dissertation proposal marks the ...

Researchers at the University of Lübeck have shown that introducing a lottery before the peer-review process can make research funding fairer, more efficient, and less costly. The study, published in ...

When it comes to promotion and tenure, don’t just describe your research—explain and quantify its impact.

A longstanding push for urgent action on environmental toxins is landing in an unprecedented time in American politics.

The design of the article by itself is a great example of the use of negative space, images, and brief, clear text. Look at ...

Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

A former defense secretary and congressman, he held the nation’s No. 2 job under President George W. Bush and was an ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on roll calls from the week of Oct. 27-31. There were no roll calls in the Senate last week. FINANCIAL ...

As tidal stream energy scales up to national grid-scale significance, interactions between large tidal arrays may become ...

The untold stories of Britain’s black ballet dancers are centre stage in a touring exhibition culminating in Scarborough.

European nations are working with Ukraine on a 12-point proposal to end Russia’s war along current battle lines, pushing back against Vladimir Putin’s renewed demands to the US for Kyiv to surrender ...