| |Wednesday, Nov. 04, 2009
Educating students shouldn’t take a back seat to research
The dueling news releases emanating these days from the Tier One aspirers look impressive, daunting even:
A University of Texas at Arlington professor got a $281,547 four-year National Science Foundation grant for a research project called "NanoDomain Structure and Multifunctional Properties of Polymer Derived Ceramics." Read more
| |Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009
Some pharmaceutical companies manufacture their own praise
The pharmaceutical industry is attempting to deflect accusations about what many see as its role in the corruption of science.
The trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), which also represents biotechnology companies, issued guidelines in late September targeting some of the industry’s more reprehensible pseudo-scientific practices. Read more
| |Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009
Heroic officer says policewoman at Fort Hood 'erased a lot of prejudice'
Texas’ first modern-day Latino hero emerged on a bloody weekday in the summer of ’66.
Austin police officer Ray Martinez kicked open a door atop the University of Texas Tower in Austin. Then he and fellow officers ended the sniper spree of Charles Whitman. Read more
| |Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009
Seeking sound arguments and no exclamation points. Please!
Write a 600-word column with strong opinion on a local issue.
How hard can it be? Read more
| |Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009
Education agency head shouldn’t match muscles with the Texas Legislature
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott’s mouth might have been moving faster than his mind Tuesday in a talk to the Greater Austin Area Chamber of Commerce.
Scott said he is "lifting the cap" on the number of open-enrollment charter schools authorized to operate in Texas. He wants to hand out more charters than the cap allows. Read more
| Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009
Grand Prairie man is a victim of flawed Texas Lottery system
When the Texas Lottery Commission last summer announced Pankaj Joshi of Euless as the state’s newest millionaire, the formal press release noted:
"Joshi requested minimal publicity." Read more
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Former Cliburn head to play role in reviving once-prestigious Tchaikovsky competition
Just a few days before the April telephone call, Richard Rodzinski had read a lengthy profile of famed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev in The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
