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US-China protocol ‘national interest’, Biden told

The PIE News

Since 1979, the US and China have had an agreement on science and technology cooperation. Scholars in the US are appealing to government to renew the United States-China Protocol on Scientific and Technological Cooperation or risk damaging research completed in the country.

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How to Increase Scientific Literacy

Inside Higher Ed

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. Then, alongside a small number of scientific skeptics, there are those who don’t consider themselves science people, and who feel utterly incapable of evaluating scientific claims. Americans once revered science and scientists.

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Mark Richards to step down as provost in summer 2023

UW Presidential Blog

He will retain his position as professor of Earth and Space Sciences in the College of the Environment and continue his research and teaching as a geophysicist. This program has increased the attraction of social sciences and humanities majors for new students at the UW.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

The task force listed challenged programs as those in classical studies, energy and society, French, geology, and journalism in the public interest. Students cannot be interested in and take courses that do not exist.” ” While small, Chinese studies made the cut.

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Higher ed needs more grit (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

This is why our geology, hydrology and atmospheric sciences researchers should lead—in collaboration with researchers at Utah State University—in finding solutions to the potentially catastrophic shrinking of the Great Salt Lake. The University of Utah must impact the lives of all 3.4 million Utahns for the better.

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Scientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune

The Guardian - Higher Education

Parts of the structure are younger than expected while an east wind blows the whole thing across the desert, researchers find They are impressive, mysterious structures that loom out of deserts on the Earth and are also found on Mars and on Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan.

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How U.S. Colleges and Universities are Responding to Declining Enrollments

WCET Frontiers

However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut. Several schools have slated the elimination of sociology, economics, political science, geography, mathematics, environmental studies, and geology. Joseph’s, and a private health sciences school, the University of the Sciences in 2022.