Recent Web and print articles

  • Gerson Lehrman Group News Analysis. Moving Closer to a Biofuels Future. 28 August 2010. The annual U.S. energy audit by Lawrence Livermore National Lab shows Americans increased their use of renewable energy sources, which offers hope that Americans are becoming more aware of and comfortable with alternatives to fossil fuels. And recent developments in the science and business of biofuels should move that process along even further. Public Web version.
  • Gerson Lehrman Group News Analysis. A Challenging Way to Finance Innovation. 1 August 2010. More foundations, government agencies, and private companies are holding innovation challenges that offer rich purses to generate new ideas to solve tough problems from a wide range of sources. Public Web version.
  • Science Careers. Science Careers Editors' Best of 2009. Science Careers editors selected the articles they thought best described 2009, a year many scientists would just as soon forget. 24 December 2009
  • Science Careers. The Entrepreneurial Bug. Three academic scientists tell how they became afflicted by the drive to commercialize their science. 9 October 2009
  • Science Magazine. Newsmakers. Deaths: War Zone.
    Volume 323, Number 5913. page 445. 23 January 2009.
    (subscription required; local PDF copy)
    A 36-year-old anthropologist has become the third social scientist to be killed while working with the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Related story, Science Careers blog
  • Science Careers. Science Careers' Best of 2008. "No, You're Not an Impostor" and other hits from 2008, selected by Science Careers editors. 26 December 2008
  • Science Careers. Special Feature: Scientists as Financial Analysts. It may be a terrible time for the finance industry, but it might be a good time for researchers to plan for careers as financial analysts. 21 November 2008
  • Science Careers. A New GI Bill for Scientists. Can the proposed GI Bill do for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans what the original GI Bill did for World War II veterans? Representative Harry Mitchell, who sponsored the bill in Congress, and other experts discuss its potential impact. 6 June 2008.
  • Science Careers. Student-Veterans Come Marching Home: Their Return to Studies. A group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans tell about their new lives as science and engineering students and the impact of military service on their campus experiences. 6 June 2008
    Also featured in a Science Careers podcast [MP3].
  • Science Careers. Business Financing for Your Research. Properly managed, private-sector funding can complement more traditional sources of support for academic research. 14 March 2008
    Also appearing in Science Magazine: 14 March 2008, vol. 319, Issue 5869, p. 1549.
  • Helium.Com. Review of The New American Judaism by Arthur Blecher. Arthur Blecher's The New American Judaism may not be the official companion book for PBS's recent series on Jews in America, but it should be. 13 January 2008

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