Alex FriedrichWith a reportedly mixed record on drug commercialization, the U is trying to turn more of its drug research into marketable products. According to the MedCityNews.com piece, it’s planning to spend $1 million a year on safety studies, and its philanthropic foundation wants to raise $50 million to support commercialization of the U’s various technologies. I have little Read more →
MPR News Intelligence on higher education
Archives for July 2010
Nationaal Archief via Flickr Rise and shine, Tommies Almost 200 more freshman than expected have chosen to enroll at St. Thomas this fall, and the upcoming surge has administrators scrambling. The largest freshman class in St. Thomas history (1,522) will change class sizes, faculty-student ratios and class registration, which might prompt the university to hire Read more →
Scoot Williams via Wikimedia Commons Better whip those graphics into shape In a recent Huffington Post piece, Florida Atlantic University newspaper adviser Michael Koretzky slams college newspaper Web sites, calling them “so damn boring” and the content mere “shovelware” poured into templates. That’s odd news to this former newspaper hack, who has read countless industry journal Read more →
Minneapolis is the 6th best U.S. city for those just out of college and looking for jobs, according to this year’s ranking by Bloomberg Businessweek. At #1 was Houston, followed by Washington, Dallas, Atlanta, and Austin, Texas. The profiles are in a slide show, but the full list also appears in Twin Cities Business. Biggest loser? Read more →
One of St. John’s medieval Spanish Bibles Scholars at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John’s University recently realized that the microfilm copies the library has of two early medieval Spanish Bibles are actually the only ones in existence. That’s big stuff, considering that the Bibles, Codex Complutensis I and Codex Complutensis II, were practically destroyed during the Spanish Civil War Read more →
1) Take that, Stanford: Our women golfers aren’t fools. The ones at Gustavus Adolphus and Concordia University had higher cumulative GPAs than their counterparts at both the elite California college and Northwestern. 2) No smoke here: South Central College has gone tobacco-free on both its Faribault and North Mankato campuses, making it the 11th campus to do so in Read more →
Parents who pay the tab for their children’s computers might keep this in mind: My ol’ PiPress colleague, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, has written how Macintosh computers are losing their underdog status at four Minnesota colleges: Winona State, St. Olaf, Macalester, St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict. The MacBook Pro Once the niche choice of the Read more →
The U of M’s Carlson School of Management has slipped from from #55 last year to #67 this year in Bloomberg Businessweek’s ranking of undergraduate business schools. The slippage caused the snarky local U blog, The Periodic Table, to crack the whip and say: The Morrill Hall Gang had better start taking care of business Read more →
Gustavus Adolphus has an appetite for the bizarre this summer. Right on the heels of the blooming of its stinking Corpse Flower comes news of a prank in which students of associate professor of chemistry Scott Bur returns from vacation to find his entire office covered in aluminum foil. And I mean everything. Items were even individually Read more →
This article in the Chronicle of Higher education brought back memories and frustrations over my 10 years spent overseas, both working and studying. As the article points out, too many students (including ones I’ve met) can’t really say what they get out of ther semester/summer/year spent abroad. They just say they’ve “done the Europe thing.” Read more →