Tracking the Transition: What’s Coming?
Federal News Radio (Washington, D.C.) | August 27, 2008
Donald Kettl of the School of Arts and Sciences and Penn’s Fels Institute of Government discusses presidential agendas.

Playing Chicken With Countrywide Paper
Forbes | August 28, 2008
David Skeel of the Law School comments on Countrywide Financial’s outlook.

Cell Switch Is Step Toward Tissue Repair
Associated Press | August 28, 2008
John Gearhart of the School of Arts and Sciences discusses a new breakthrough in cellular research.

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Purdue, Citing Research Misconduct, Punishes Scientist
New York Times | August 27, 2008
An appeals committee at Purdue University has upheld findings of misconduct on the part of a professor who claims to have created energy-generating fusion in a tabletop experiment, the university announced on Wednesday.

‘Collision Course’ for Graduate Education
Inside Higher Ed | August 28, 2008
What’s wrong with graduate education these days? Is it what Ph.D. students are missing — teaching skills perhaps, or the ability to branch out beyond their area of specialization? Or is that too many students take too long to finish?

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