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[ad_1] For marine ecologists, late-night work doesn’t just happen in the office. Squid come to the surface when it’s dark. To research them during my Ph.D., I worked on ships from sunset to sunrise, attracting squid with glow-in-the dark lures. After two years in grad school and many late nights catching and releasing Humboldt squid …

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[ad_1] Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Photo: Princeton University | Paper: American Economic Review American Economic Review this month retracted a paper that concluded that tax increases on French dividends also increased firms’ investment. The retraction note says the authors didn’t tell editors about changes they made between when the journal conditionally …

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[ad_1] Credit loss and lack of transparency around transfer policies and credit applicability can stymie a student’s journey to degree completion, prolonging graduation and increasing college costs. Often, students learn after transfer that many of the courses earned at one college are not accepted at their new institution, forcing them to repeat courses and limiting …

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[ad_1] More than three-quarters of students who entered college for the first time in fall 2021 continued their education (at their original institution or another college) in fall 2022, returning the so-called persistence rate to the average level seen before the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center said in a report today. The …

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[ad_1] Ruth J. Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Simmons is currently president emerita of three colleges: Smith College, Brown University and Prairie View A&M University. Simmons was …

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[ad_1] Today on the Academic Minute: Rachel Savage, assistant professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, examines how we might best care for an aging population. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Most Popular Stories Most Popular [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] As TW and I prepare in earnest for the big move, we’re running into something I noticed the last time we moved: subtraction comes before addition. Over the last eight years, we’ve built a world in New Jersey. We know which dry cleaner to use, where the grocery stores are, which pizza is good …

When moving, the loss comes before the gain Read More »