The university, which with 74, 000 students currently tops Ohio State in their perennial jockeying for the largest university in the country, is starting a data scientist program, a master of science in business analytics (MS-BA) program in the fall.

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In contrast to Davy, with his charisma and flair, Faraday was a gentle, soft-spoken man whose lectures always put science, rather than the scientist, at centre stage.

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Related work, by James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California at Davis, and Sangick Jeon, a political-science student at the same place, shows how Supreme Court jurisprudence has developed over time.

ECONOMIST: Statistical modelling

Rover mission managers named the outcrop as a tribute to Mars scientist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), who served as a mission team member and taught planetary science at Arizona State University.

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Greene, an MIT-trained engineer and computer scientist, founded VMware in 1998 with her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, a computer science professor at Stanford University, and three engineers.

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The social scientist Dr Joe Smith, co-author of the Open University's climate change textbook, thinks the way climate science is conducted should be reappraised.

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