And it has done it while maintaining high academic standards without major scandal.
Just as central banks in China, India, Russia and many other nations view gold as a monetary reserve protection against the falling dollar, major academic institutions are looking for new asset classes like precious metals and commodities to produce returns that can be put to work as a source of funds for a large portion of college operating expenses.
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En Li, a Shanghai-born biologist with a long track record of academic papers and research at major American institutions, will head Novartis's new research institute.
Around 250 guests -- including Senator Patrick Leahy, President Jahjaga of Kosovo, Prime Minister Simpson-Miller of Jamaica, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, academic leaders, CEOs of major companies, and representatives from civil society organizations -- attended the standing-room only event.
"Thus, while hangover is a common phenomenon among college drinkers, for most of them it occurs rarely enough that it is unlikely to have a major deleterious impact on academic performance, " Dr Slutske said.
For instance, MIT's Eric Lander founded Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) in 1993, but that didn't stop him from being a major force in the academic effort to map the human genome.
In my opinion, that is a major accomplishment for an accounting academic.
Elite universities offering MOOCs have a major financial incentive to limit academic credit only to registered, paying students and not those following along free online.
Idaho isn't alone: In major-college football's five lesser conferences, football teams have been docked scholarships for academic failures 47 times, compared with nine times in the six major conferences.
But I doubt he ever expected his own alma mater would be at the heart of a major NCAA investigation concerning improper benefits and academic fraud within the Tar Heel football program.
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Here different regulators were provided with different trial results, and astonishingly, even today, information is still being withheld from the Cochrane Library , the international non-profit academic collaboration conducting systematic reviews of the literature on all major treatment questions in medicine.
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This week, economists have been astonished to find that a famous academic paper often used to make the case for austerity cuts contains major errors.
One major problem facing the school system is the low level of academic training of many teachers.
This morning, two academic groups being funded by Merck to conduct clinical trials of vorapaxar announced major changes to studies of the drug.
For GZA, a major challenge is convincing skeptics for whom hip-hop and an academic subject like physics seem incompatible.
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Indeed, the academic impact has begun to compile a record of engagement on some of the major challenges of our times.
The latter was comprised of representatives of a number of British and American law enforcement organizations, politicians, representatives of major British, European and American print and electronic media, human rights activists, academic experts and concerned citizens.
In truth, the other thing pushing parents to send kids to preschool is the cold reality that kindergarten has become the new first grade, with parents pushing academic learning earlier with the fear that their kids will fall behind if they don't meet major milestones like reading well before what is considered normal.
Some of the topics discussed in the meeting were conflict transformation and intercultural dialogue studies in the Arab region, in what way is education a major tool for peace building and the international perspective on the integration of conflict transformation into the academic curriculum.
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