Ultimately, argues Barry Rabe of the University of Michigan, the states may serve (as so often in the past) as laboratories for subsequent federal policy.
Michael Froomkin, professor of law at the University of Miami, is not so sure.
Coursera has been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so.
The danger is that the new plans will mostly restrict the choices of youngsters who would prefer to work and pick up an education in the university of life, and are perfectly capable of doing so, while leaving the needier hard core untouched.
Chris Lowe, director of the university's Institute of Biotechnology (whose research has so far spawned four companies) applauds the government's aim of encouraging start-ups.
Harold Pollack, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, confirmed on Friday that so-called assault weapons targeted by the proposed ban account for a small fraction of murders in the United States.
The university will take control at the end of May so the Northcott can go ahead with its summer and winter programmes.
Prolonged success means increased revenue for the university, often to the tune of millions, so granting a head coach more control is seen as a small price to pay.
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For years, journalism education in the U.S. aspired towards the empirical certainties of social science, and it did so because the expansion of university education demanded that nontraditional subjects genuflect to the power of scientific enquiry.
Mr. EDWARDS: Well, I have to tell you, I--I'm now not in Washington anymore, and looking at it from the outside, and I'm now running a poverty center in North Carolina, at the University of North Carolina, so it's easy to see why people feel the way they do about Washington sometimes.
At one point I even had to forgo my senior season of baseball at the University of Akron in order to take the required classes at that time so that my graduation would not be pushed out one semester causing me to default on my loans.
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Still, at 25 he held the chair of Greek at Sydney University, and so became the youngest professor in what was then the British empire (and rather cross that Friedrich Nietzsche, whose philosophic works he admired, had become a professor at an even earlier age).
"Everybody here in Manchester are supporting me - the university, friends of Souvik, the Indian community, so hopefully we will be able to find Souvik quickly, " he said.
At the University of the Philippines, the psychology department has begun studying the social impact of having so many families separated for so long.
Although the technique has so far only been demonstrated for the flu and in the social milieu of a university, the researchers nevertheless think that it could help predict other infectious diseases and do so on a larger scale, such as in cities and across regions.
Dr Gerry McCann, a lecturer in sports medicine at the Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine at Glasgow University, said the list of banned substances was so comprehensive that it was highly unlikely that an athlete could take a legal substance, but register a positive result in a doping test.
Researchers from the University of Missouri postulated that the smoke from the fires was so thick and so deep in hue, so voluminous, that when, agonizingly slowly, it drifted over New England, it gave the illusion that the sun had died.
Dr Stephen Lowry, from the University of Kent, said the team had done well to publish so quickly.
Malcolm Rees, a lecturer in health economics from the University of Buckingham, said that the SARS illness, which has so far killed almost 80 people worldwide, is likely to turn into a global epidemic.
"It's easy to jump to the conclusion that it's exceptional because it's the first time we've recorded it, but we do need a baseline of how things have been in the past so we do need to be cautious, " said the University of Kansas researcher.
At about the same time, endocrinologist Jens Juul Holst of the University of Copenhagen figured out why GLP-1 dissolved so quickly in the body.
The iCub robot was already doing pretty well for itself in the creepiness department, but a group of researchers from the University of Plymouth are now working to take things one big step further, by teaching the so-called "baby robot" to talk (as opposed to teaching it baby talk).
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Thus far, we've really on a workforce of about 23, 000 here in -- at the university in Iowa City, we're looking at layoffs of about 130 from our hospitals and none so far from the university itself.
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So the University of Virginia study was able to compare the two approaches.
Australians who wanted to study their own literature at university, for instance, could not do so until 1962, when the University of Sydney set up the first full chair in Australian literature.
Many of my British colleagues through the years have told me that they're not used to having the kind of attention shown on so-called "university" sport as the U.S. places on college basketball.
David Fleischer, a political scientist at the University of Brasilia, calculates that 40-45% of the current legislators will not be returning, and so will need to be persuaded into backing unpopular measures.
He says it is unrealistic to expect the finished article from college or university-leavers, particularly when much of the training will be so specific to the company.
But Alta Charo, a professor of law and medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, said it was not so clear.
According to Gregory Gratson, a researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the printing process is quite benign, so living cells grown in culture should be able to survive it.
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