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Contrary to prevailing wisdom, keeping the outgoing CEO of a company on as board chair when a new CEO is hired provides very little reward potential and a whole lot of risk, according to research by Timothy Quigley, assistant professor of management.
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Seven different schools and departments join together to form the new Integrated Cancer Research Center.
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Arizona State University has been awarded a four-year contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a novel diagnostic technology called immunosignaturing.
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A $500,000 grant to Saint Louis University's Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics will fund the first ever remediation program to aid institutions when they discover researchers who have engaged in wrongdoing or unprofessional behavior.
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On Friday, June 15, Waters Corporation held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Mass Spectrometry Headquarters planned for completion in 2014.
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Lines in US registry will help studies on Huntington’s disease, hemophilia & more.
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Sealing cracks in roadways ensures structural integrity and extends the time between major repaving projects, but conventional manual crack sealing operations expose workers to dangerous traffic and cover a limited amount of roadway each day.
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A future weapon in the battle against obesity and diabetes could come in the form of an oil derived from the seeds of wild almond trees, according to researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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Sandia nanowire template permits flexible energy absorption.
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The updated site-specific risk assessment for the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility has a number of deficiencies and inadequately characterizes the risks associated with operating the facility, NRC says.
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Overturning two long-held misconceptions about oil production in algae, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory show that ramping up the microbes’ overall metabolism by feeding them more carbon increases oil production.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory’s newest facility, the Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building (RLUOB), is also its first to achieve both LEED status and LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
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