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Forgotten Community Colleges?
To the Editor: Buskist’s & Irons’ review of employment advertisements in the APS Observer and APA Monitor (Observer, September 2006) contains major sampling error, namely their failure to include in their survey advertisements for teaching
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‘Bowernet’ An Intellectual Genealogy of Gordon Bower
Ask Gordon Bower about the first great influences in his life and he’s likely to name a couple of Lous — Lou Gehrig and Louis Armstrong. You can thank a high school teacher and the
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Capaldi Named Provost at Arizona State University
Former APS President Elizabeth Capaldi is the new Provost and Executive Vice President at Arizona State University. Capaldi was drawn to the university because “ASU is growing, as is Arizona, and it is exciting to
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Conflicts and Interests
This year is shaping up as unusually rancorous in the scientific establishment’s eternal grappling with conflict of interest. In some of the most august journals of research, the topic has aroused accusations, denials, sharp exchanges
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Presidential Column: Who’s Your Neighbor?
My family lives on a cul-de-sac. As I often say when directing people to my house, we are at 11:00; to our right (at 2:00) lives one neighboring family, and to our left (at 9:00
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Archival Publication: Another Brick in the Wall
Despite the profound changes in scientific publishing wrought by technology, many of us cling to the belief that the archival publication of primary journal articles remains the bedrock of our field. APS publications, and particularly
