Yes, it's time for another edition of “Funny You Should Ask,” the feature that encourages researchers and scholars to set scientific method on the shelf for a moment and take a more light-hearted approach. We present four University of Houston professors with a commonplace observation – last time, we wondered if breakfast is really the most important meal of the day – and … [Read more...] about Funny You Should Ask: It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity
Spring 2019 Magazine
Industry Funding: Closing the Gap for Women Researchers
The researchers had a hypothesis. Women faculty, they predicted, would be more successful than their male counterparts at earning private funding – from industry, from nonprofit groups, from charitable endowments. That was about relationships, after all, an area where the popular literaturesuggests women excel. The numbers told a different story. A review of faculty research … [Read more...] about Industry Funding: Closing the Gap for Women Researchers
Engaging Faculty in the Business of Research
The world of academic research is tough. As institutional research offices juggle regulatory and financial challenges within a continually strained system, they still have to lead their respective enterprises and serve their research communities. … [Read more...] about Engaging Faculty in the Business of Research
Three Things Are True
(1) We are the only species that cannot live without technology. (2) All new technology brings about dangerous revenge effects. (3) Humankind cannot live without creating new technology. … [Read more...] about Three Things Are True
The Valley of Death: How Universities Can Help Startups Survive
When looking out over the commercialization landscape, the vast space a product has to travel from discovery to the marketplace appears to be growing. … [Read more...] about The Valley of Death: How Universities Can Help Startups Survive
Beaker to Bedside: Physician-Scientists Bridge Academia and the Clinic
Physician-scientists are a group of specialized researchers at the intersection of medicine and technology. Earning both medical degrees and Ph.D.s, they offer a perspective beyond the scope of clinical practice. … [Read more...] about Beaker to Bedside: Physician-Scientists Bridge Academia and the Clinic