Opportunities for funded radiologic research are greater than ever, and the amount of federal funding coming to academic radiology departments is increasing. Even so, many medical school-based radiology departments have little or no research funding. Accordingly, a consensus panel was convened to discuss ways to enhance research productivity and broaden the base of research strength in as many ...

Circulated books classified according to academic subject areas and student majors were used to determine relative subject similarities in forty academic departments. -Multidimensional scaling was used to compute a best-fit solution of the similarities in three dimensions for undergraduate circulation, and two dimensions for graduates. Similarity, or "distances," between departments is shown in...

It has been over 30 years since the beginning of efforts to improve diversity in academia. We can identify four major stages: (1) early and continuing efforts to diversify the pipeline by increasing numbers of women and minorities getting advanced degrees, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); (2) requiring academic institutions to develop their own "affirmative act...