The number of high level MOOCs produced by top universities can contribute to an increasing flexibility in academia but we seem somewhat hesitant in offering them to our students. When Wageningen university decided to integrate its own MOOCs in the electives for the campus students, we discovered that most obstacles were caused by academic beliefs and systems, anchored in our face to face educa...

Concurrieron a la ceremonia diversas personalidades en representación de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, la Academia Nacional de Medicina, la Academia Peruana de Salud, la Academia Peruana de Cirugía, la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos y la Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; así también, editores de revistas médico–científicas, miembros del Consejo Consultivo de la Revista, person...

Lifelong employment commitments are a relatively uncommon employment contract. We …nd that three factors can explain their existence in academia – (i) non-contractibility of output, (ii) discipline-speci…c investment by a faculty member that enhances the chance of high output within the profession but that also signi…cantly diminishes the faculty member’s outside-occupation alternatives and (ii...

One of the goals of the recent workshop, “An Eye on Glaucoma: New Opportunities for Treatment,” was to highlight areas of glaucoma research that, with appropriate funding, are ripe for major advancement for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Another goal was the exploration of collaborative partnership and the process for facilitating translation of these areas, not just for glaucoma but for...

Polymer blending is a cost-effective way to control the properties of soft materials, but propensity for blends macrophase separate motivates development efficient compatibilization strategies. Across this broad area, particularly important polysiloxanes, which exhibit strong repulsive interactions with most organic polymers. This review analyzes state-of-the-art polysiloxane strategies silicon...

After the Nuclear disaster has ouccured in Fukushima on March 2011, the demand for renewable energy is increasing (cf. [Tag11b]). As a consequence of this event, Basel-City has decided to force owners of a house to install a self-financed solar collector if the house has ideal conditions for installing such a plant (cf. [Tag11a]). But can Solar power meet the expectations? There are organic and...

Academia-industry relationship is not like that of technology donator-acceptor, but is of interactive and collaborative nature, acknowledging and ensuring mutual respect for each other’s role and contributions with an eye to attaining the true purpose of such relationships, namely, bringing about research-outcome synergy. Indeed, academia-industry interactions are a system that requires active ...