The Sunday March 16 'San Francisco Chronicle' has an extraordinary story about UCSF professor Dr. Ephraim P. Engleman, Director of the Rosalind...
To my knowledge, there are only two library schools in California, San Jose State's and UCLA's. That ensures that SJSU's School of Library and...
The NY Regents have just accredited another new in-house doctoral program offered by a very prestigious source -- The American Museum of...
This doesn't have very much to do with DL, but I found it kind of interesting. It's the world citation rankings in many different scientific...
See where our familiar English words originally came from and how their uses and meanings has changed over the centuries....
Here's something that I thought was absolutely mind-boggling, straight out of science-fiction. Stanford University's Applied physics research...
Here's something kind of interesting from the 'Chronicle of Higher Education'. http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/ They examined 375...
I loved Burt Rutan's little manned suborbital spaceship a few years ago. (He's currently busy building a bigger biz-jet sized version.) Now the...
I just stumbled upon this: http://www.ciriusonline.dk/Default.aspx?ID=3792 It will be interesting to see what impact, if any, this has on...
Who is Aaron B. Johnson? The only person out of 3,296 entrants in Baseball America's Bracket Challenge who picked Fresno State to make it to the...
I saw this list posted on another thread. Frankly, apart frm a couple of things like Britannica, I've never even heard of most of this stuff....
LONDON - Virgin Galactic, the British company created by entrepreneur Richard Branson to send tourists into space, and New Mexico announced an...
Here's something that I happened to stumble on (it was the stars!) and it blew my socks off! Besides being the first Washington state-approved...
The Association of Theological Schools has affiliates as well: http://216.151.81.21/about/affiliates.asp They describe affiliate status this...
I was reading Buddhadharma or Tricycle over coffee the other day at Borders, and came upon an announcement for a new institution called Maitripa...
I've just been watching the cable news and I have a bad feeling about this. Hurricane Katrina had been relatively modest, but it's rapidly...
Another of the 'top tier' CA-approved schools bites the dust. Following the path blazed by the Keck Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Soka...
Here's an interesting article from the 1909 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia that goes into some detail on the medieval origin of doctorates:...
Some good news. A Russian mini-submarine, ironically designed to rescue men from other stricken subs, had become entangled in old fishing nets...
I don't want to hijack Nosborne's law professor's thread, so I'm starting a new thread to discuss the most prestigious American non-RA schools....
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