Minority Retention Rates in Science Are Sore Spot for Most Universities: A few universities have demonstrated what it takes to help more minority students earn science degrees. But their efforts are…
- R. Koenig
- Education
- 2009
Vulture Research Soars as the Scavengers' Numbers Decline
- R. Koenig
- ArtScience
- 16 June 2006
A catastrophic die-off of vultures in South Asia and recent sharp declines in some populations in Africa have focused research on this often reviled but majestic bird.
Critical Time for African Rainforests
- R. Koenig
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 13 June 2008
As threats to the Congo Basin's vast forests grow, scientists race to sharpen assessments and stem destruction.
Wildlife Deaths Are a Grim Wake-Up Call in Eastern Europe
- R. Koenig
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 10 March 2000
Scientists across Europe are scrambling to come up with ways to prevent further cyanide releases from gold mines in the region and to identify and mitigate similar hot spots in the Danube River Basin.
U.S. higher education. Minority retention rates in science are sore spot for most universities.
- R. Koenig
- EducationScience
- 12 June 2009
U.S. Higher EducationAlthough minority students entering U.S. colleges are just as interested as their white peers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), they are only…
In South Africa, XDR TB and HIV Prove a Deadly Combination
- R. Koenig
- MedicineScience
- 15 February 2008
Since the 2005-2006 outbreak of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal Province, health experts have been grappling with how to detect and treat the disease.
Unleashing an army to repair alien-ravaged ecosystems.
- R. Koenig
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 31 July 2009
A pioneering program called Working for Water has restored ecosystems by taking aim at some 200 alien plant species that clog waterways, degrade farmland, and heighten wildfire threat in South Africa.
Science policy. Egypt plans a shakeup of research programs.
- R. Koenig
- MedicineScience
- 2007
International Groups Battle Cholera in Zimbabwe
- R. Koenig
- MedicineScience
- 13 February 2009
An outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe has crossed the country9s borders and is creating "an extraordinary public health crisis," outside experts say.
Few Mutations Divide Some Drug-Resistant TB Strains
- R. Koenig
- BiologyScience
- 9 November 2007
TUBERCULOSISThe first genome analysis of an extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis strain has found that only a small number of mutations distinguish it from a less drug-resistant strain and a…
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