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Chemistry World January 6, 2015 Rebecca Trager	New research productivity metric unveiled A team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City has unveiled a new way of evaluating the research output of academics using easily obtained data.
Chemistry World December 23, 2014 Matthew Gunther	Home secretary's student visa plan draws ire of science community The UK home secretary Theresa May plans to back a proposal that would force foreign graduates to leave the country as soon as they have finished studying.
Chemistry World December 23, 2014 Rebecca Trager	US research agencies finally learn their fate US science agencies have finally received their 2015 budgets, more than two months after the start of the fiscal year, and the numbers drew a mixed response from science groups and the research lobby.
Chemistry World December 19, 2014 Mark Peplow	A bad business The university-as-business model has been embraced because of its potential benefits. But there is a growing feeling that the relentless pursuit of targets is at odds with scientific research and the academic ethos.
Chemistry World December 18, 2014	UK science strategy leaves many questions unanswered The government has published its long awaited science and innovation strategy, but many of the questions asked by the science community won't be answered until the next spending review.
Chemistry World December 17, 2014	US National Academies urges postdoctoral reforms The US National Academies is urging significant changes to improve the country's postdoctoral training system. A panel concluded that postdoctoral researchers should spend more time on training and mentoring, and less time performing research in the lab.
Chemistry World December 15, 2014 Maria Burke	Can research quality be predicted by metrics? In terms of funding and reputation, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise is a vital event in the academic calendar. Now a team of researchers has made predictions about the results of the latest assessment using citation-based metrics, rather than peer review.
Chemistry World December 11, 2014	First science envoys announced for the US Several prominent scientists will serve as the US's new science envoys, developing scientific partnerships and cooperation between the US and other nations.
Chemistry World November 18, 2014	Science ink: tattoos of the science obsessed After collecting submissions to his online blog and posting tattoo after tattoo, along with a short post about the person and their body art, Zimmer has now turned his archive into a book.
Chemistry World December 5, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Physicist turned politician to head AAAS Retiring US congressman Rush Holt, who happens to have a physics PhD, prepares to become the next chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Funding for government science agencies is on his radar screen.
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