Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US

19 May 2012, 6:22 pm

A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the United State on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.... Read More »

Ag-Bio Firms Increasingly Look to RNAi, microRNAs through Partnerships

19 May 2012, 8:33 am

Full-text access for premium subscribers only. Existing premium subscribers login here . New to GenomeWeb? Register quickly here . BioArray News editor Justin Petrone sat down with Shashikant Kulkarni, an associate professor at Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, to discuss chromo... Read More »

Southridge senior is named Gates Millennium Scholar, Pacific valedictorian is headed to Oxford: Your Washington County

19 May 2012, 8:08 am

Readers share news and opinions and preview events on public blogs for Washington County. Recent highlights include scholarship winners, student achievement from grade school to grad school, and opportunities to help Sherwood's Cat Adoption Team.... Read More »

Katie Couric To Speak At UVa Commencement

19 May 2012, 7:53 am

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Television journalist Katie Couric will be the University of Virginia's commencement speaker this weekend. Couric's address will follow the academic procession that begins at... Read More »

Pollsters Offer Insiders' Advice on Appraising the Races

19 May 2012, 5:22 am

ORLANDO, Fla. — With the two major-party presidential nominees this year all but certain, pollsters gathered in a hotel conference room here on the third day of the American Association for Public Opinion Research's annual symposium with a colorful yet pointed message for their peers, the news... Read More »

Repsol: Exploratory oil well off Cuba comes up dry

18 May 2012, 4:41 pm

An exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday, a disappointment for a cash-strapped nation hoping for an economic lifeline.... Read More »

People in the News: Marc Olesen, Leroy Hood, Paul Flicek, and Adam Siepel

18 May 2012, 1:03 pm

Full-text access for premium subscribers only. Existing premium subscribers login here . New to GenomeWeb? Register quickly here . BioArray News editor Justin Petrone sat down with Shashikant Kulkarni, an associate professor at Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, to discuss chromo... Read More »

U of Illinois plans for police institute closure

18 May 2012, 9:14 am

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois administrators have decided the Police Training Institute will close June 30 in spite of a push by Urbana's mayor to keep it open.... Read More »

Franciscan University drops student health insurance plan

18 May 2012, 8:47 am

WASHINGTON -- Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, is discontinuing its student health insurance plan in the upcoming school year in opposition to the Obama administration's mandate requiring most religious employers, including colleges, to provide no-cost contraceptive and sterilization... Read More »

Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsOhio Northern University recognized as Private University of ...

16 May 2012, 4:20 pm

ADA — The Washington Center (TWC) for Internships and Academic Programs, an organization that provides college students with the opportunity to work and learn in the nation's capital, has named Ohio Northern University as its Private University of the Year.... Read More »