Notice for Alexander Keynan

…as the first administrator of the institute.  In 1964 he was appointed to head the national committee for research and development, and three years after that was appointed to…

Malthus And Graduate Students: Checks On Burgeoning Ranks Of Ph.D.’s

JH Ausubel. The Scientist 10 (3): 11 1996

…United States, Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research, 1995), and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) complex releases two major assessments of American graduate education and research (Reshaping the Graduate…

Living in a Material World

A preprint is now available of Living in a Material World, an essay written by PHE researcher Iddo Wernick that will appear in the Winter 2014 issue of Issues in…

More Cockroach coverage

  Our citizen science cockroach project continues to attract attention, with PHE researcher Mark Stoeckle interviewed on local NBC TV newsNational Public Radio, and National Geographic online. Coverage also…

National Material Flows posted

Continuing to build our digital archive, we post the 1995 paper “National Materials Flows and the Environment”….

US National Committee

An Interview with Jesse about the origins and history of the Census of Marine Life appeared on pp. 6-7 of the December 2007 newsletter of the US National Committee for…