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A former post-doctoral fellow at the McGovern Medical School, part of the University of Texas (UT) Health Science Center, admitted to committing research misconduct by “knowingly and intentionally falsifying, fabricating, and plagiarizing data and text” in six papers and eight manuscripts, according to the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI). In its Feb. 4
Federal Register notice, ORI said Yibin Lin “falsely created fictitious author names and affiliations without listing himself as an author to disguise himself from being the offender, and submitted them for publication in
bioRxiv and
medRxiv, open access preprint repositories, by falsely assembling random paragraphs of text, tables, and figures from previous publications and manuscripts to improve his citation metrics.”
Lincoln, Neb. Scientists have long known that all living things require specific amounts of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous to survive and thrive it’s why we fertilize our yards and crops, for example. But the increasing frequency of phenomena such as harmful algal blooms, nitrate-contaminated water, and “dead zones” in oceans [.]
Credit American Indian Science and Engineering Society
The University of Wyoming Native American Program is starting a chapter of a STEM program that focuses on providing support to native students. The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), was founded in 1977 to support Native students and their involvement in STEM programs.
The Native American Resource Center wants to partner with community colleges in the state.
Reniette Tendore is the UW Native American Program student outreach coordinator, said she wants to reach Native students around the state, even if they had not thought about a career in STEM. I want representation from other community colleges. It s really important, said Tendore. And we know even up in Sheridan there has to be some Crow students or one or two. Their reservation is right there. So there has to be some Native students we are missing in the state of Wyoming so it would be awesome to get the word out.
UD Professor Frank Schroeder has traveled to some of the most remote locations on the planet to set up radio antennas to detect cosmic rays, which are natureâs highest-energy particles. At right, he is shown in Siberia with a research team from Germany and Russia prior to his UD career.
UD physicist named Sloan Research Fellow Article by Tracey Bryant Photos courtesy of Frank Schroeder | Photo illustration by David Barczak February 16, 2021
Frank Schroeder awarded prestigious fellowship
Frank G. Schroeder, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, has received the Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to researchers in the U.S. and Canada early in their careers.
February 3, 2021
The Wind River Startup Challenge, a regional entrepreneurship opportunity designed to distribute thousands of dollars to Native-owned startups, received significantly more applications from Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone entrepreneurs this year. Eight finalist teams will advance to the Final Pitch Day, currently scheduled for May.
“We are encouraged to see the increase in applications and the wide variety of the business concepts this year for the Wind River Startup Challenge, even in the midst of COVID-19,” says David Bohling, the director of IMPACT 307, located at the University of Wyoming. “With help from Central Wyoming College (CWC) and the Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC), we find it gratifying to assist these entrepreneurs in their efforts in trying to start or grow their businesses.”