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Excerpted from blog post by Eric Kennedy, PhD student “As you move from undergraduate programs to grad school, you begin to learn that there’s more to science than meets the eye. Science isn’t the factoids in introductory textbooks, but rather…

by Heather Ross, HSD Student The White House’s announcement on Friday that it has Ebola “under control” is patently ridiculous. As we witnessed with the case in Dallas last week, and have been reminded by the failure of a properly…

By Clark A. Miller Even as leader after leader in New York exhorted each other last week to take action to address climate change, a steady drumbeat of news has also highlighted just how rapidly global energy systems are beginning…

By Heather M. Ross, HSD Student President Obama’s Ebola ethics dilemma is merely a headline — a critical case that illustrates a much broader problem with medical research and particularly vaccine development in the United States and worldwide. One of…

CSPO Professor of Practice Gregg Zachary’s cover story in IEEE Spectrum launches a new public crusade: Engineering needs more heroes. <img class="alignright wp-image-586 size-medium" src="http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-343×530.jpg" alt="Supergirl-illumistrations" width="343" height="530" srcset="http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-343×530.jpg 343w, http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1-207×320.jpg 207w, http://cspo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/supergirl-illumistrations1 collaboration tools for business.jpg 400w” sizes=”(max-width: 343px)…

By Elisabeth Graffy, Professor of Practice, CSPO and Lightworks Debates about federal carbon control regulations and a solar-energy-induced “death spiral” for electric utilities have been heating up, but along separate tracks. Those two debates have now effectively collided. In retrospect,…

By Heather M. Ross, HSD student Proposals for new legislation to fix the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are flying in Congress. Unfortunately, each is problematically simple and pretends that the VA system represents an isolated case of inadequate healthcare…

By Lee Seabrooke, HSD, PhD student The guidance provides useful operational issues to consider, such as the identification of “those studies for which IRB oversight is being transferred” and the establishment of “an effective date for transfer of oversight, including…