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MacWilliams, Bryon – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Scientific research has traditionally been left to professionals in Russia. Here, though, graduates and undergraduates work alongside established scientists from different fields, on modern equipment. Some even earn enough money to support themselves. The students have been given this chance under a joint program of the United States and Russia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, State Universities, Scientific Research, Demonstration Programs
MacWilliams, Bryon – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Describes economic and professional difficulties experienced by scientists in Russia today and reports on efforts to reverse these trends in places such as Akademgorodok, a community with 35 research institutes, academies of agriculture and medicine, and a state university. Reports such positive trends as declining numbers of scientists departing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Political Influences, Scientific Research