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McDonald, Kim A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
The Soil Biotron at the University of Michigan is a unique underground laboratory designed for study of the forest ecosystem, including both soil invertebrates and plant life. It is used for observation and experimentation and allows study over a period of decades rather than seasons. (MSE)
Descriptors: Biology, Ecology, Higher Education, Laboratories
McDonald, Kim A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
Summerizes the controversy surrounding the claim by two University of Utah professors to have achieved cold fusion. Noted are the failure of university administrators to involve other campus scientists in review of the claim and premature establishment of an institute dedicated to the cold-fusion technology. (DB)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Physics, Research and Development, Scientific Enterprise
McDonald, Kim A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
Collision of a comet with Jupiter beginning July 16, 1994 will be observed by astronomers worldwide, with computerized information relayed to a center at the University of Maryland, financed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Science Foundation. Geologists and paleontologists also hope to learn more about earth's…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Computer Networks, Higher Education, Information Networks
