Paul Voosen
Staff Writer (former)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Paul Voosen was a Chronicle reporter. His stories have also appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, and Greenwire, with reprints in The New York Times.
Stories by this Author
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NewsIs It Time for Universities to Get Out of the Hospital Business?
The health-care industry is turning inside out, forcing some elite institutions to consider whether their once-lucrative medical centers are becoming liabilities. -
Research
The Oaxaca Incident
An American scholar. A Mexican village. The U.S. military. What could go wrong? -
The Chronicle Review
‘If America Wants to Kill Science, It’s on Its Way’
A conversation with the geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, author of the memoir Lab Girl, on women, research, and life in the lab. -
News
The Calculated Value of a President With a STEM Degree
For most of the scientists who are in charge of a growing number of universities, leadership is a continued form of experimentation. -
Research
The Subtle Ways Gender Gaps Persist in Science
Recent studies, many of them by early-career scientists, are teasing out a more nuanced story than the one in the headlines. -
News
How Staff Scientists, Long Invisible, Could Save Biomedicine
The National Institutes of Health turns toward the “invisible glue” of research universities to help with a glut of postdocs. -
Science
For Researchers, Risk Is a Vanishing Luxury
A basic mission of the American research university is eroding, with predictability prized over boldness at almost every level — hiring, promotion, publishing, and grant making. -
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News
Journal Publishers Rethink a Research Mainstay: Peer Review
Making the process open and giving academics more credit for doing reviews are two of the methods meant to fix what some call a broken system. -
The Ticker
Universities Are Falling Behind on Reproducibility Reform, Scientists Say
When it comes to ensuring that their faculty members produce rigorous, reproducible research, universities are not making the grade, according to a critique published on Tuesday in the journal Nature by a trio of scientists.
