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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

Hospital mergers have allowed Thomas Jefferson U. to build a series of hubs for patients, says Stephen Klasko, president of the health-focused university. "We’re doubling down on the fact that health care is going to fundamentally disrupt, not just change."
News
Is It Time for Universities to Get Out of the Hospital Business?
By Paul Voosen May 31, 2016
The health-care industry is turning inside out, forcing some elite institutions to consider whether their once-lucrative medical centers are becoming liabilities.
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Research
The Oaxaca Incident
By Paul Voosen April 27, 2016
An American scholar. A Mexican village. The U.S. military. What could go wrong?
‘If America Wants to Kill Science, It’s on Its Way’ 1
The Chronicle Review
‘If America Wants to Kill Science, It’s on Its Way’
By Paul Voosen April 8, 2016
A conversation with the geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, author of the memoir Lab Girl, on women, research, and life in the lab.
Don’t start a presidency saying, "I’m so confident, we’re going to change the world," says James Wagner, of Emory U. "Let’s run the experiment."
News
The Calculated Value of a President With a STEM Degree
By Paul Voosen April 3, 2016
For most of the scientists who are in charge of a growing number of universities, leadership is a continued form of experimentation.
Research done by Cassidy Sugimoto, of Indiana U. at Bloomington, shows that women do more of the day-to-day labor of science while men are credited with more of the big-picture thinking.
Research
The Subtle Ways Gender Gaps Persist in Science
By Paul Voosen March 6, 2016
Recent studies, many of them by early-career scientists, are teasing out a more nuanced story than the one in the headlines.
Nick Patterson, a computational biologist at MIT, worked as a cryptographer in the U.K. and then predicting markets on Wall Street. He says staff scientists’ "career progression is not so clear."
News
How Staff Scientists, Long Invisible, Could Save Biomedicine
By Paul Voosen December 13, 2015
The National Institutes of Health turns toward the “invisible glue” of research universities to help with a glut of postdocs.
In her latest book, Roberta Ness, vice president for innovation at the U. of Texas School of Public Health, says a basic mission of the American research university is eroding, with predictability prized over boldness at almost every level.
Science
For Researchers, Risk Is a Vanishing Luxury
By Paul Voosen December 3, 2015
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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The Review
Bringing Up Genius
By Paul Voosen November 8, 2015
Is every healthy child a potential prodigy?
Ulrich Pöschl helped found an atmospheric-sciences journal that publishes papers, posts comments, and then settles on a final version of the work.
News
Journal Publishers Rethink a Research Mainstay: Peer Review
By Paul Voosen October 11, 2015
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
By Paul Voosen September 2, 2015
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.
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