University teachers need to be researchers rather than priests of cargo cults.

Do successful tuberculosis vaccines need to be immunoregulatory rather than merely Th 1 - boosting ? Graham

Tuberculosis vaccine candidates are entering clinical studies in areas where BCG fails. This is a high risk strategy. We suggest that geographical variation in the efficacy of BCG is related to the presence in developing countries of a cross-reactive background Th2-like response, probably attributable to exposure of mother and infant to helminths and environmental mycobacteria. Such Th2-like ac...

Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

Why Universities Need Institutional Researchers More Than They Realize?

funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc. While I am deeply indebted to these foundations for their support, all of the viewpoints expressed in this paper are strictly my own. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the May 2004 meetings of the Association of American Universities Data Exchange

We Need Interactive Data Interpretation Rather Than Interactive Data Visualization

Five men to be ordained priests tomorrow at Sacred Heart

E d ito r’s Note: Last spring the U n i­ versity C u rricu lum Committee released a report o u tlin in g several m a jo r changes in Notre Dame’s core cu rricu lum . B u t f o r the m ost pa rt, the com m ittee le ft a lone the two-semester require­ m ent in n a tu ra l science. The issue is exam ined in the fo l lo w in g story, p a r t three o f a fo u r-p a r t se­ ries focu s ing on the com...