Recent studies of urban scaling show that important socioeconomic city characteristics such as wealth and innovation capacity exhibit a nonlinear, particularly a power law scaling with population size. These nonlinear effects are common to all cities, with similar power law exponents. These findings mean that the larger the city, the more disproportionally they are places of wealth and innovati...

Thank you for this invitation to share with you some thoughts on major issues facing Australian universities. Continuing development is very important for all staff, including for administrators who are crucial to much of universities’ successful operation. Joint staff development programs such as the one we are starting this morning managed by Universities Australia seem to me ideal in both po...

Research universities have made enormous contributions to the field of medicine and the treatment of human disease. Alone or in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies, academic researchers have added to the store of knowledge that has led to numerous life science breakthroughs. A new chapter may be opening for academic researchers, however, that could lead to a darker tale. 'The mouse that...

The teaching of statistics in the U.S. and Japanese universities is briefly reviewed. It is found that H. Hotelling's articles and subsequent relevant publications on the teaching of statistics have contributed to a considerable extent to the establishment of excellent departments of statistics in U.S. universities and colleges. Today the U.S. may be proud of many well-staffed and well-organize...

In the spring of 1996, I was the Rolf Sammet Guest Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in Germany. One afternoon, I accompanied one of the chemistry department s professors to a part of the city of Frankfurt called Sachsenhausen to enjoy Ebbelwoi, a German hard cider. As we sat in the sun, relaxing, the conversation turned to a comparison between life in Americ...

EUCIP (EUropean Certification of Informatics Professionals) is a pan-European qualification scheme for people entering the IT profession and for IT professionals wishing to assess their professional development. This paper presents the experiences of the Italian Universities in the framework of the EUCIP programme. We illustrate both the institutional perspective of the Universities and the per...

For the seventh time, I rank universities according to their contributions to the INFORMS practice literature and trace the evolution of the rankings of the top universities. Two universities are tied for the top ranking this time: the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. Erasmus University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Chile are now t...

The article investigates the relationship among top ten world universities (TTWU), top ten Asian universities (TTAU) and top ten Indian universities (TTIU) based on the exploratory study of weblink analysis. Inlinks and outlinks analysis try to explore the relationship among these universities. The findings suggest that although TTIU are generating 3.71 % outlinks to TTWU but receives only 0.67...