A $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will provide a substantial boost for research by Berkeley faculty in the arts and humanities.

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University today announced the launch of Kellogg Insight, a Web-based research digest that highlights Kellogg faculty research. The site is accessible at the following link: www.insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Larry Burns, vice president of research and development and strategic planning at General Motors, has received the ASM International 2007 Medal for the Advancement of Research.

As universities continue transforming scientific discoveries into potentially lucrative patents, many wonder how this might be transforming academic science itself. Some critics contend that commercial interests are changing university research from a publicly funded enterprise performed for the social good into one pursued for private purposes and monetary gain.

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are poised to add billions of dollars to the fiscal year 2008 research and development (R&D) budget, with much of the proposed new funding targeted for environmental, energy and biomedical initiatives, according to a new report by the R&D Budget and Policy Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Some of the Bay Area’s brightest high school and college science students will gather at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) to present the results of 9 weeks of scientific research.

Assessing the impact of basic science in terms of economic returns can be a futile and self-defeating exercise, according to economist Wolfgang Polt of the Joanneum Research Institute (Vienna).

Prudential Financial, the US insurance group, announced on Wednesday that it was going to shut down its small stock research and sales business, which some analysts called "a distraction" with little value. This closure will result in the loss of about 420 jobs. This will be the biggest business breakage recently occurred.