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U.S. poised to repeat mistakes concerning nuclear wastes, researchers say

Much of the problem of dealing with high-level nuclear waste — from both defense wastes and spent fuel from commercial nuclear power — is political and social, yet the search to date for workable solutions has been dominated by technological remedies, says Thomas Leschine, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor of marine affairs.

34 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ doctoral programs rated highly on national assessment

By Elizabeth Lowry
Director of Marketing and Communications
The Graduate School


Fifteen of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s doctoral programs were very highly rated, and 19 programs were highly rated among their peers at major universities across the country in an assessment by the National Research Council, according to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Graduate School’s analysis of the rankings.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Nursing’s Betty Bekemeier named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar

Betty Bekemeier, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ assistant professor of nursing, has won a competitive grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study how research partnerships between public health leaders in government, academia and the non-profit sector can answer practice-based questions that affect public health policies.