a de-emphasis on experimental designs (emphasized by the empiricist tradition) with increasing emphasis on collaborative, participative techniques , which are now advocated by the post-empiricist, New Paradigm research

a new device that promises to render obsolete a standard device used in virtually every high school, industrial and university chemistry laboratory in the world

a new soybean developed by the soybean biotechnology team at the University of Nebraska

an experiment that Wheeler, Fink and collaborators at Boston University and Israel's Tel Aviv University published earlier this year on Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast)

a proposed merger of the Stanford Medical complex and the University of California - San Francisco Medical complex

a small Program Development award to the University of Maryland Department of Anthropology to study how coastal communities perceive certain key issues, including poultry waste and other forms of "pollution

a study done by Dolf Zillman of the University of Indiana and Jennings Bryant of the University of Houston