According to the police, Dr. Xiao Chuanguo, a urologist from Wuhan, confessed to paying four men a total of $15,000 to assault Fang Xuanchang, a science writer, and Fang Shimin, a blogger whose Web site is dedicated to exposing academic and scientific fraud.
Fang Shimin, who writes under the name of Fang Zhouzi, runs a Web site, New Threads, whose mission is to expose academic fraud, a rampant problem in China.
Nor do they reflect the shame of recruiting violations and exposed academic fraud, or those players left high and dry by contract-jumping coaches, forever on the career make.
In addition to revealing the appalling disregard for elementary safety measures rampant in many academic laboratories, Sangji's tragedy highlights two other systemic flaws that expose academic lab workers to mortal risk.
The fevered build up to this month's university research audit has exposed academics to an atmosphere of competitiveness and bullying, according to a survey by the Guardian's higher education network.
The Nation gave a great example of investigative journalism when it exposed academics receiving undisclosed payments from Wall Street.
Although the university was unable to dismiss the tenured Petee — he is now a consultant for Auburn University at Montgomery — Gundlach said he was proud of exposing the academic fraud.
Republican and Democratic administrations have operated on the assumption that the national interest was well served by exposing Chinese academics to American values.
Medical students and practicing physicians, in comparison with the general population and that of other professions, are exposed to academic and professional stress and therefore are vulnerable to psychosocial health problems and certain specific dysfunctions that may compromise their physical, mental, and social health.
I certainly didn't know any physician scientists personally, nor was I exposed to academic environments in the tiny Minnesota town in which I grew up.
Both classroom technology and administrative software are at risk of being hacked, potentially exposing children's academic data and even behavioral and disciplinary information.
