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A shift in population, money and political influence to America's 'sunbelt states' is helping to reshape its research universities.

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The first of two features in Nature looks at the far-reaching ambitions of Arizona State University.
US education: the Arizona experiment

The second asks whether a rush to create extra medical schools could spread the region's resources too thinly.
US higher education: Medicinal properties

Posted by Nicola Jones on April 27, 2007 03:30 PM |

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I like Crow's ideas, especially the idea of interdisciplinary research centres. Nowadays, many problems are beyond a particular discipline.

Posted by: Andy, school teacher | August 30, 2007 01:19 PM

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