UNC-Chapel Hill endowment was $100 million when it agreed to divest $7.5 million from South Africa. Today the endowment is $10 billion, spread across the globe.
Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the closing plenary session, he posed to a “panel of scientific leaders” the question, “Who is a scientist?” The answers “ranged from very narrow (just people who are doing or planning research) all the way to very broad (every living human).”
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Hauled in front of Congress recently, Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp showed signs of being open to views other than his own, which may be a first for him.
Democrats accuse GOP of "setting a dangerous precedent that if Congress doesn't like what you publish you'll be hauled in" as a tool to "prove their conspiratorial narrative."