Stanford to Give Research Grants to Junior Professors

Stanford University plans to give its assistant professors $5,000 each with only one string attached: They have to use the money to support their research.

Stanford's president, Gerhard Casper, said last month that every tenure-track junior faculty member in its undergraduate schools would receive the $5,000 grants.

"It is my strong belief that the synthesis of research and teaching is what makes

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