The Chronicle of Higher Education
POINT OF VIEW

So Many Labs, So Little Money

Research universities across America are building new laboratories on an unprecedented scale. The new buildings should make possible many important contributions to science, but the construction boom involves serious, often overlooked risks for academe. A bubble is swelling, and the similarities with dot-coms and the real-estate...

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