Gail Stirr (left) and Derrik Duchesneau, of the animal-care committee at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, check lab records during an inspection. (Photograph by Jeff Miller) — Read story

Chemical Society Defends Its Opposition to Open Access

Congress Pushes Penalties for Harming Lab Animals

Penn Sets $3.5-Billion Fund-Raising Campaign

Panel Urges Fewer Security Restrictions on University Research

State Digest

Panel Considers Shortage of Women on Science Faculties

Elections in the Bluegrass State

Lenders Repay Education Dept. $17.6-Million Collected in Error

TROTTING OUT THE PORK: Several Republican presidential candidates, but only one Democrat, have disclosed all of their earmark requests for this year.

CHEAP DATE: The new chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse has decided to keep his inauguration simple and inexpensive.

TAKING NEW AIM: Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State's attorney general, has issued 33 subpoenas to loan companies that he suspects used misleading marketing to students.

WHOSE BEST INTERESTS? Sallie Mae backs off from its recent demands to colleges for students' personal information.

HIRING IDEAS: Several higher-education leaders have testified before Congress on the continuing underrepresentation of women in tenured science professorships.

$17.6-MILLION LATER: A loan-servicing company reports that it has been inadvertently overbilling the U.S. Education Department for a decade.

NO AND NO: California's governor has vetoed bills intended to make college more affordable for many illegal immigrants and to curb executive-compensation packages for California State University administrators.

THE DEAL'S OFF: The University of California has decided to cancel an arrangement with Capella University in which it paid $500 per student transfer from California's Berkeley and Irvine campuses.