May 02 Watch Senagalese Student Lands in Public Eye Over Pending Deportation Amadou Ly, a Senegalese 18-year-old living alone in New York City, now faces deportation after revealing his illegal immigrant status on his way to his high school's robotics competition. Continue watching
Dec 16 South Korean Stem Cell Scientist Requests Retraction By PBS News Hour A stem cell researcher, whose team claimed it was able to create 11 stem cell lines genetically matched to certain patients, asked that his work be withdrawn from the journal Science after allegations were made that the results were fabricated. Continue reading
Feb 22 Harvard President Summers' Remarks About Women in Science, Engineering By PBS News Hour Harvard President Lawrence Summers faced intense criticism for remarks he made about the shortage of women in the sciences and engineering at a Jan. 14 closed-door conference. Continue reading