Elite colleges including Brown University, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania say they have accepted a smaller percentage of applicants than ever before. Remarks from Dean of Admission Jim Miller are include in this wrap-up article.

An editorial about the state’s courting of Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceutical-manufacturing plant notes Brown University’s growing expertise in biotechnology

Economics Professor Glenn Loury participates in this roundtable discussion. Topics: Iran officials plan for large-scale uranium enrichment; Exxon reports record profits while gas prices continue to rise; and Rhode Island divests from investments linked to the government of Sudan. Other guests are Hofstra journalism professor ER Shipp and Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. To listen, go to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5338254

The Discovery Channel’s news site reports on the findings of a team of physicists, including Assistant Professor Jay Tang, that has identified nature’s stickiest substance. Tang discusses the findings, which could lead to new surgical glues.

Associate Professor of Medicine Andrew G. Bostom, M.D., offers this opinion piece about the European Union’s decision to review the language it uses to describe terrorists who claim to act in the name of Islam. (FrontPage Magazine is the online publication of The Center for the Study of Popular Culture.)

Political columnist M. Charles Bakst offers his observations about N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton’s speech at Brown University on April 8.