A shift in population, money and political influence to America's 'sunbelt states' is helping to reshape its research universities. The first of two features looks at the far-reaching ambitions of Arizona State University. The second asks whether a rush to create extra medical schools could spread the region's resources too thinly.
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Macilwain, C. The Arizona experiment. Nature 446, 968–970 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446968a
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