Word: academia
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Steele says that Novartis is planning to establish major ties with both Harvard and MIT. At the 100 Building, conference rooms with await seminars with academia. And although he declined to discuss specifics, Steele says that concrete plans are already underway for collaborative projects between Novartis and scientists...
Rather, the work is at its best when Power turns killing statistics from numbers into personal stories. Even readers outside the world of academia will find these stories compelling...
With his prestigious background in government and academia, Summers will have much to contribute as the task force considers the causes of the schism and makes recommendations for improving U.S.-European relations. It is encouraging to see a Harvard President descend from the ivory tower and engage highly pressing social issues as a public intellectual...
Meanwhile, in academia, women see a lack of representation; less than 15 percent of tenured professors are women, a number that worsens in the sciences. Other institutional issues—for example, Harvard is the only Ivy League university without a women’s center—cry out for feminist attention...
Until 1980, universities had to cut through significant amounts of red tape before being allowed to patent and sell discoveries made with the aid of federal funds. Under that system, very few inventions in academia ever made it into the mainstream...