Word: academia
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...lighting technology on a silicon platform could "drive volume economics and mass market," says Mario Paniccia, director of Intel Corp.'s photonics technology lab. Researchers in business and academia are scrambling to create such flexible solar cells because existing solid silicon solar panels are heavy and unwieldy. Flexible, or conformal, solar cells could wrap around surfaces and pack easily for transport. A solar-cell liquid could even be painted...
...academic year or during the summer.Law School student Daniel B. Vorhaus, co-president of the Ethics, Law and Biotechnology Society, said he views the creation of the center as an opportunity to “legitimize” an area of law that he said has been neglected in academia. Last summer, Vorhaus worked two jobs to pursue his interests in bioethics: one at a traditional law firm and the other as a research assistant for a bioethicist.“This is a really strong vote of confidence for this kind of career path,” he said.The...
...makes plans to take a break from academia, however, Ignatieff sees this opportunity not as a departure from, but rather an extension of his teachings...
...have spent my past three academic years growing ever more interested in the history of Africa. Last year saw a lengthy stay in Tanzania and a summer-long visit to Ghana. My Swahili is solid, and my French is ready to be improved. Things poised as they are, academia is not out of the question.But like many upperclassmen, a fair bit of existential anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here’s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society...
We’re the Bill Clinton of the college set: we’re powerful, and for every positive story about our contributions to academia or science, there’s one more stained dress. As with the coverage of the photogenic genius-cum-trainwreck Clinton, the coverage of Harvard seems star-struck—but when the New York Times specifically solicits Harvard’s female students for their thoughts on marriage, maybe the fascination has gone...