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Before joining UNMOVIC or the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is searching Iraq for nuclear weapons, the inspectors were, among other things, military officers, chemists, bacteriologists and photo interpreters. They come not only from military-research facilities but also from peacetime laboratories, private industry and academia. Those already selected range in age from...
...think it’s very important to have a president who sees from the student perspective what’s wrong with the UC,” Darst says. “Coming from within the realm of Harvard academia and social life, and a student group and involvement perspective, I’ve seen how little the UC has done and how much I think it could...
...want to aid in the formation of programs for women and minority groups who are interested in academia,” Smith says...
Which two professors in the physics department would make the best couple? Who is the worst teacher? If tossed from academia, which faculty member would most likely be fired in the “real” world? Last week physics students put aside problem sets, formulae and mathematica to ponder these and 12 other probing questions about Harvard’s physics department faculty on graduate student Jason R. Gallicchio’s website...
...nails the claustrophobic, poisonous atmosphere of academia, but the recounting of life in the bamboo tower quickly grows didactic and stale. The reader tires of it faster than Jian does. It doesn't help that Jian is an affecting character but too often a lifeless narrator; like a typical grad student, he often misses the greater point for the stubborn detail. He watches his future father-in-law ignited by a Lear-like madness and wonders obtusely, "Perhaps he should be treated by a psychiatrist; acupuncture or acupressure might help...