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...past, Martin said, there has been an attempt to divorce commercialization from academia that was really not feasible. Harvard, he said, has suffered from the policy that prohibited researchers from accepting confidential information...
After one question from the floor about what would prevent people in academia from "selling their body of knowledge to the highest bidder" the motion passed with only two people opposing...
...idea what we were getting ourselves into. On the phone a few weeks prior to the start of the Radcliffe Science Alliance, we nervously wondered how we had enlisted ourselves for an extra week of academia before beginning college in September. We pictured ourselves stranded amongst girl geniuses competing over how many digits of pi they could recite on command. But upon our arrival in Cambridge, we found, instead, 38 girls as nervous as ourselves, all unsure of the week, as well as the years, ahead of them...
...think it's obvious that women have been discriminated against in academia, so I have been surprised by colleagues at Ivy League institutions that it's not obvious to them as well," he says...
Academic initiatives have also been spearheaded. Starting tomorrow, the Harvard Trade Union Program will host a two-day conference with leaders from business, academia, non-governmental organizations and the student movement against sweatshops. The conference will examine ways of working together on the sweatshop dilemma...