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...Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...
Cheng, the associate English professor, said ethnic studies faces various hurdles. In many parts of academia, it is not considered serious scholarship...
These days, it's common knowledge in academia that grades aren't what they used to be. Throughout the Ivy League, the mean grade has steadily climbed over the past quarter century...
...when questioned about the professed peaceful nature of the rally, League spokesperson Thomas Downing said only that "our intention is to build as large a possible a demonstration in order to stop Operation Rescue....They're trying to use a cloak of academia to promote their terrorist views...
Unlike Roiphe and Wurtzel, Stone has taken a long, healthy break from Harvard since she graduated from Adams House in 1985. She steered clear of both the sheltered world of academia and of the Manhattan rat-race, sucking up to few trends and pandering to no one. She had no real tunnel vision of her career; she only knew that when she graduated from Harvard she wanted to live in Latin America and/or be involved with filmmaking. Neither of those followed directly from her academic work at Harvard: she concentrated in social studies and wrote her thesis on working women...