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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference in Los Alamos, N.M., two weeks ago, a group of scientists from both fields seemed to resolve the scientific schism, concluding that Pons and Fleischmann's research was flawed and that the heat they found was produced by a chemical reaction--not fusion...
When Dr. Shervert H. Frazier, who also served as director of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, resigned his post last fall after admitting that he had plagiarized 15 to 20 years ago, some professors said he had been judged too harshly...
...School's efforts to improve ethics instruction were facilitated two years ago by the well-publicized $30 million grant to the school, announced shortly after Wall Street's unprecedented insider trading scandal. Two-thirds of the funds were given by 1949 Harvard MBA John S.R. Shad, now Chair of the Board of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, Inc., who chaired the Securities and Exchange Commission at the time of his gift...
...fact, Verba, a top contender for dean of the Faculty when Spence was appointed five years ago keeps adding administrative posts to his resume. And many of his colleagues say Verba's successes result because he has the connections and the consensus-building skills necessary to push measures through the tangle of Harvard's decentralized bureaucracy...
Wilson: Quite a long time ago actually. In part because I had the opportunity to work with two very distinguished gentlemen. They invited me to join them. I decided that the opportunity for professional growth was better there than I thought it would be doing what I was doing so I took a deep breath and left. And I'm very glad I did. I missed teaching, but I used to construct opportunities for teaching along...