Word: bios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power plant or disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste be examined by the legislature to insure that it meets certain standards, and then be approved by a majority of voters at a statewide election. The law would exempt storage or disposal facilities for wastes generated by medical or bio-research, as well as facilities that had received all needed government approvals poor to August...
...called "The Biological Basis of Behavior." It started out with 49 students in 1979 and currently has over 170, making it the third largest major in the school. Brown University also has a Neuroscience major (incorporating everything from neurobiology to artificial intelligence), but that is in addition to their Bio-Med and Human Biology majors which also encourage the students to pursue neuroscience research within the Biology and Psychology Departments. Northwestern has a "Neuroscience Program" designed for students to major in the field (if accepted) or to focus their existing Psychology or biology majors with seminars, research...
Glaeser cities Edward Pinhole associate professor of Bio-chemistry at Berkeley as an example of someone drawn away by outside industry. Penhoet recently asked for a reduction of his position at Berkeley to adjunct professor so that he could spend more time with the biotechnological company he had just founded. Penhoet will lose his tenure and have his salary cut, but he says he wants to decrease his involvement on campus to "span the two worlds." It is not possible to surround a university with a most," he says, adding that interaction between universities and industry is vital...
...when high-paying jobs in scientific industry--particularly in the rapidly expanding field of bio-engineering--are increasingly tempting alternatives for academics in the sciences. Harvard's old-fashioned approach to compensating its professors is growing rare. Many universities are unabashed about letting the free market dictate their salary structures, paying the highest salaries to the most sought-after professors--typically the scientists with lucrative industry offers. "You couldn't possibly have a standard salary scale from anthropology to physics," says Dzidra Knecht, the executive for Boston University's College of Liberal Arts. "Salary scales differ in the outside world...
Okay, you don't have to take Wilber's word for it. But as more "serious" physicists like Wheeler and Capra sound like Zen Masters, and more and more gurus get wired up to bio-feedback machines, and as the rational West more and more confirms the metaphysics of the intuitive East, someone you trust is bound to confirm a great deal of Wilber's work. Sure, there are a lot of fakes who take advantage of the "Gee-Whiz" aspects of the field. But the west is going to have to accept the study of levels of consciousness...