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Born on the other side of the border in New York City, McDonald grew up in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood in Manhattan. But when she was 16, she traveled to France for the first time, an experience that she says shaped the rest of her career...
Sebastián credits the position with saving his grad school career, but there are downsides. Tutor duties take time away from research. So do the sophomore advising coordinator, teaching fellow, and exam grader positions he holds to earn a little more. This week, he received an e-mail from Kirkland saying he and Mariana have gone over their meal quota and will have to cut back. And for a while this semester, the students across the wall from Mariana’s room were having particularly loud...
...respondents reported having advisers who were unsupportive of their family decisions. Just months before the Summers remarks, Wenc had helped found the Student-Parents Organization, which reaped the benefits of the new publicity. But it wasn’t enough to save her own graduate career. Just semesters later, after years of trying to juggle her career and her family, Wenc’s dreams of a Ph.D. were a thing of the past. “I just said, ‘forget it,’ I can?...
Albano worked as a professional political consultant in the 1980s, and once he turned to a career in the real estate and advertising industries, he continued his political activism as a volunteer on many campaigns...
...most damning criticism of Fryer came from psychologists like the University of Rochester's Edward Deci, who has spent his career studying motivation. Deci has found that money - like other tangible rewards - does not work very well to motivate people over the long term, particularly for tasks that involve creativity. In fact, there is a lot of evidence that rewards can have the perverse effect of making people perform worse...