Word: collaborationism
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If winning Best Picture at last year’s Academy Awards for “No Country for Old Men” made Joel and Ethan Coen anxious about producing a worthy follow-up, you wouldn’t know it. Their latest effort, “Burn After...
A fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consciousness Project announced their first major undertaking: a 3-year exploration of the...
Korn will focus on developing and standardizing policies regarding scientific research across the University’s schools in an effort “to ease practical impediments to interdisciplinary collaboration,” once he assumes the position Nov. 15, according to yesterday’s announcement.
Interdisciplinary collaboration has become a buzzword of central administrators in recent years because of the notion that the traditional autonomy of Harvard’s schools has hindered growth in interdisciplinary fields such as bioengineering and nanotechnology.
The MMRF made sure it got the most from its grant dollars by adopting an enforced-collaboration model in 2004, linking work at four cancer centers into a consortium managed by PricewaterhouseCoopers and providing them all with patients, tissue samples and a set of targets and goals. "The odds of...