Word: ellison
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...some professors have told The Crimson that University officials have discussed conversations about precisely such plans with small groups of Faculty. Two senior professors said they attended a meeting last Thursday at which outgoing GSAS Dean Peter T. Ellison told a group of department chairs that he spoke with Summers about the matter several months ago—and that they had clashed when the president advocated giving other faculties the power to grant Ph.D. degrees...
...addition, one senior professor said that Ellison told the chairs that several months ago Summers also met with faculty at the Harvard Medical School (HMS) to discuss the merits of allowing the school to award its own Ph.D. degrees...
...conversation in midsentence, misplacing the car keys for the 10th time. So widespread is the belief that babies make women brainless that when a satirical website released a fake study showing parents lost IQ points when their first child was born, MSNBC picked it up. But Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter and mother of two, doesn't believe in the dumbed-down mom. In her new book, The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter (Basic Books; 279 pages), Ellison lays out the scientific evidence for a baby-boosted brain. She explained her thinking in an interview with TIME...
...Barbara Ellison, who lives in Glastonbury, which in 1999 became the second Connecticut town to pass the ordinance, says she doesn't allow her son Tim, 17, to drink, and she likes knowing that other parents can't undermine her decision with impunity. "Despite what they think, parents often can't control what goes on in their home once kids start drinking," she says. "If teens drink, they usually drink to excess. And you can ask for their keys, but they have a spare or give you a key that isn't even to their car." Ellison speaks from painful...
...dean will replace outgoing GSAS head Peter T. Ellison, who announced last month that he will step down at the end of this year...