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...increased support of new investigators, reduced administrative burden, and reaffirmation of the core principles of the review process as major challenges facing grant applicants. The committee solicited input from Harvard and other educational institutions. Provost Steven E. Hyman asked Professor of Healthcare Policy Barbara J. McNeil to organize feedback from Harvard about the grant process, according to Associate Provost for Science Kathleen M. Buckley. Hyman and McNeil did not return requests for an interview. Tabak said the comments raised concerns about the scoring system for awarding grants, which currently permits wide discrepancies between individual reviewers. He added that grant applications...
...diaries become popular, there exist sites whose express purpose is confession. The website PostSecret.com became well known earlier in the decade for publishing postcards from people confessing deep secrets. Yet PostSecret provides the option for the public confession to be anonymous—in other words, confessions with neither feedback nor consequences—and a major goal of the site is to foster online attention to artwork. The postcards featured are visually interesting, and they are not all weighty in their confessions (at least one hopes not). Although some of the postcards on the site address serious issues like...
...Nevertheless, buoyed by the positive feedback he has found on the Internet and his relative anonymity on the Harvard campus, Baek doesn’t regret his decision. His roommate since sophomore year, Daniel E. Disario ’08, says that the recent release of his single hasn’t really changed anything for Baek and his day to day life at Harvard. “He doesn’t seem like the diva-ish pop star type and he doesn’t want anything to change...We make fun of him from time to time...
...looking at rich, robust, inside information, it's going to be the U.K., the U.S., Australia. If you're looking at places where you can get spontaneous, rapid feedback, Brazil is an excellent place for that. There's a willingness to try stuff. And that's what makes it a little more interesting and exciting. So I can make good money and have...
...dopamine and the process of learning is still mostly a mystery, and researchers are hesitant to guess how this particular genotype really affects any given individual - or that having it would even be a bad thing. "Under certain circumstances it might be positive [for a person] to ignore negative feedback and to persevere," says Ullsperger. Soldiering on in the face of setbacks, after all, is a key ingredient for success. In the end, these new findings may well be one of many steps toward piecing together the puzzle of learning...