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...Kahn began studying diabetes in 1970, when he started a fellowship at the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK). When Kahn began his research, it was known that insulin regulated blood sugar by binding to a specific receptor on cells. But Kahn’s lab was the first to discover the mechanism of this activation, which involves the addition of a phosphate molecule to the amino acid tyrosine...
...don’t know what I’m doing,” Philip Seymour Hoffman laments quietly to an optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is in the midst of an existential dilemma over the theater piece he’s fashioning with his prize money. Williams, his dimwitted lead actress-cum-love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From...
...disciplines,” added Gordon, now a professor at Yale Law School.Upon graduation, Crichton became a traveling fellow and visiting lecturer in anthropology at the University of Cambridge. In 1969, he obtained an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, after which he completed a post-doctoral fellowship study at the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies.To support himself through medical school, Crichton wrote medical thrillers under pseudonyms such as Jeffrey Hudson. But when his 1969 book “A Case of Need” won that year’s Edgar Award for Best Novel, Crichton?...
...sing,” Tuttle said. “As a woman in this industry, it is so important to have a sense of camaraderie with other female artists.” The weekend’s concert was a way of promoting this sense of fellowship and of encouraging women to work together, she said. “Having an all-woman line-up is really rare,” Tuttle said. “Usually women are competing for one spot in a line-up.” Tuttle’s performance was followed by Kelsey...
Postscript: I'm witnessing the MBA scene firsthand this year as a second-year MBA fellowship student at the Columbia Business School. Even as my classmates relish their classes and the study-hard, play-hard nature of school, some sound concerned when the subject turns to their job hunt. At the Harvard Business School, a second-year MBA candidate recently posted a blog entry poking fun at the euphemisms business school students use to explain why one internship or another hasn't yielded a full-time offer. What they say is "There wasn't a cultural fit," or "I wouldn...