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Wrangham, whose research links violent human behavior with that of chimpanzees through evolution, admits he has a markedly different approach to his fieldwork than Kinsey. He simply watches “animals that aren’t hiding for you” engage in sexual activity. Kinsey was far more actively involved in his subject matter, experimenting with several behaviors that could have been immensely detrimental to his study...
...then they “magically pay for everything once it’s approved,” according to Bergin. There are also concentration-wide field trips during move-in week that whisk students away to such distant locales as the Rocky Mountains. Bergin explains that EPS emphasizes fieldwork because it is a discipline where “you have to physically be there...
...Greek who roamed Western Europe, Mexico and the Dominican Republic during the 1960s recruiting foreign agents and collecting intelligence on the Soviets. Goss, 65, once told TIME that he had hoped to spend a career at the CIA, but a serious staph infection in 1970 forced him to quit fieldwork, and he left the agency for a new life in Florida that eventually led him to politics and the House of Representatives. Three decades later, the former secret agent is poised to return to the clandestine world, now that President George W. Bush has nominated Goss as director of Central...
...can’t blame the squad’s new head coach, Sarah Nelson ’94, for her occasional fieldwork. It’s a testament to the passion that drives her coaching which is so obvious to her players...
Almost every week for the past year, Yi, a microbiology associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, has traveled by rail up to Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control, who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the SARS coronavirus. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily banning...