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...Institute’s open house today will find themselves in its year-old, three-floor, 10,000 square foot home at 104 Mt. Auburn St., greeted by Institute Director Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and the newly named Associate Director, Roland G. Fryer Jr. Fryer, fresh off his three-year term as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, is in his first year of teaching. The assistant professor of economics also heads the new course, Economics 1816, “Race in America.”As a scholar who uses mathematical...
...like the fact that I have excellent colleagues, but it also happens to be the best economics department in the world,” said Roland G. Fryer Jr., an assistant professor of economics. “We just care about doing good science. Everyone, regardless of gender, race, just wants to do quality work...
Last year, students hungering for a late-night fried-food fix could quench their cravings at the Quincy Grille. But this year, a damaged ventilation duct has forced the popular student-run social spot to turn off its fryers until next fall and halt operations this year until a less greasy menu can be devised. Contractors discovered the decay of the duct during summer renovations aimed at making Quincy the second handicapped-accessible house on campus, with Currier being the first. The vent is “broken, full of flammable grease, and just plain dangerous,” Quincy...
...Fighter In the twilight of the Atkins age, people are realizing that while carbs may still be an enemy, fat is no friend. Does that mean you have to ditch the deep fryer? Maybe not. Proteus Industries of Gloucester, Mass., has developed a technique to extract proteins from animal muscle, creating a coating for chicken nuggets, fish sticks and other foods that prevents excess oil from penetrating beyond the breading or batter. The food looks similar on the outside, but it's not greasy on the inside. That translates into real fat busting: the overall content in fish sticks...
...Fryer and Torelli used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which surveyed more than 90,000 junior-high and high-school students from 175 schools in 80 communities around the country. Students taking the survey were asked to define their own ethnicity, Fryer said. Rather than allow students to define their own social status, the authors created a “spectral popularity index” to measure, for each student, the number of same-race friends within his or her school. They then weighted each student’s popularity by the popularity of each friend...