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...fight terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is courting strange bedfellows near you. The DHS will grant $200,000 to Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital to fund research on factors that cause airport security personnel to overlook dangerous items that appear on the scanner screen. This grant is a supplement to a $460,000 grant awarded earlier this month to the hospital’s Visual Attention Lab, headed by Jeremy M. Wolfe, a professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. The hospital has been working with DHS’s Transportation Security...
...proponent of water fluoridation and editor of a Colgate-Palmolive newsletter, should never have been put in charge of research on the potential link between fluoridation and bone cancer. And the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences shouldn’t have turned the ethics investigation of a major grant recipient and million dollar donor over to Harvard. All involved are clearly unable to cogently explain how Douglass did not suppress and misrepresent the Bassin data showing a “robust” link between exposure to fluoridated water and increased bone cancer rates in young boys. So much...
...survey—released yesterday by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, a project based at the GSE and supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation—queried 4,500 assistant professors from 51 colleges and universities, including Harvard...
...period will cut into the time the Council has to work before it becomes overwhelmed by the UC presidential election in December, but Council members were not concerned that a later start would impede the UC’s momentum. The UC planned ahead and funded the party and grant funds in advance last spring, providing funding for them from the start of school to the convening of the new Council, according to Haddock. Riley also thought that a UC filled with better-informed Council members would lead to a more efficient start. Given the emphasis on recruitment, elected members...
...loftier goal of the grant is to encourage up-and-coming scientists to think outside...