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...analogy is pretty good. In our search box, you can upload a list of genes, and with one click, the analysis is computed,” said Justin Lamb, the lead author of the Science paper and a senior scientist in the Broad Institute??s Cancer program. “The philosophy is also very much the same as a search engine like Google. Our program is free, and it is a tool that can allow scientists to generate information cheaply and fast...
...fails to convincingly support its central recommendation: that improved (and required) college civics courses are the best solution to the problem it has uncovered. The ISI offered a 60-question survey to 14,000 students at 50 colleges and universities. The questions, which were not publicly released on the Institute??s website, address four topics: American history, government, America’s role in the world, and its market economy. We are unconvinced, on the basis of its study, that the ISI has uncovered a true crisis. It is extremely difficult to determine what comprises a substantial understanding...
...score cheap political points,” Kennedy said in his speech. “Such policies are a far cry from the values our leaders embraced when the IOP was founded in 1966.” Kennedy also highlighted the importance of public service and commemorated the Institute??s success in engaging undergraduates in government during his talk. “We hoped that by engaging students in major policy issues and exposing you to the world of politics, the Institute would motivate you to see politics as it should be—and to work...
...comment. NEW FACES, NEW PLACESIf West does return, he’ll see an entirely new W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, of which he was an affiliate during his tenure at Harvard. The nearly 300 alumni who are slated to show up at the 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...
...here to support the long-term view,” Leading the new institute will be co-directors George M. Whitesides, the Flowers University professor, and David A. Weitz, the Mallinckrodt professor of physics and applied physics. Their main initial duties will be to set the institute??s research agenda and to get more faculty groups on board. The Kavli Foundation was founded in 2000 by Fred Kavli, a businessman turned philanthropist, in order to probe three main areas of science—astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. The money from the foundation is given with no strings attached...