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...push for the free distribution of scientific findings is the brainchild of acclaimed researcher at the Sloane-Kettering Institute Harold E. Varmus, who was also a candidate for the Harvard presidency. Helping to organize Varmus' effort are head of Harvard's Department of Cell Biology Marc W. Kirschner and Stanford Professor Patrick Brown...
...been working with new faculty and we've had some more success," Robert P. Kirschner, professor of astronomy and chair of the Science subcommittee, says...
...Adams House Pool's marble and brass primes the stage for a play concerned with decadence and lost time. It takes place entirely in an inn for drifters. The 17 characters range from a baron (M. Daniel Hughes '01) down to a girl of the streets (Jessica B. Kirschner '01). All of them have unique difficulties so that no single one predominates. Peppel (Jared M. Greene '03), the coolly effective driving force of the play, drops out entirely after the third act. None talk about where they come from or where they are going; any attempts to reconstruct a past...
Fathom is a for-profit online partnership of Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and other institutions, and will offer online classes taught by prominent academics. The site launches this fall. CEO Kirschner envisions a scenario in which older adults will use Fathom courses to indulge lifelong passions and reinvent themselves for new careers. "It's as if, all of a sudden, everybody lives on a college campus," she says. "So many retirement communities are built near college campuses for just this reason. Now anyone, anywhere will...
...Kirschner offers a hypothetical example of a retired bank executive who is transitioning to a position as a development officer at a local college. The retired executive "would be interested in a seminar that helps her keep tabs on the world of international finance, her life's career, and a course that helps her understand new trends in philanthropy, her new job," Kirschner says. "Or she might have always been interested in art history, and now she can take a course on art history with a world-renowned scholar at Columbia...