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Honorary doctor of science degrees will also be given to AIDS researcher Anthony S. Fauci, anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ’68, and MIT Bioengineering Professor Robert Langer...
Klaus' track record shows that he is capable of fighting his crusades to the bitter end, to which Petr Langer's story bears testimony. In 2005, Klaus, who as president installs all of the country's judges, refused to appoint 32 judges, including Langer, saying they were too young. But Klaus' decision at the time had no ground in legislation and Langer, now 31, sued the head of state. The courts have since ruled in Langer's favor, but the president, who can't be punished for anything other than treason, has so far refused to install...
...Hopefully there will be a lot of applications for this when patients have pain from either operations or a chronic condition,” said Robert S. Langer, one of the authors and a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. “This could possibly lead to the first long acting nerve block, which is very exciting...
...relatively small. Banaji also noted that because the data was collected online, it inherently “underestimates the poor, those who are not computer literate, and perhaps even conservatives.” Nonetheless, the research presents fascinating questions for the academic world. Harvard Psychology Professor Ellen J. Langer called the work “fabulously important.” She added, “I think that our implicit biases can affect virtually all that we do. The importance of the work is pervasive...
...since its inception in 1994, including consulting on major healthcare projects like the Dubai Healthcare City. Though Partners and Harvard had originally expected to finalize the deal to close by mid-March, intensive legal vetting, which took longer than anticipated, delayed the deal by a month, Partners spokeswoman Petra Langer said. Over the past few years, officials in Mass. Hall and the office of Provost Steven E. Hyman have expressed concern that HMI’s activities no longer fully reflect the Medical School’s core missions of education and research, according to a Crimson report in February...