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...this doesn't strike you as hot gaming action, you're probably not a girl between eight and 13--which is to say, a member of Brenda Laurel's favorite demographic group. Laurel, a veteran of computer-game wars going back to Atari, has lately taken on the mystery of why there isn't better software for girls. The result, backed by the deep pockets of Interval Research, the high-tech think tank of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is a start-up called Purple Moon, whose debut CD-ROMs will be unveiled in two weeks at the annual Electronic...
...Count Laurel and her Purple Moon CEO Nancy Deyo among the pioneers. "If you're going to change how girls relate to science and computers, you need to do it by sixth grade," says Laurel, who has spent the past five years studying the play patterns of girls at the critical age she calls "too old for dolls, too young for cosmetics." Her research is based on conversations with more than a thousand girls, who (boys, take note) were interviewed with their best friends in attendance in order to "keep them honest...
...This is an honor that carries with it no tangible prize," said Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Engell '73, who is the president of the society's Alpha Iota chapter. "It is similar to...an achievement much like a laurel, so to replace it with something concrete would be to devalue...
Park is a leading scholar in the history of medieval and Renaissance science. Her works include Doctors and Medicine in Renaissance Florence and Wonders and the Order of Nature. "She can find a story in an old coin or engraving as well as in a traditional archive, says Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history and women's studies. Park will bring several new courses to Harvard in Renaissance history as well as modern science and medicine...
...find a story in an old coin or engraving as well as in a traditional archive," said Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history and Harvard's other professor of Women's Studies...