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With the aid of colleagues from across the United States, the Harvard group recently published a research article in Science reporting their work on the impact of supersonic aircraft emissions on the ozone layer...
...openings in Asia's top research centers is keen. The Ph.D. he received from Indiana University wasn't good enough, jokes Huan Chang, now at Taiwan's Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences. "I had to go to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow to get myself coated in a layer of gold." There is a frontier spirit in these fast-growing intellectual boom-towns that attracts job seekers with a taste for adventure. Calcutta-born Uttam Surana, an ambitious young biologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, turned down an offer from Germany's venerable Max Planck Institute...
...Dean of the College would add another layer in the administration. Instead of just two deans beneath the Dean of the Faculty, many of the two deans' decision-making powers would be delegated to an intermediary dean between them and the Dean of the Faculty...
...this is why it's so important for Knowles to preserve the Present College dean structure. While the new Dean's own operating style will determine in part how closely he or she maintains contact with students, an additional layer of bureaucracy will surely result in a more isolated dean...
...College but one of a cadre of assistant deans. Behind the mundane terminology of bureaucratic restructuring lies an important question that cuts directly to the heart of this issue: do we want a dean who is accessible or a dean who is insulated from students by another layer of bureaucracy...