Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, there are indications that recognition of the field is seeping through even Harvard's Ivy walls. The College's women's studies committee recently won a Mellon Grant to found a Gender Studies seminar featuring international guest scholars--which was so popular that only a handful of undergraduates could be accepted. Also, the Extension School will begin offering women's studies degrees. These small gains both indicate growing recognition of the field's legitimacy and significance and also highlight the College's weakness in this area...
...served as dean of the Divinity School for 11 years until 1979, left to become Bishop of Stockholm last fall at a time when Sweden's Evangelical Lutheran Church--one of the world's last remaining state-controlled churches--was experiencing a sharp drop in popularity Stendahl, who was Mellon Professor of Divinity at Harvard, holds what is considered the most visible church post in Sweden...
Undaunted by these obstacles, educators and high tech companies are spending huge sums to prove the skeptics wrong Control Data Corporation reputedly invested almost a billion dollars in the computerized college curriculum, PLATO. With assistance from major companies, Brown, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, and other institutions are each spending tens of millions of dollars in equipment and programming to "wire" their campuses. Against the backdrop of these developments. Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Science has launched a comprehensive review of how technology might be best put to use for research, administrative, and not, least educational purposes. It is high time...
When news of Zue's accomplishment reached speech scientists at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, it was greeted with great excitement. The researchers knew that if a human could read a spectrogram, then a computer could too. In 1979 they invited Zue to spend a couple of days in their Pittsburgh laboratories. "I had no idea what was up," says Zue. The invitation turned out to involve 48 hours of rigorous testing with hundreds of voice spectrograms. At one point, the Carnegie-Mellon team tried to trip up Zue with the phrase "A stitch in dime saves nine," expecting...
...region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such maneuvers as spraying skunk scent in the vaults of Mellon banks and disrupting worship services attended by executives. Roth's political preaching and his support of D.M.S. despite its tactics incensed many members of his church...