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...return. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, private help has jumped from $6 million in 1979 to $18 million this year. At M.I.T. Exxon is financing an $8 million project on combustion research. Harvard Medical School has announced a $6 million grant from Du Pont for genetic research. Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh has signed a $5 million contract with Westinghouse to fund the Robotics Institute, granting Westinghouse first patent rights on any research findings. Dartmouth College receives $75,000 a year from DePuy, a medical manufacturer, to develop prosthetic hip replacements. Columbia University has hired a director of corporate...
...competitors will not get them. While many technological breakthroughs have resulted from purely theoretical research, corporations tend to be more interested in encouraging short-term solutions to specific problems or in developing products. Concedes Wilbert Ferguson, a Westinghouse engineering director, discussing his firm's arrangement with Carnegie-Mellon: "There may be an element of support for academic research, but we really are trying to get as much...
...chen Chen, 31, life in the U.S. was splendid. He had just signed a new three-year contract to teach statistics at Carnegie-Mellon University. He and his Taiwanese wife Su-jen, both certified "permanent residents," owned their Pittsburgh house and doted on their year-old son Eric. In May, as the school year ended, Chen and his family flew home to Taiwan for their first visit since he came to the U.S. in 1975. Six weeks into that sentimental journey, Wen-chen Chen was picked up for interrogation by Taiwanese security police and questioned for 13 hours about...
...mechanical overhaul" of Chase Hall, a B-School dorm, at a cost of $5.6 million--almost half of what is set aside for the entire undergraduate House system from the Harvard Campaign. The changes in Chase follow previous alteration projects in McCulloch Hall in 1978 ($3.5 million) and Mellon Hall in 1976 ($4 million). In sharp contrast to the hosing and money shortages felt by the College, the B-School will be reducing the number of beds in Chase from 155 to 127, filling the newly-made space with a private bath for each room...
...creation of the late John D. MacArthur, an eccentric who became a billionaire in the insurance business. With assets estimated at $862 million, the foundation is the nation's fourth largest, surpassing Rockefeller, Carnegie and Sloan, trailing only the Ford, Robert Wood Johnson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations. The rationale for the no-string fellowships is the argument that important breakthroughs in the past have been the work of lone geniuses devoid of grantsmanship. Said Foundation Director J. Roderick MacArthur, 60, John's son, in accepting the proposal: "My father believed in the individual as opposed...