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...Owen, who is Conant University Professor, it’s been a “lucky year”—the famed scholar of Chinese poetry was awarded a 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award by the Mellon Foundation...
This observation jibes neatly with imaging studies that look at live brain activity in autistic people. Studies using functional MRI show a lack of coordination among brain regions, says Marcel Just, director of Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging in Pittsburgh, Pa. Just has scanned dozens of 15- to 35-year-old autistic people with IQs in the normal range, giving them thinking tasks as he monitors their brain activity. "One thing you see," says Just, "is that [activity in] different areas is not going up and down at the same time. There's a lack of synchronization...
...marks an effort to “rebuild” the company’s bond division, and the new compliance position appears to be part of Erian’s bid to “reinvent” HMC. Marc Seidner, director of active core strategies at Standish Mellon Asset Management, will join HMC as vice president for domestic fixed income. The move comes after the departure of top bond managers Maurice Samuels and David R. Mittelman to Convexity Capital Management LP, leaving a vacuum in HMC’s bond divison. Seidner is the second executive to join...
...Cambridge Robotic Futbol Club (CRFC), the hometown favorites, will—according to club co-president Jeffrey K.L. Ma ’07—“create a big splash, and show everyone else we’re serious.” Expect big competition from Carnegie Mellon University, a club that’s been on the robot soccer circuit since 1997. Yet with the banning of “vertical dribblers”—whose skills are “just too good,” according to CRFC member Prabhas Pokharel...
...race-sensitive admissions procedures and large black campus communities, and lowered by science-heavy curricula. However, Harvard—which does not explicitly take race into account for admissions decisions and is about 9 percent black—has still maintained a high rate. The JBHE looked to Carnegie Mellon University—with its science-heavy curriculum and 65 percent black graduation rate—to support its claim that a school’s curriculum can affect graduation rates. The President and Vice President of the Black Students Association could not be reached for comment last night...