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...yesterday. The award is given annually by the foundation to faculty in the sciences who haven’t yet achieved tenure but show promise in both their teaching and research. Hansel said the award was particularly welcome given current economic conditions, which have made it extremely difficult to obtain funding. Her research focuses on harnessing fungi’s ability to remove harmful substances produced by mining sites. In particular, Hansel said that many mining sites have toxic concentrations of manganese, and that fungi are able to transform the metal into an inert form. Hansel said she plans...
...grind. Their straightforward mission would be to find the truth. People would be invited to come forward and share their knowledge and experiences, not for purposes of constructing criminal indictments but to assemble the facts. If needed, such a process could involve subpoena powers and even the authority to obtain immunity from prosecution in order to get to the whole truth...
...annual applicants varies “widely,” applications were “much higher” this year.Pforzheimer House Allston-Burr Resident Dean Lisa Boes said the House received “hundreds of applicants” this year, though she said she has yet to obtain a concrete number.NOT JUST NUMBERSBut Boes said tutor selection can never be just a matter of numbers. Though the undergraduates, tutors, and House administrators active in tutor selection try to make diverse racial and sexual orientation a “number-one” consideration in the hiring process, Boes...
PRSE is a two-year program that allows students to simultaneously obtain a masters in religious studies and a middle or secondary school teaching license...
...without recourse to phantom prisons, extra-legal trials, or morally questionable extraordinary renditions. President Barack Obama has said that he will seek to shut Guantanamo, address detainee charges of kidnapping and torture, and return terror suspects to federal court systems, where convictions and stiff sentences may be difficult to obtain...