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...year old Mellon Fellowship program is designed to help junior faculty obtain tenure posts at their schools by giving them an opportunity to "demonstrate their scholarly potential," said University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, the program's director...
...part of this scholararly trend Harvard's Classics Department--the first department here to dedicate staff, time and foundation money to bring computers into the process of scholarship--is applying the technology in two widely different ways. The first is to aid classics scholars in their effort to obtain the breadth of knowledge necessary for their work. The second is to increase the availability of texts to those studying the classics. Both these developments may change the nature of the field...
...study published last week focused on one 81-member clan. Fourteen members had been diagnosed with manic depression and another five with other mental disorders. Thanks to unusual cooperation from the family, the researchers were able to obtain blood from each member and then isolate DNA from each sample. Using so-called restriction enzymes, they "cut" the DNA into segments. When they compared gene segments from manic depressives with those from normal family members, they found a discrepancy in a region of chromosome 11. Their conclusion: a gene or group of genes in or near this region confers a predisposition...
...addition, students on the meal plan can choose to transfer meal credits to one of the three campus snack bars that operate late into the night. Students that miss one of their meals can obtain a credit of $2.70 and computerized cards help insure that no one cheats the system...
Finally, during the two-week-long trip, Murphy will speak to and work with prominent Black political leaders such as Capetown Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Revered Allen Boesak in order to obtain the political support necessary for implementation of programs to aid Black South Africans...