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...goal for the administrative budget,” Brandt said. In addition, instead of cutting back on program funding, the school plans to simply offer admission to fewer students—while keeping class size constant—in order to ensure that over-yields do not occur. “We realized that we would need to be very cautious with the size of the graduate school in the coming year,” Brandt said, adding that the admissions committee has decreased its accepted applicant pool 9 percent. After accepting 660 Ph.D. students last fall, GSAS will only...
...your list, but the DSM, as it's usually called, is one of the most important books in the world. It attempts to categorize, describe and give a code number to literally every problem that can occur in your mind, from schizophrenia to borderline personality disorder to something called mathematics disorder, which is essentially being so bad at math that it amounts to a mental problem...
...Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is serving as president of the American Physical Society this year.Her research focuses on three subjects: light scattering, in which photons are fired at an object of interest; surface physics, which studies phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases; and complex fluids that have properties of different phases.She has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, served on more than 80 scientific advisory committees, holds two patents, and was named one of the “50 Most Important Women in Science?...
While the overall number of such incidents in Germany has actually gone down very slightly over the past three decades, those that do occur attract much more public attention, especially school shootings. "These days the ritualization of the deed is often very pronounced - thus the mask and combat gear," Adler says. "For the perpetrator, the choice of weapon, for instance, is very important as a way to define his dangerousness." The bodies of the slain are still lying where they fell in the high school, waiting for the attention of crime scene staff and medical examiners. German politicians across...
...have to go through a lot of hoops in order to find the space to be able to do the work,” said Gordon C. Weir, a professor of medicine who works at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center, where he said stem cell research must occur in a specific room renovated by non-federal dollars. Under current law, stem cell researchers must be exceedingly careful to ensure that nothing funded by the NIH contributes in any way to embryonic stem cell research, forcing researchers to purchase duplicate sets of expensive equipment and laboratory supplies or create separate facilities...