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...center’s staff consists of Schwegman and a financial staffer.Yet Darnton’s connections in the library world and his prominence as a proponent of online media promise to be a boon for Harvard. Darnton is a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press, and he drew the presidents of the Bibliothèque Nationale of France, the New York Public Library, and the head of Oxford University’s library to a conference at Princeton last fall about “the Research Library in the New Information...
Venture capitalist Mark Carthy says that Harvard’s policy is “ridiculous”; professors often have to drop their research at the moment that private investors step in. Carthy is a general partner at Oxford Bioscience Partners, a firm in Boston that has supported several companies based on Harvard’s research...
...papers are fed into Turnitin.com a plagiarism-detection site that compares each submission with billions of Web pages, tens of thousands of journals and periodicals and a growing archive of some 40 million student papers. More than 7,000 educational institutions use the system, including Harvard and Oxford. But while Turnitin lets faculty level the playing field, many students--even the straight arrows--see its use as a breach of trust...
...field of cognitive science of religion has become one of the most popular interdisciplinary topics in recent years. There is now a cohort of researchers from the fields including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, natural sciences, and religion doing top-level research at institutions like Oxford and Cambridge, who engage in scientific study of the cultural, psychological, biological, and philosophical aspects of religion. There is deep engagement with both scientific method and religious traditions, and despite the fact that many of the scholars in the cognitive science of religion field differ widely in their worldviews, dialogue has been extremely fruitful. Drs. Scott...
...disease. “The amazing part of this collaboration is the fact that the three groups cross-validated their findings, allowing the full value of all three of the studies to emerge,” said Thomas E. Hughes, head of diabetes and metabolism research at Novartis. Oxford University’s Mark McCarthy, a leading investigator of the U.K.-group, also praised the joint effort, calling it “unprecedented and definitely productive.” “It’s been a great collaboration from the scientific and intellectual point of view...