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...individual grants at the NIH, and our policy is not to do so,” Casey said. “The area that this grant was awarded is an area that we are a world leader in. We hope that would have been borne out by the peer review process...
...peer institutions, including Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Duke, University of Chicago and NYU, all have programs that include gender and/or sexuality in their titles. Scholarship in women’s studies has in recent decades turned toward an increased focus on the ways in which identities are socially constructed. Theories that today deconstruct the role of gender, race, sexuality and class identity, employ similar approaches as those initially used to explore the role of women. This includes the recognition that gender regulates the behavior of both men and women, and that it is consequently difficult to study women...
Fitzsimmons also said it’s hard to compare the applications numbers for the years leading up to 1999 to now because times and peer institutions have changed...
...return to restrictive admissions policies puts Harvard and its peer institutions in violation of guidelines adopted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) in 2001. Fitzsimmons said that NACAC would be studying the issue further...
Just last month, 150 NIH-funded scientists found their peer-reviewed research facing a new sort of scrutiny. Because of political concerns over their work on HIV/AIDS and sexuality, they are now being asked to provide additional justification for their research. One fears that such political interventionism will have a chilling effect on further work in the field. As members of an academic community, we should condemn the Bush Administration’s actions. Let’s make sure that next Halloween, we get our scares elsewhere...