Word: peering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Carolivia Herron, assistant professor of comparative language and literature and Afro-American studies, awaits her own peer review and promotion decision, she says she applauds the Supreme Court's recent opinion...
...idea as a flaky New Age fad. Now the all- volunteer task force has completed its report, and the sneers are turning to cheers. Among the group's sensible recommendations: offering parenting classes to high school students, requiring prospective teachers to take courses in self-esteem, and establishing peer support groups for people on welfare. Most important, the report urges changes in the juvenile-justice system to "attach a reasonable sanction to every criminal act, no matter how minor...
...denied tenure to Rosalie Tung in 1985, the Chinese-American business professor decided to put up a fight. Charging discrimination on the basis of sex and race, Tung asked the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate. But the university turned down the agency's request to see the peer-review letters that contained evaluations of Tung's performance by her colleagues. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court bluntly told the university to hand over the documents. The decision was one of a quartet of major rulings from the high bench, which also touched on pornography, housing discrimination and criminal...
Many college administrators were critical of the ruling. Said David Markowitz of the American Council on Education: "There will be fewer people willing to take part in peer reviews. The court is asking people to submit themselves to possible punishment for being candid." But Tung, who now teaches at the University of Wisconsin, saw things differently. "If people make an objective evaluation of a candidate's work," she said, "they have nothing to fear...
...South Pole, meanwhile, astrophysicists were taking advantage of a heat wave -- the temperature had soared to -23 degrees C (-10 degrees F) -- to set up detectors that would peer at the faint microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang explosion, which theoretically started the universe. In the high altitudes atop the pole's ice cap, the detectors are well above the densest, murkiest layers of atmosphere and can peer through some of the dryest, clearest air on earth to help determine whether the original Big Bang was unique or was followed by smaller ones. A few hundred yards away...