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...feeling as if Peyton Manning and the Colts have gotten one by them as well. After spending $2.6 million for a precious 30 seconds of airtime, most companies fell flat in their effort to entertain, engage, and perhaps even entice the 90 million-plus Bowl viewers to buy their product. Researchers at UCLA 's Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center scanned the brains of 10 volunteers who viewed 33 of the long-awaited commercials that aired Sunday night, and were a bit surprised by the results...
...transistor. Using the diamond it created in its reactors as a "mother seed," Apollo Diamond can now grow wafers that are large enough and of a quality that would make them useful in electronic devices. "You need to make mother seeds that will allow you to control the end product," Linares says. "For semiconductor manufacturing, that means an extremely smooth and flat surface. For the first time, we've done that." Over the next 12 months Apollo plans to build up a generation of mother wafers at least an inch in length that can consistently beget more high-quality diamond...
...speedy efforts of the EPC are commendable, and their product is practical; the approved fields will reward and provide flexibility to students curious about a subject far removed from their own concentration. They are also an improvement for students who wish to pursue two somewhat-related fields, but who are not sufficiently interested in their intersection to write a joint thesis. To top it off, the EPC has allocated a generous amount of resources to the nascent program, ensuring that even in pursuit of these minor concentrations, students will be advised and assisted well...
...Faculty members will never be encouraged to focus on their pedagogy until their efforts translate into more than titles and pats on the back. Instead, we support the system endorsed by the Task Force’s report to base adjustments in pay scale—currently only the product of top-notch research—equally between research and teaching. The proposed grants for teaching are also a step in the right direction.Nothing in academia, however, is more coveted than career advancement. Harvard purports to factor teaching into tenure decisions and has added more documentation of teaching ability...
...resources, this is even more important,” she said. Democrats were quick to cast the potential Pell Grant increase as an early prize of their newfound control on Capitol Hill. “I definitely think that the fact that this is coming up now is a product of the Democratic control of Congress,” said Brigit M. Helgen ’08, president of the Harvard College Democrats. “It really does show how we are getting back to real issues that affect people’s lives.” The Harvard...