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...says. Today, Mukhopadhyay says he spends half his time trying to understand processes deep in the Earth’s interior and the other half understanding surface processes. The two, he says, are intimately connected, although perhaps not on a human time scale. In one recent research project, Mukhopadhyay used noble gas concentrations in ocean coral off the coast of Africa as a way of tracking how dust emission rates have changed in response to climate variation. Because the drying of the Northern African Sahel region has caused widespread famine in recent decades, Mukhopadhyay says his research may be useful...
...bigger question is, Why have colleges started posting all this stuff at no charge? "Schools have always wanted to have their own area where they could be among their peer institutions and help with the discovery of their content," says Obadiah Greenberg, who leads the project at YouTube...
...program wrought with office politics and concerns about preceptor salaries and job security. In the wake of Sommers’ departure, long-time Writing Program employee Thomas R. Jehn was named interim director of the Harvard College Writing Program—which includes the Expos program, the Harvard Writing Project, and the Writing Center—in August 2007 in anticipation of what the administration said would be a nationwide search to find a new program director.The search, which was not advertised until November 2008, ultimately led to the recent announcement that Jehn would stay on as the Writing Program?...
...want to give back and be a part of community service.” The team organized “Kick out Malaria Cup,” sponsored by the Swiss Consulate of Boston and Global Minimum, an international student organization co-founded by Sengeh that operates a malaria project with Sierra Leone by distributing mosquito nets to households. “Once we had some guys on our team who wanted to go to Sierra Leone to work on the malaria eradication program, we thought why not tie those two together,” Sengeh said...
...years, compared to 9.4 for married women without kids. "Women become highly focused when they have so many different things to do," says Woodward. "When I was an associate professor and had just had a baby, I knew when I had four hours to work on a project, I was really going to work on that project." (This theory of parenthood leading to more efficient multitasking also applies to fathers, who in the survey reported getting promoted in less time than childless, married...