Word: provenance
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jaeger, then, a patient respect for the administration isn’t just a flavor-of-the-month strategy: it’s a proven method, with the weight of decades behind it. It’s the reason why HUCTW has survived and grown to the size it has: approximately 4,800 strong, with staffers hailing from every niche of the University. It is, in short, one of the core missions of the union. “There are two things we care a lot about: one is to be strong advocates for the interest of the staff...
...newly created role of EVP, Forst was responsible for managing Harvard’s finance, administration, and human resources offices—all of which previously reported directly to the President. And Forst—as well as his financial expertise—has proven invaluable to Faust over the past year, as he accompanies her to meetings with deans at the various schools and leads difficult but necessary conversations about Harvard’s financial state...
...repeatedly devastated by hurricanes, Losos has produced some of the only empirical scientific evidence documenting evolution.“Darwin got one thing particularly wrong,” Losos said. “He said that evolution had to occur very slowly.”In fact, Losos has proven that evolution can occur very rapidly and that lizards will adapt to different environments at observable speeds. Thus, according to his research, evolutionary biology can be an experimental science.Losos has published about 125 scientific articles—over a dozen in just the journals Nature and Science?...
...believe that large cohort studies are a proven design that will serve African public health, and could also yield information relevant to the chronic disease epidemic in the US. The bold African Cohort Initiative aspires to fill this knowledge gap, and seeks equally visionary funders to bring studies that have enormously benefited wealthy countries to Africa. The time for action is now, before the problem escalates, so that results can guide successful prevention programs...
...trans people, the markers of identity can be extremely multifaceted. One friend transitioned from female to male in the past year, seemingly in real time on Facebook: Lucy became Andy and it said so right under his picture. I talked to Andy and he told me that Facebook had proven to be a valuable tool. "I just came from a courthouse where they practically want you to undress to be approved for official gender reassignment," he said. "But on Facebook, I could do it myself and under my own terms. I made that announcement in my own town square." Andy...