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...website. A few years ago, TCM went online, purchasing the database of the American Film Institute, which used to publish huge volumes detailing virtually every Hollywood and off-Hollywood movie. As an evocative hoard of info it's up there with the Internet Movie Database. This snazzy site also encourages readers to suggest films for airing. Of course it sells stuff, including the TCM-related DVDs produced by Warner Home Video. But you'll find recommendations books and new DVD collections that are issued by competitors. Very collegial...
...Portuguese scientists, and opportunities for researchers and professors to travel between the two countries to teach and collaborate. The program may also send a few undergraduates to Portugal each summer to work in labs, and Harvard’s Health Publications Division will help Portuguese health professionals produce and publish medical information for use by researchers and the general public. In recent years, Harvard and other universities have increasingly funneled resources into promoting translational research. Last summer, the University received a $117.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to found the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center...
...Associate Professor in the History Department, Jasanoff has only begun to make her mark on Harvard. On the way from her cozy Adams dorm room to her current office in the Center for European Studies, Jasanoff managed to earn a Masters at Oxford, a Ph.D. at Yale, publish her first book (with a second on the way), earn a fellowship at the Michigan Society of Fellows, and spend a few years teaching at the University of Virginia. While this fast-paced track into academia might seem intimidating to some, it came naturally to Jasanoff. “I always loved...
...producing content for global consumption can be hugely expensive. MIT, an open-courseware pioneer that since 2002 has published text materials such as lecture notes and syllabi for about 85% of its curriculum, spends more than $10,000 per course to compile, publish and license text materials; classes with videos cost twice as much...
...hours for men. This difference adds up to men spending about two more full work-weeks a year writing than women do. That can make a big difference at a time when schools' increased reliance on adjunct professors is pushing the bar for promotion higher, requiring tenure hopefuls to publish more than ever. "What men and women value differs slightly," says MLA executive director Rosemary Feal. "Men align the way they spend their time on the activities that are most readily rewarded." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...