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...relationship with a "quasi-governmental" organization like the Smithsonian allows professors and students unusual possibilities for research, Kirshner says...
...Limonta became director of the brand-new CIGB, which quickly grew into a sprawling research dynamo, one of more than two dozen Cuban institutes dedicated to the biological sciences. The center--along with its marketing arm, a quasi-corporate entity called Heber Biotec--now employs more than 1,200 technicians and scientists. "We don't have an institute of this size devoted to biotechnology in all Australia," marvels Peter Willadsen, a molecular biologist who directs a center on animal diseases in Indooroopilly, Australia...
...speaker subcommittee put poster boards in the dining halls to get suggestions," Cahn said. "The gist was that students wanted someone who was not a politician, not an academic, someone entertaining and yet quasi-intellectual...
...that meant that the subjects of what used to be called concerned photography--the migrant workers of Dorothea Lange, for example, or the G.I.s of Robert Capa--lost some of their claim on the imagination. The icons of the 1950s would be personal and a bit inscrutable, like the quasi-mystical nature studies of Minor White and the abstract close-ups of torn posters by Aaron Siskind...
...Such quasi-scholarships would contradict standard Ivy League policy, which prohibits so-called "merit" scholarships in favor of need-based financial...