Word: research
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Julia Brown, one of the newly selected fellows and assistant professor of English at Boston University, said yesterday she was looking forward to continuing her research on the Bronte sisters at Harvard. Her current three-course work-load at B.U. allows her little time to pursue her own academic interests, she added...
President Carter's proposed budget for 1980 increases basic scientific research funding by about 9 per cent, a rise which could make more research money available to Harvard professors...
...rise in support of this kind of research is surely going to be beneficial to Harvard and institutions like it," George C. Pimentel, deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, said yesterday...
...specific figures are available on how much additional money Harvard might receive, since federal agencies award research grants individually during the year...
...Medical researchers have long suspected that electricity can stimulate bone growth. But it was not until 1970 that Dr. Carl Brighton and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine actually showed that a small direct current could help mend patients' stubborn fractures. Today several dozen hospitals in the U.S. and abroad are using electrical treatment on orthopedic patients for whom other therapies have failed. Says Dr. C. Andrew Bassett, chief of Columbia-Presbyterian's orthopedic research labs: "No question about it. In these cases, electricity can significantly speed up the healing process...