Word: research
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just a few miles apart along the Charles River sit two heavyweights in computer science, campuses teeming with new facilities and field-expanding research...
...addition, the Microsoft Corp. has made sizable donations to MIT, making it one of many companies to give money for research or education in Cambridge...
This project comes in the wake of two $20 million private donations given by Microsoft executives Gates and Ballmer, one to MIT and one to Harvard. The money is being used to build new labs for technology research at each school...
Helen agrees and says, "It is something special to get that far away from the world." A clinical-research nurse, she exercises regularly but had a rough time on the rugged, muddy 9-mile trek up to the base camp in the Machalilla National Park of coastal Ecuador. It was easier for Lee, a biophysicist who at 67 still bikes 30 miles round trip every day between their home in a Philadelphia suburb and his office at the University of Pennsylvania. For their nine days, not including airfare, they paid a little less than $1,600, which is partly...
...even though she was on one of the most rigorous of the more than 140 Earthwatch research projects this year. The Earthwatch Institute, based in Watertown, Mass., is a pioneer in enlisting volunteer workers to assist scientists on projects from deserts to ocean floors. This year 720 volunteer teams will go to international and U.S. sites, compared with just four when Earthwatch was launched in 1971. While more than 2,000 scientific papers have resulted from Earthwatch expeditions, volunteers for the most part are required only to have physical endurance and willing hands. Supervised by ecologist Dustin Becker, the Peacheys...