Word: researching
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Funding for research projects is notoriously scarce for junior science faculty at Harvard but at least two assistant professors do not have to worry about the problem...
...California-based Packard Foundation has awarded grants of $500,000 each to Daniel J. Jacob and Cumrun Vafa for research in their respective specialties of atmospherics and theoretical physics. The Packard grants are the largest in the nation given exclusively to junior faculty in the sciences...
Jacob, a member of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department said yesterday he plans to use the money to research the effects of human activity onthe composition of the atmosphere...
...recycling effort stems from work begun in 1987 by Katie Smith, a K-School research assistant, who in turn galvanized student support for environmental conservation...
Papers containing original research from the area of study would serve as an ideal accountability mechanism. Departments would surely appreciate the increase in current, original scholarship. There is no reason why academic advisers or other faculty could not take the time to evaluate the work of students who study abroad. After all, if the learning were taking place on this campus, faculty members would be grading papers as a matter of course...