Word: role
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Even as activist alumni continue their campaign to gain pro-divestment seats on the Board of Overseers, a Board committee, chaired by Boston Federal District Court Judge William G. Young '62, releases a report asking the University to take a more active role in its elections...
While Allison played a relatively insignificant part in the review--leaving the process in the hands of faculty and students--professors say they expect Putnam will play a larger role in determining the future direction of the curriculum review. The next stage, they say, will include the actual development of courses in ethics and politics...
...when Pons and Fleischmann claimed that they had achieved fusion at room temperature with relatively inexpensive equipment, the two scientists were cast in an unfamiliar role--that of celebrities...
...time, many professors raised ethical issues, questioning the role of industry in academia and expressing concern that doctors would exploit patients for personal profit...
Questions concerning industry's role in academia took center stage at the Med School when it was disclosed that Sheffer C.G. Tseng, an ophthalmology fellow, had apparently acted unethically in his research. Tseng was found by the University to have exaggerated results of his experiments on a vitamin A treatment for dry-eye disease while owning substantial stock in the company that manufactures the drug...