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Sociologist and political scientist Philip E. Converse, a former professor at the University of Michigan, has spent half a century studying voting behavior...
...leader in the research of telomeres, part of the DNA in chromosomes which keep genetic information consistent, Blackburn has been recognized numerous times for her work. Her honors include the National Academy of Science’s Molecular Biology Award (1990), the California Scientist of the Year award (1999), the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000), and the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine...
Harvard stem cell scientists were humbled in 2004 when South Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk announced that he had created stem cell lines from cloned human embryos. “Without question, the South Koreans are the world leaders in this research, hands down,” said Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton at the time.But with Hwang’s advance came new resolve.“Harvard scientists are a competitive lot,” Harvard Medical School professor George Q. Daley told The Crimson at the time. “We should...
School of Public Health (SPH) faculty members fumed after Summers seized control in 2004 of an SPH professor’s federal grant to fight AIDS in Africa. And Summers’ decision to appoint political scientist Alan A. Altshuler as dean of the Graduate School of Design rankled professors who would have preferred an architect...
...identify the potential for computers and technology in research,” according to Ben-Shahar.Stone contributed his innovative ideas to the Gallup Organization by helping the polling and consulting firm devise computer programs to synthesize and code text material collected through their national surveys. Stone became a senior scientist at Gallup in 1995.Along with his service at Harvard, Stone has served as a consultant to a wide range of clients, including the U.S. State Department and the National Cancer Institute.‘A REMARKABLE RESPECT’Dannielle Kennedy, a close personal friend, describes Stone...