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...unlikely alliance between pulp fiction and organic chemistry, Patricia Cornwell, author of the best-selling “Scarpetta” thrillers, will establish a conservation scientist position at Harvard to further close examinations of art materials...
...search for a scientist to fill the position, known as the Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, will begin as soon as the endowment is complete, Lie said. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will match Cornwell’s gift...
...five and three percent declines in female concentrators since 2002, both fields still have a larger percentage of female concentrators than computer science. In the 2007-2008 academic year, women numbered 38 percent of engineering concentrators and only 17 percent of computer-science concentrators.According to Joanne Cohoon, a research scientist at the National Center for Women & Information Technology, this trend is nothing new. Female enrollment in computer-science courses has been declining since the 1980s. The push to establish computer science as an independent discipline with specialized knowledge “hardened” the image of computer scientists...
...There is no question that the large-bowel microflora [bacteria] are important for human health and that probiotics can contribute positively," says David Topping, a chief research scientist at Australia's premier science body, the CSIRO. "But there is much that we don't know about the nature of the benefits they give...
...became a pretty energetic place. But it became a scarier place too. In the newly deregulated American economy, fewer people had job security or fixed-benefit pensions or reliable health care. Some got rich, but a lot went bankrupt, mostly because of health-care costs. As Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker has noted, Americans today experience far-more-violent swings in household income than did their parents a generation ago. (See pictures of the 1958 recession...