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Knowles’ comparisons pit Harvard against peer institutions. At Yale, for example, 39 percent of professors are hard scientists??3 percentage points above the figure for Harvard. (Princeton, Stanford, and Berkeley are even more heavily weighted toward the hard-science side.) Meanwhile, just 24 percent of Yale faculty members are social scientists, 10 percentage points below the Harvard figure. (The other three schools’ faculties have even smaller social science contingents...
...that, they claim, has misrepresented their studies on alternatives for research using human embryonic cells. Published by the United States Domestic Policy Council (DPC) on Jan. 9, the report on “Advancing Stem Cell Science Without Destroying Human Life” asserted that the results of the scientists?? research emphasized the possibility of “creating cell lines for the study and treatment of disease without the many ethical dilemmas associated with the creation and destruction of embryos.” In a letter addressed to two Congressmen, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology...
Economists, political scientists, public policy experts, architects and designers, lawyers, and scientists??all of these members of the Harvard community study energy and society’s dependence on it. Yet they do so with too little cooperation or communication. Indeed, in most cases, at least at Harvard, they only see each other when they trek to Tercentenary Theatre in academic garb each June. Such division is unnecessary and inefficient. Given the profound impact the academy can have on defusing potentially cataclysmic situations involving the global use of energy, Harvard should bring these scholars under one roof...
...said. “It’s really going to tell us something fundamental about the world.” Physicists have tried for years to find the value of the cosmological constant, a number supposedly responsible for keeping particles in our universe stable. But scientists?? calculations always overshoot the actual value. For decades, the issue of how such a finely-tuned constant could exist has puzzled top scholars. “If any constants of nature were a tiny bit different it would totally disturb the universe,” Arkani-Hamed explained. The theory...
...believe Ariad’s patent is invalid, not infringed and unenforcable,” spokeswoman Terra Fox wrote in a statement. In a court brief, Eli Lilly argues that the institutions had patented “natural, scientific principles,” making their claims invalid. The scientists?? discovery, Eli Lilly states in court filings, is “simply a discovery of a natural, scientific principle that has existed in Nature for more than 200 million years.” If the plaintiffs are successful and win damages from Eli Lilly, a percentage of those royalites...