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When Giuliana Bruno arrived at Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies department (VES) 13 years ago to teach subjects including film theory, she says the department had never offered tenure to a film studies specialist. Two previous hires with expertise in the field, she says, had never made it past assistant professor. VES is a small department, with 11 permanent faculty teaching this term, and today, more than four years after receiving tenure, Bruno is still its only full professor with a focus on film studies. But after years of painstakingly laying the foundations for a degree-offering...
...could reasonably construe the incident as a success or an example of effective governance. It’s more of a taint on the Board’s reputation rather than on the university,” said Richard Chait, a specialist in university governance at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education...
Just as important as getting the research rolling is fixing the health-care system kids rely on to get well. Like adults taking mind meds, children often get their drugs not from a specialist in psychiatry and psychopharmacology but from any M.D. with the power of the prescription pad. Usually this means the pediatrician or family doctor, who isn't likely to have the time or training necessary for the extensive evaluations needed before drugs can be properly prescribed--much less the required follow-up visits. "There's no way you can screen for side effects in a 10-year...
...which, already disinclined to pay for longer, more costly talk therapy, is equally reluctant to foot the bill to make sure patients on pills are well monitored. In a perfect--or at least better--world, says Elliott, parents considering meds for their kids would have access not to one specialist but three: a pediatrician, a behavioral pediatrician and a child-adolescent psychiatrist. "Insurance companies talk about second opinions," he says, "but they don't actually like them...
...very happy with the race myself,” McLean-Foreman wrote in an e-mail. “As I’m a middle distance specialist, used to running 800m, 8000m is always pretty tough (especially at Van Cortlandt [Park, where the race was held]) so I’m pleased with the result.…I’m focusing on the track season and this was a nice surprise...