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...became the director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, an independent research institution in Stanford, Calif. After five years, he retired and has spent time writing and traveling...
...president,” writes Gardner in an e-mail. “The knowledge base and personal qualities desired are sufficiently rare that only a few people qualify.”Prominent leaders in higher education today include anthropologist Alison F. Richard, head of the University of Cambridge; Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, a professor of philosophy; University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman; Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman; and Shirley Ann Jackson, a physicist and the president of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Other candidates whose names have been bandied about include Ruth J. Simmons, who, as president...
...It’s very new. No one else has seen this before,” Umetsu says. “The biology of these cells is very different from Th2 cells.”Umetsu first discovered the power of NKT cells when he was at Stanford University, working with specially engineered mice.“In the absence of NKT cells, we couldn’t induce asthma. We thought it had to be looked at in humans. We found that there are a large number of these NKT cells in the lungs of patients with severe asthma...
...among the faculty leadership and deans...about the need to use Allston as a platform for innovative science,” Buehrens says.Harvard’s emphasis on science under Summers coincided with regional aspirations to establish Boston as an East coast counterweight to the technological powerhouses of Stanford and Caltech in California.Throughout his tenure, Summers went to great lengths to fashion a friendly relationship with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, known affectionately as “Mumbles.”The director of community relations for Boston, Kevin M. McClusky ’76, says that this partnership would...
...great consumer of Pepto Bismol.” “There were no parties, but John did have a social life,” Bush said.Roberts was also described as somewhat formal. Indeed, Bush recalls that “when he was considering law schools, John removed Stanford from his list because the Stanford interviewer was wearing sandals and didn’t have a tie.”At the Law School, Roberts became the managing editor of the Law Review, where he was known as a fair and honest boss and a hard worker who was never...