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Thompson, Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science at HSPH, says the book will be required reading—along with articles and case studies??for her WinterSession class at HSPH on environmental health risk...
...fair, a mechanism for government funding of cannabis research exists, but it is insufficient. Research-grade marijuana is available for “well-designed studies?? through the Department of Health and Human Services. Still, the government is far from encouraging this sort of research, and there are many bureaucratic hurdles that must be cleared before such research can be undertaken. According to Dr. Shaffer, these obstacles significantly inhibit scientific interest and effort towards understanding the medical applications of marijuana. “There is some research going on regarding medical marijuana, but it is limited...
...doing anything differently this year, and expect, based on past experience, to continue to recommend the vast majority of our students for honors,” Bernstein writes, adding that the College has almost always accepted social studies?? recommendations in the past, occasionally giving a student a lower level of honors than that recommended by the concentration based on overall cutoff levels for the College...
Last semester, Professor Manning Marable of Columbia University delivered a lecture entitled “The Future of Black Studies?? for the Dubois Institute at Harvard University. He raised a number of critiques of the academic discipline at this moment in time and offered a glimpse of what he believes is the solution to the “crisis” in African and African-American studies. With the impending, acrimonious departures of Tishman and Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo and Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies...
...survival of black studies as an important and legitimate discipline. Over fifty years ago, Gunnar Myrdal scolded Americans for demanding objectivity in “legitimate” scholarship. Scholarship is legitimized when it identifies a problem or question and seeks to solve it. Black studies??an attempt to solve the problem of racism and racial inequality worldwide—has in many ways been moved away from the goal that defines it. While black intellectuals have attempted to remain ivory-tower-objective, the right wing has launched a multi-layered attack on the credibility of the whole...