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...Desert Island lab for 40 years and served as its president for 10 years. As a research mentor in Maine, Epstein worked with high school and medical school students exploring marine physiology. Michael Amato, a freshman at the University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, worked with Epstein last summer. “He was patient with us and let us make mistakes,” Amato said. “He was always kind and patient.” Amato recalled how Epstein made a point of connecting their research to the human body. “It really enhanced...
...kind of interaction. She acknowledged that, although it may be “daunting to locate these laboratory openings,” establishing a centralized database may ease this difficulty. Hammonds also praised Harvard’s Program for Research in Science and Engineering—the 10-week summer residential program for students doing on-campus science research—as a “model for student-faculty interactions” and stressed the need to establish a similar opportunity for the social sciences. In addition, she spoke of the potential for more research openings once the University?...
When she visited Cambridge the summer before her freshman year, Pauley says the streets were awash with musicians and there was something about the creative spirit of the Square that “really jove” in her head. “I extra fell in love because of the street performers,” she said...
...world. Nkunda, for example, is widely believed to be profiting from the transit of minerals through areas he controls (he claims he is only policing the area to protect ethnic Tutsis). Global Witness, a London based NGO, sent researchers to the the provinces of North and South Kivu this summer and reported back that Hutu armed groups as well as members of the country's armed forces were profiting from the trade in cassiterite, or iron ore. The group wants to exert more pressure on Western governments and companies to prevent profits from ending up in the pockets of combatants...
...troops out of Iraq too quickly. Obama has agreed to "consult with the Iraqi government and the U.S. military in the field," Zebari told BBC television on Wednesday. And Obama himself has indicated that he's willing to revisit his 16-month withdrawal schedule. He acknowledged over the summer that it may be necessary to "slow the pace because of the safety of American troops," he said. "I would be a poor commander-in-chief if I didn't take facts on the ground into account." (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...