Late last year, Business Week reported comments by Harvard President Meg Faust suggesting that state schools that could no longer afford the competition should get out of the hard sciences, favoring the less expensive social sciences instead. President Faust denied making that statement, and the magazine, in a review of the tapes of the interview, [...]
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Universities often go through the exercise of identifying the economic impact of their activities on their local communities. This usually takes place immediately prior to submission of some massive development plan for the area around their central campuses, but in this case, the impact of a Cornell University research project extended far beyond the borders [...]
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University research isn’t always oriented to curing disease or discovering new planets. Sometimes the best minds, this time from UCLA and Harvard, direct their efforts toward more worldly pursuits, specifically winning Academy Awards. Nicole Esparza, a health policy researcher at Harvard, was the lead investigator of a statistical study which demonstrated that the best way [...]
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A team of astronomers using the Cornell University-run radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico have detected two key molecules believed to be important in the formation of living organisms, methanimine and hydrogen cyanide, in a galaxy 250 million light years away from Earth. This discovery suggests that these relatively complex molecules might be part [...]
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Columbia professor Sudhir Venkatesh has published a new book on his sociological studies of gangs in the housing projects of Chicago entitled “Gang Leader for a Day. A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.” Some of the work portrayed in this review seems more than a bit beyond normal academic research. Professor Venkatesh even was [...]
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Can odor be used to diagnose disease and provide a guideline to treatment? Dr. William Hanson of the University of Pennsylvania is an anesthesiologist who thinks so and is researching an electronic nose to sense molecules in the breadth of patients that might be correlated with a variety of ailments. Speed, low cost, and non-invasiveness [...]
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From the Los Angeles Times (and covered extensively elsewhere), we have a report of a scientific debate on the merits of forgiveness for the sake of our health. Every major world religion espouses the value of this all-too-rare human trait, but has science demonstrated its value to the person doing the forgiving? Among a number [...]
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