Oliver Sacks Joins Columbia Faculty
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Attracted by his breadth of interests, Columbia University has appointed Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer, as its first Columbia artist, a newly created designation.
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SAN FRANCISCO - More thanÂ 40 years after Purdue University established the first department of computer science in the U.S., a whole new field of study is about to emerge in colleges and universities throughout the country, according to a researcher at IBM Corp.'s Almaden Research Center, who believes that students could begin to receive doctorate degrees in the field of "services sciences" in 10 years time.
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The big-bang theory of the universe, microcredit and literature exploring Turkey's clash of cultures will be honored as six American scientists, a Bangladeshi economist and a Turkish novelist receive the Nobel Prizes Sunday in Stockholm and Oslo.
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By Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Dec. 9--U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has named 15 business and academic leaders -- including retired Synovus chairman and CEO James Blanchard -- to serve on a new panel he has formed to understand better how U.S.
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and University of Colorado adjutant professor Eric Cornell is reportedly suffering from a rare &quot;flesh-eating&quot; bacterial disease.
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British author Salman Rushdie will join the faculty at Atlanta's Emory University next year and will donate his archive to the school's library, it was announced.
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New research underscores a vast transformation in the way scientists have come to understand the sleeping brain.
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Robert L. Joss , dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has been working to elevate the profession of management. Joss, 63, took the helm at Stanford in 1999, and has navigated the California business school through an era of boom, bust, and financial abuses. He spoke with Globe reporter Robert Weisman on a recent visit to Boston.
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Researchers have established the fact that migraine can be a progressive disorder and frequent sufferers have an increased risk of brain damage.. Prof Richard Lipton, from New York&#39;s Albert Einstein College
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The Greatest is now an Ivy League doctor. Muhammad Ali has been awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities from Princeton University.
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By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  May 31--NORTH GREENBUSH -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is seeking to join its powerful new IBM Blue Gene supercomputer with one at Stony Brook University to do cutting-edge biotechnology research.
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British-based Professor David Alexander is the head of the Disaster Management Subject Group at Coventry University&#39;s School of Science and the Environment.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 19--NEW HAVEN -- A Yale University professor who is studying the effects of deforestation around the world has been named a MacArthur Fellow, the MacArthur Foundation announced early today.
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The City University of New York tapped BusinessWeek editor Stephen B. Shepard late yesterday to lead its new graduate school of journalism, set to open in 2006.
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Appreciation: Folkman, who died Tuesday,  cured cancer in the lab and revolutionized treatment of the disease. His colleagues talk about the impact of the man and his research
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The new study clarifies the picture of what the sleeping brain does with newly studied material.
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A Georgetown University professor, Dennis P. Lockhart, was named president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank.