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Faculty & Staff

Venturing Into Computational Humanities

Venturing Into Computational HumanitiesNew field seeks to bring advanced computing to humanities, social science researchBy Ronald Roach It’s natural to expect that a significant degree of contemporary scientific discoveries stem from the application of high-performance computing and supercomputers to complex problems. Given that high-performance computing has exclusively been serving science for some time, a California-based […]

February 26, 2003

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Bernard E. Anderson Receives Westerfield Award

Bernard E. Anderson Receives Westerfield Award WASHINGTONThe National Economic Association honored Professor Bernard E. Anderson earlier this month with the 2002-2003 Samuel Z. Westerfield Award at the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) meetings. The award was presented on Jan. 3 at a luncheon at the Marriott Metro Hotel in Washington. Anderson, who was assistant secretary […]

January 29, 2003

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Raising the Spotlight on Affordable Housing Despite research

Raising the Spotlight on Affordable Housing Despite research illustrating the presence of an acute affordable housing crisis, the issue remains below the national radar, experts sayBy Ronald RoachTo Dr. Victoria M. Basolo, a professor of urban planning at the University of California-Irvine, the desire to play a part in making sure all Americans have adequate […]

December 18, 2002

Leadership & Policy

The Dilemma of the ‘Double Day’

The Dilemma of the ‘Double Day’ Although men are doing more, many women in higher education still find they have two domains – the university and the homeIt’s a new twist on an old theme. Men have done it for years — left their families temporarily so that they could pursue better opportunities. And now […]

November 20, 2002

Health

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial Data

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial DataProposal is proving divisive among academics, and even past Connerly supportersBy Pamela BurdmanWard Connerly, the regent who brought the affirmative action ban to the University of California, now is  taking his campaign for race-blindness a step farther with a controversial new proposal that already is infuriating academics. After […]

June 19, 2002

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John Hope Franklin Honored for Lifetime Achievement

John Hope Franklin Honored for Lifetime AchievementNEW YORKHistorian John Hope Franklin was awarded the Gold Medal in History by the American Academy of Arts and Letters last month for his long and distinguished career as a scholar, intellectual leader and civil rights advocate. Franklin, Duke University professor emeritus, was presented with the award by historian […]

June 5, 2002

African-American

Letters

Dear Editor: Thank you for your March 28th insightful and inspirational article on the unheralded contributions of Black mothers and historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities to this nation. As of Jan. 1, 2002, I became the President and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), which is the […]

May 8, 2002

Students

Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?

Do Babies Matter When Charting an Academic Career?The academy seems to think so.The University of California-Berkeley has just released a set of statistics that should give pause to every female academic of child-bearing age.Women who have children early in their careers — that is, between one and five years after receiving a doctorate — are […]

March 27, 2002

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Cuba’s Intellectual Blockade: U.S. Embargo or Cuban Censorship?

Cuba’s Intellectual Blockade: U.S. Embargo or Cuban Censorship?By Mae HendersonR ecently, I had the opportunity, for a second time, to visit the small island nation of Cuba. I first went there during the 1970s, when I was a graduate student, and saw that nearest, and most distant, of neighboring countries. During a rare window of […]

November 7, 2001

African-American

Asking The Right Questions

Asking The Right QuestionsPsychologist puts African Americans at the center of social science research. By Kendra Hamilton ANN ARBOR, Mich.“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.” They were immortal words, words that defined a crucial era of American race relations. But now, at the dawn of a new century, the globalization […]

April 11, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Building African American E-Culture

Building African American E-CultureSince his days as a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, computer scientist Dr. Juan E. Gilbert has sought to make his research in instructional technology relevant to the needs of African American students.His dissertation focused on creating a Web-based tutoring program and offered not just one teaching style but a […]

January 31, 2001

International

A Renaissance Center Named for a Renaissance Man

A Renaissance Center Named for a Renaissance ManMany people do not know that in addition to being a world-renowned historian, Dr. John Hope Franklin is also a lover and grower of orchids. There’s even one named after him, the Phalaenopsis-John Hope Franklin.Considering his varied interests, its seems only fitting that the Duke University center that […]

January 17, 2001