The Duke Academic Council recently approved a set of guidelines for determining authorship of scientific papers and resolving disputes over authorship: http://www.provost.duke.edu/pdfs/Authorship_guidelines.pdf The guidelines are pretty short (2 pages), and whether you’ve been working...
hi all, i’ve never had much experience with blogs. when i first set up a myspace account i was so excited i posted two entries – and that’s all i’ve got, for blogs. it’s...
For all of you interested in alternative energy, some chemists at MIT made a major breakthrough recently by discovering a cheap new way to catalyze solar powered water electrolysis. (In plain English: they use...
Hello fellow Scholars, I’ve been meaning to post for sometime now from Moss Landing, CA, home to Phil’s Fish Market, more sea lions than people, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where I...
Hi all and welcome new Unis! For those who don’t know me, my name is Yeney Hernandez and I am a rising senior Uni from the Trinity School of Arts and Sciences. I am...
In the interest of consolidating all the names in one place, I’ve taken the liberty of doing so, culling from the various posts and comments, plus adding a few more: Anthony Kelley and Jennifer...
Symposium Planning Seminar Recap (Jan. 14, 2008) At this past Monday’s seminar, we discussed ways in which our current work could be viewed (or not) through the lens of “recycle,” our theme for this...
After the seminar on Thursday, I realized that my current research focuses on a unique recyclable that never came up during our discussion: money! Beyond the normal circulation of currency that we engage in...
Here is the link to “Recycling is Garbage” by John Tierney, and here’s another story that pretty much states his views on sustainability (i.e., human ingenuity is one resource we won’t soon run out...
I’m posting a brief blurb about my dissertation project so that I can find a group for the symposium. The goal of my dissertation is to analyze the durability of distinct medical cultures in...
