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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release
Law School professor Ruth Wedgwood of New Haven attended the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she was invited to argue as "amicus curiae" before the tribunal in the Netherlands.
Professor Tufte teaches in the political science and computer science departments and is also a senior critic in graphic design at the School of Art.
Professor Tobin won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his work in macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, fiscal policy and public finance.
www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/97-09-05-02.all.html   (777 words)

  
  Michael Sterling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Professor Michael Sterling (born 9 February 1946) is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Birmingham.
Professor Sterling is Chairman of the Russell Group, representing the UK’s 19 leading universities, a Board Member of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), a Board Member of Advantage West Midlands (the regional RDA), a member of AWM’s Innovation and Technology Council and Chair of AWM’s Information and Communication Technology Steering Group.
Sterling also courted controversy when claiming that the then proposed £3,000 top-up fees would not be enough for Birmingham, stating that £5,000 would be more appropriate for his university.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Sterling   (366 words)

  
 Intellectual Debates in Islam in the New Global Era
MOHAMED ARKOUN is Emeritus Professor of Islamic studies at the Sorbonne (Paris, France); Visiting Professor at the Ismaili Studies Institute in London; and Editor of the ARABICA journal.
Professor Arkoun is the the recipient of a number of international awards including decorations of the Officer de la Legion d’Honneur, and Officer des Palmes Academiques.
CHARLES BUTTERWORTH is Professor of Politics and Political Philosophy in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.
www.loc.gov /locvideo/mslm/mslmintl   (894 words)

  
 yaledailynews.com - Sterling Professorships distinguish Yale's top scholars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
"[Sterling professors must] be at the forefront of their field and great intellectual citizens of the community," he said.
Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor in comparative literature and French, who is on a leave of absence this year, said Sterling professors still bear the same workload as other faculty members.
Sterling professors may carry a similar teaching and research workload as colleagues without the endowed professorship, but most are pleased to have been recognized.
www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=18373   (910 words)

  
 Brown Medical School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Anne Fausto-Sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University.
Professor Fausto-Sterling's past laboratory work has included studies of the genetics of development in fruit flies and the developmental ecology of flatworms.
Professor Fausto-Sterling's current case studies examine sex differences in bone development, the emergence of gender differences in behavior in early childhood and the emergence of human sexuality.
brown.edu /Divisions/Medical_School/andera/profile.php?id=1100924089   (1188 words)

  
 YAM February 1999 - How Sterling Professors Get That Way
Professor of English literature Chauncey Brewster Tinker is among them, as are such other luminaries in the English department as Wilbur Lucius Cross, Maynard Mack, and Louis Martz.
She was followed in 1991 by Sterling Professor of Genetics Carolyn Slayman, who is a deputy dean of the Medical School; Sterling Professor of English Marie Borroff, who held the chair from 1992 to 1994; and Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Joan Steitz, who was appointed last year.
Steitz's path to the Sterling professorship began with a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Antioch College in 1963, and progressed through her doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard, where she studied with Nobel laureate James Watson, one of the discoverers of the structure of DNA.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/99_02/sterling.html   (2672 words)

  
 Yale Bulletin and Calendar
Professor May served on an international team of scholars assembling Diderot's complete works and contributed his own edition of "La Religieuse (The Nun)" to the series.
Professor May's edition of the correspondence between Rousseau and Mademoiselle de la Tour was published in France in 1998.
The recipient of numerous honorary degrees, Professor May was made a Chevalier in the French Order of the Legion of Honor in 1971.
www.yale.edu /opa/v31.n21/story5.html   (827 words)

  
 e.Peak (4/6/2001) news: Smoking controversy clouds convocation
Retired SFU professor Theodor Sterling, who endows an award at SFU for controversial research, is currently involved in a controversy of his own.
To the outrage of anti-smoking groups, and disappointment of many students, Sterling will be receiving an honourary degree at this week's convocation, despite his background as a paid researcher for tobacco companies.
Sterling received an estimated $5 million dollars from tobacco companies between 1973 and 1990 to study the health effects of tobacco smoke, and his research has been used by tobacco companies to dispute the relationship between tobacco smoke and disease.
www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2001-2/issue5/ne-smoke.html   (379 words)

  
 Library System - Howard University: Development: Sterling A. Brown
Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989), author, critic, professor, Poet Laureate for Washington, DC, and "the Dean of American Poets," was born on Howard University's campus at the site where Cook Hall Dormitory now stands.
Sterling Brown joined the Howard University faculty in 1929 and remained associated with Howard for almost sixty years.
He was one of the first scholars to identify folklore as a vital component of the fl aesthetic and to recognize its validity as a form of artistic expression.
www.howard.edu /library/Development/SterlingBrown.htm   (1146 words)

  
 Sterling D. Allan: Pure Energy Systems, CEO
Sterling is the primary driving force behind FreeEnergyNews.com, PureEnergySystems.com, PESWiki.com, PESN.com, and more recently, NewEnergyCongress.org, which have been growing consistently, with increasing team participation.
Sterling is the founder of a dozen-plus organizations whose functions range from preparedness and alternative energy development and promotion to defining, teaching and researching better ways to live as a society.
Sterling will be giving the closing presentation at this year's Gnomedex conference in Seattle, to talk about Top 100 Energy Technologies and open sourcing breakthrough energy technologies as the culmination of the conference.
pureenergysystems.com /about/personnel/SterlingDAllan   (4795 words)

  
 yaledailynews.com - Sterling French professor May dies at 82   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Professor emeritus of French Georges May, a former University provost and dean of Yale College, died Feb. 28 from a heart condition.
Known at Yale for his warmth, rationality and scholarship, May served as dean of Yale College from 1963 to 1971, chairman of the French Department from 1978 to 1979, and University provost from 1979 to 1981.
By the late 1950s, when professor emeritus of French Charles Porter arrived at Yale as a graduate student, May was already internationally renowned for his scholarship in 17th- and 18th-century French literature.
www.yaledailynews.com /article.asp?AID=22096   (732 words)

  
 Professor Daniel Sterling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Two years after joining the college, Daniel Sterling took over as chair of the mathematics department allowing Wilson Gateley to turn his efforts to computer science.
Sterling's interests in mathematics centered on algebra and number theory, and he was known by students for his abstract approaches to most subjects; he once argued that computer science could be taught without access to a computer.
Sterling then worked for Martin Marietta, a major defense contractor in Denver, before moving to southern California.
www.coloradocollege.edu /dept/ma/history/Faculty/Sterling.html   (164 words)

  
 Yale scientist honored with Keio University Medical Science Prize
New Haven, Conn. -- Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, received the 11th Keio Medical Science Prize in a ceremony and commemorative symposium on November 1 at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.
The work of Steitz and his Yale colleague Peter B. Moore, Sterling Professor of Chemistry, shed light on the specific molecular interactions involved between antibiotic and ribosome, and then further the on the molecular changes that bacteria evolve to become resistant.
He was appointed full professor in 1979 and was honored as Sterling Professor in 2001.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-11/yu-ysh112206.php   (546 words)

  
 Elms and Magnolias: The 20th Century Continued
Professor Wright was the first tenured woman in the arts and sciences at Yale.
Perhaps her most enduring contribution to Yale was her instrumental role in the choice of Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History, to become a historian of China.
A professor of English from 1922-1944 and Dean of Yale College from 1938-1963, DeVane was one of the most influential figures on the Yale campus for a large part of the twentieth century.
www.library.yale.edu /mssa/elms/20thb.htm   (563 words)

  
 Sterling Group - Malaysia/Singapore 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The tour party consisted of the Sterling Lecturer, Professor Peter J Goodhew FREng, Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Liverpool, supported by a party of nine senior academics from member institutions of the Sterling Group.
The Sterling Lecture was presented at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.
In addition Professor Goodhew is also Director of the UK Centre for Materials Education, which supports the teaching of Materials in all UK Universities, Director of the MATTER project, which produces educational software and President of The Sterling Group of UK Universities with excellence in Engineering.
www.dur.ac.uk /sterling.group/ms04.php   (1619 words)

  
 Some notable Franklin-Sterling references
The first single text describing all the minerals then known to occur in the district was The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey, by Charles Palache (1935).
Professor Frondel and John L. Baum later published a paper on the Franklin orebody which contains fascinating detail of the internal structure and composition of the deposit.
In 1995 Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey : the world's most magnificent mineral deposits was published by Pete J. Dunn.
simplethinking.com /franklinminerals/references.shtml   (377 words)

  
 On the Use of Commodity Clusters for Large-Scale Scientific Applications 2007   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sterling is best known for his work as leader of the Beowulf project, which he started in late 1993 at NASA.
Professor Sterling is currently at the Center for Computation and Technology, Lousiana State University.
Professor Sterling will be followed by guest speaker Dr. Jysoo Lee, Director of the Supercomputing Center at KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information).
www.clustersymposium.org   (269 words)

  
 Anne Fausto-Sterling
is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University.
Until recently Professor Fausto-Sterling's laboratory work has focused on the evolution of regeneration and sexual reproduction in a group of flatworms known as Planaria.
Professor Fausto-Sterling's current case studies in this area examine sex differences in bone development and the emergence of gender differences in behavior in early childhood.
bms.brown.edu /faculty/f/afs/afs_home.html   (260 words)

  
 Gender
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Chair of the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies, Brown University.
Until recently Professor Fausto-Sterling's laboratory work has focused on the evolution of regeneration and sexual reproduction in a group of flatworms known as Planaria.
She is the author of several books, including Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality.
www.philosophytalk.org /pastShows/Gender.htm   (570 words)

  
 professor blooms - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
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www.questia.com /SM.qst?act=search&keywordsSearchType=1000&keywords=professor-bloom's-   (1347 words)

  
 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1969 Fellows Page
Marie Borroff, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, Yale University: 1969.
Rubin Bressler, Professor of Pharmacology, University of Arizona: 1969.
Roberto Juan Llaryora, Professor of Sociology, University of Cologne: 1969.
www.gf.org /69fellow.html   (2708 words)

  
 Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics
William D. Nordhaus, newly appointed as Sterling Professor of Economics, one of Yale's highest faculty honors, is an authority on economic growth whose research has considered such issues as global warming and climate change as well as the extent to which natural resources constrain economic growth.
He was appointed a full professor in 1973, and in 1979 became the first incumbent of the John Musser Professorship of Economics.
The economist has been a consultant to or a member of several committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and is currently a member of its Societal Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change.
www.econ.yale.edu /cowles/news/nordhaus/wdn_01-03-02_sterling.htm   (552 words)

  
 U.S. Military: 8
Elite Law Schools: 0
The brief was prepared under the supervision of counsel of record Walter Dellinger, professor of law at Duke University and former solicitor general of the United States in the Clinton administration.
Another friend of the court brief was signed by 42 members of the Yale Law School Faculty, including Harold Hongju Koh, dean and professor of law; former dean and Sterling Professor of Law Anthony Kronman; and Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Bruce Ackerman.
Their counsel of record was Seth Waxman, a visiting professor of law at Georgetown, and, like Dellinger, a former solicitor general in the Clinton administration.
www.weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/011/959tzkai.asp?pg=1   (531 words)

  
 Cardiovascular And Immunology Research Alliance Announced By Yale And Boehringer Ingelheim
Leaders of the alliance are Jordan S. Pober, professor of Pathology, Dermatology, and Immunobiology at Yale, and Uwe Schoenbeck, Vice President, Cardiovascular Disease, at BIPI.
The alliance arose out of conversations between Pober and Carolyn Slayman, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Deputy Dean of the School of Medicine, and BIPI's Schoenbeck, Mikael Dolsten, Head, Corporate Division Pharma Research and Paul Anderson, Senior Vice President, Research.
In addition to Pober and Slayman, Yale representatives to the Steering Committee include Richard Flavell, Sterling Professor and chair of Immunobiology and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; William Sessa, professor of Pharmacology, and Kim Bottomly, professor of Immunobiology and Deputy Provost for Science, Technology and Faculty Development.
www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=36703&nfid=crss   (720 words)

  
 Embassy of France in the US - France/United States
As many of you know, as we are gathering today, we are subjecting Professor Bruce Ackerman to an act of great cruelty.
I understand the door to Professor Ackerman’s office has a big sign on it that reads “Professor Ackerman will be pleased to talk to you after lunch”.
In Europe, you thus became a fellow of several colleges (Budapest and Berlin) and taught as visiting professor in Vienna and Rome.
www.info-france-usa.org /news/statmnts/2004/france_us030104.asp   (1594 words)

  
 M2 Presswire: Obituary -- Joseph Goldstein Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Obituary -- Joseph Goldstein Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School.
New Haven, Conn. -- Joseph Goldstein, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Derald H. Ruttenberg Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale, died on Sunday, March 12, at Yale New Haven Hospital after being stricken at home.
Born in 1923 in Springfield, Massachusetts, Professor Goldstein received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1943, a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:60107346&refid=ink_tptd_np   (190 words)

  
 Yale Law School
Over 60 full-time professors are joined each year by visiting lecturers, adjunct professors from other parts of the University, and practicing lawyers who assist the full-time clinical faculty as tutors in the clinical program.
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Philosophy
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Harry H. Wellington Professorial Lecturer in Law
www.law.yale.edu /faculty/faculty.htm   (538 words)

  
 Anderson named first Sterling-Goodman Professor
Professor’s career choices take her down roads less traveled
He was recommended for the position by a committee of senior professors in the humanities.
Anderson became an associate professor in 1992 and a full professor in 1997.
www.uga.edu /columns/000918/campnews3.html   (392 words)

  
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