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Languages

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:26:13 UT

Daniel Ferreras is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at West Virginia University. He specializes in Spanish and French modern literature, popular and marginal narrative genres, and literary theory

NEW! Create Change Bookmarks

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:01:09 UT

The first Create Change bookmarks, launched in June 2008, highlight comments from four researchers. Comments are drawn from full-length interviews published on the Create Change Web site…

Information Liberation

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:12:26 UT

Mar. 7, 2008 (Wall Street Journal) – If your child has a life-threatening disease and you’re desperate to read the latest research, you’ll be dismayed to learn that you can’t – at least not without hugely expensive subscriptions to a bevy of specialized journals or access to a major research library…

Music Therapy & Indigenous Studies

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:41:16 UT

Carolyn Kenny is a professor of human development and indigenous studies in the Antioch University Ph.D. in Leadership and Change.

English

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:47:12 UT

Professor Linda Hutcheon was appointed to the University of Toronto Department of English in 1988, having previously been an associate of the university’s Centre for Comparative Literature since 1980.

Mathematics

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:44:32 UT

David R. Morrison is a professor of mathematics and physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

Medicine

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:41:17 UT

Gordon Henry Guyatt is a physician and professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Microbiology

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:38:50 UT

Gary Ward, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Vermont, received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.

History

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:36:44 UT

The late Roy Rosenzweig was professor of history and new media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and Founder of the Center for History and New Media.

Economics

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:32:30 UT

Martin J. Osborne is a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on game theory and its applications.

Computer Science

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:28:17 UT

Leslie Pack Kaelbling is professor of computer science and engineering and a research director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Engineering

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:23:28 UT

Zhigang Suo is the Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett professor of mechanics and materials at Harvard University.

Harvard Liberal Arts Faculty Votes to Distribute Research Free

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:00:39 UT

Feb. 13, 2008 (Bloomberg)—Harvard University professors may publish more research online, free to readers, after the school’s arts and sciences faculty adopted a new policy that may be a blow to scholarly journal publishers.

Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:59:36 UT

Jan. 22, 2008 (New York Times) – Not long ago, I asked a respected cancer researcher if he could send me raw data from a trial he had recently published. He refused. Sharing data would make the study team members “uncomfortable,” he said, as I might use this to “cast doubt” on their results.

Measure Would Require Free Access To Results of NIH-Funded Research

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:58:33 UT

Dec. 21, 2007 (Washington Post) – It is barely a drop of ink in the gargantuan omnibus spending bill that Congress just passed. But a provision that would give the public free access to the results of federally funded biomedical research represents a sweet victory for a coalition of researchers and activists…