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Under current policy, the University only lays claim to inventions automatically if the invention is “primarily concerned with medical diagnostics/therapeutics or public health??—or if the discovery is facilitated by “substantial” University support...
...interaction and a much-needed break from academic stress. Team members hail from different houses so teams can promote a campus-wide sense of community. Club sports also offer students exercise and the psychological benefits that accompany it; an August 2006 study in the journal “Stress & Health?? found, in college students, a significant negative relationship between physical activity and self-reported anxiety. Were club sports teams better funded, and by extension, less expensive for individual participants, more students would join and benefit from them. The Department of Athletics should address club sports’ funding...
...calendar with its January examinations actually poses some pedagogical advantages. The fact that our calendar does not conform to those found in other places is hardly reason in and of itself for change, and I will need to hear a great deal more about the “mental health?? argument before I can take it as a serious reason for change. And while we are speaking of quality of life issues, what happens in that remarkably fecund period between Thanksgiving and Christmas when plays, concerts, dinners, and all of the exuberance of fall term extracurricular life have...
...similar study, published in December, Thompson and Tebbens, a research associate in the School of Public Health??s Department of Health Policy and Management, reported that the United States spent nearly $35 billion on polio vaccinations between 1955 and 2005. The researchers found that if vaccinations stopped, 1.1 million cases of the disease could erupt in the United States alone, ultimately costing the country $180 billion more than if the original policy were maintained. [SEE CORRECTIONS BELOW...
...cultural anthropology at Harvard. It is this strategy of “doing global health from a social medicine perspective” which illustrates the “genius” of Farmer and PIH, Kleinman said. But the technique is expensive, he added. “Partners in Health??s budget has grown at a remarkable pace,” Marx said. “But the demand for—the need for—the kind of work we do is almost infinite.” He pointed to a $20 million disparity between...