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...Keohane will assume Hanna H. Gray’s seat on the seven-member Harvard Corporation in June, and was selected by the Corporation yesterday. Gray was a female pioneer in higher education, serving as the first female president of a major research university: she led the University of Chicago from...
...cold Chicago day in the late 1990s, physicist David Grier was fiddling around in his laboratory with a cheap piece of plastic and a laser. Grier and a graduate student named Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap" - a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. Multiple traps, used in tandem, could let the scientists play traffic cop on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts - removing bacteria from blood, for example. But first they had to make it work. For a year, Grier...
...that trapped just one substance. That was a monumental breakthrough, but scientists began to ponder traps that could catch multiple substances and move them from one point to another. Since their plastic fantastic moment gave Grier and Dufresne 16 separate optical traps, that was enough for the University of Chicago to eventually showcase the duo to Lewis Gruber, a biotech entrepreneur and patent lawyer. Within months, he had invested in the technology, and Arryx was born, with Gruber as chief executive. Grier today is its chief scientific adviser, and a professor at New York University...
...Washington Wizards, argues that Jordan's on-court performance in D.C. won't taint his legacy. (At 40, he averaged 20 points a game.) But in the locker room and executive suite, explains Leahy, the game's greatest player tossed an airball. Jordan ran the Wizards from distant Chicago and hired cronies. And once, after Jerry Stackhouse hit a buzzer shot to give the Wizards a win, Jordan credited himself for drawing the defense's attention. Wanna be like Mike? Not when it comes to management. --By Sean Gregory
...first place. The money invested in standardized testing could find a much better use by being invested back into the schools, and no student’s future should ever be dependent on one standardized test. Institutions such as the University of California schools, Bates and the University of Chicago do not require SAT scores from applicants...