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McVey's paradise is not the only Tuscan town that would appeal to retirees. Montepulciano is a terrific place to get away from it all without ending up in the middle of nowhere. Best known for its vino nobile, the town is perched on a hill just two hours from Rome. At Cantuccio's, for example, one can order a meal of local pasta (pici) with garlic or ragu, rabbit, vin santo and dessert--all for $20. There are more than 100 vineyards in the area; some, such as the Castello Banfi, are worth a visit just for the view...
...area Seltzer's tenure is certainly not out of the ordinary for Harvard--the quality of her academic work. Seltzer's research as the Associate Professor of Computer Science on the Gordon McKay Endowment, including the design of a new operating system, VINO, has been remarkable...
Seltzer was named the 1996-97 recipient of the Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowship at the Bunting Institute, a fellowship that allowed her to begin her work on VINO. That fellowship was established in 1995 out of a concern about the low percentage of tenured women professors. Seltzer has proved that such programs allowing talented junior faculty to pursue their research away from the demands of administrative work and teaching can be useful. In fact, the demands of the tenure process are almost simultaneous with the demands with parenting. Programs which alleviate some demands on junior faculty during their prime parenting...
...played a major role in designing a new operating system, VINO...