Word: whitehead
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Ever since the University's governing boards affirmed their policy of selective divestment last fall, officials have said the matter was closed. Overseers President John C. Whitehead has reiterated that stance throughout the fall...
...pretty full agenda," Whitehead said yesterday. But he added, "If anyone raises an issue, we will certainly discuss it if we have time...
Tutu did, in fact, miss the first Board meeting in October. Just last month, he said in a letter that he would be unable to visit the United States at all this year, according to Whitehead...
...were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute, who won in 1975 the prize for research in the same field: "Their work established a new paradigm for thinking about cancer...
Perhaps the most celebrated case of scientific conduct (or misconduct, depending on whom you talk to) is the accusations that a 1986 article in Cell magazine contained fudged data. Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel prizewinning director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT, was one of six authors of the research paper on genetic transplants. Although Baltimore was never formally accused of any wrongdoing, a congressional investigation found the scientific equivalent of a smoking gun in the laboratory of one of his co-authors. Their research project was being funded in part by a grant from the National...