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Earlier this month, President Bush announced his decision to limit federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to existing stem cell lines. Since then, there has been tremendous media attention on this area of scientific inquiry, and the resulting moral, ethical and societal considerations. We…

Friday, September 28, 2001 Imagining Mind/Imagining Science Symposium Program in Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine

   

 

February 28, 2002 Did Comparative Linguistics Prepare the Ground for the Holocaust?  

Introduction by Carol Neely, Professor of English For centuries, plays like Othello and The Tempest have spoken about race to audiences across the globe. But are concepts like 'race' and 'racism' appropriate to analyze communities in early modern Europe? Or is it that early modern vocabularies have…

Do the demands for heightened security in a post-9/11 world encroach upon our liberties and freedoms as members of a civil society? Can we protect ourselves as a country from future terrorist attacks without restricting the rights of individuals, particularly those who belong to racial and ethnic…

For a price, it is possible to acquire unearned academic degrees from non-existent universities that market diplomas over the internet. The support services offered by these vendors include "verification" of credentials on behalf of clients and the creation of letters of recommendation written by…

The first pentavalent combination vaccine for pediatric immunization gained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in December 2002. This vaccine provides a significant breakthrough for making additional space available in the crowded National Childhood Immunization Schedule. It also provides…