Faculty Work as Philanthropy or Philanthropy as Faculty Work?

Biogeometry in Work with Faculty

In work with faculty Wei Wang, Jans Prins, Alex Tropsha, and Jack Snoeyink, they tested different graph representations of protein structures, including Delaunay tessellation graphs, contact maps, and chose almost-Delaunay graphs as being robust in the presence of coordinate perturbations. They developed a fast method to generate maximal frequent subgraphs directly using a tree representation, ...

Does Work Environment Affect Faculty Health Scores?

This study investigates the relationship between self-reported health scores with work environment and various components of a women faculty score at a Research 1 University in the Midwest USA. The study examines the differences between male and female faculty responses in the various components making up the women faculty score and also gender differences in self-reported health scores and wor...

Father, Son, Wife, Husband: Philanthropy as Exchange and Balance

This essay attempts to use exchange and balance theories to explain philanthropy. For exchange, such theoretical components as attractions or rewards, costs, barriers and alternatives are invoked to make sense of the biography of a Chinese philanthropist in Hong Kong who donated two schools to remember his father and wife. The balance theory was also used, which argues that people do not seek t...

Famine & Philanthropy

The leading Chinese-language newspaper in late nineteenth-century China, the Shanghai-based Shenbao, began in 1877 and 1878 to cover on an almost daily basis the famine engulfing North China. The news that millions of people were starving to death in the drought-stricken northern provinces shocked Chinese reformers and gentry philanthropists living in Shanghai and other parts of the Jiangnan re...

Health Related Philanthropy: