Frances Hodgkins goes to Market

The Hodgkins Fund Prizes

Mary Frances Lyon (1925–2014)

Mary Frances Lyon Mary Lyon was one of the most notable geneticists of the 20th century. She is renowned for her discovery of X inactivation, an early example of epigenetic gene regulation, but she alsomade fundamental contributions to the entire field of genetics. Mary was born on May 15, 1925 in Norwich, in the rural east of the United Kingdom. She was the first child of Clifford James Lyon, ...

Mr. White goes to Market - Running Speech and Citation Tones in a Southern Thai Bidialectal

The nature of running speech tones and their relationship to citation tones are examined for two varieties of Thai Standard and Southern spoken by a bidialectal female. It is shown that representative tones from these varieties are readily extracted from running speech and that their mean values generally relate quite straightforwardly to contemporaneously elicited citation tones when control f...

Groupware Goes to School

Groupware for cooperative work (CSCW) and for collaborative learning (CSCL) have many important commonalities as well as different requirements. By transforming a generic CSCW platform into an environment to support a particular vision of education as collaborative knowledge building, we saw how functionality had to be adopted, transformed and refined to meet the specific educational social set...

Discrimination Goes to School

We investigate the extent to which racial discrimination, in the form of the biased assessment of students, is prevalent within Brazilian schools. Robust evidence is drawn from unique data pertaining to middle-school students and educators. We nd that even after holding constant performance in blindly scored o cial tests of pro ciency, teacher-assigned Math grades su er from bias. Relative to a...