Prof. John L. Tarpley: treat students as individuals, peers and young colleagues

Peers Coaching Teaching: Colleagues Supporting Professional Growth Across the Disciplines

Young Children Treat Robots as Informants

Children ranging from 3 to 5 years were introduced to two anthropomorphic robots that provided them with information about unfamiliar animals. Children treated the robots as interlocutors. They supplied information to the robots and retained what the robots told them. Children also treated the robots as informants from whom they could seek information. Consistent with studies of children's earl...

Response to Luca L Fava and colleagues.

W e read with great interest the letter of Fava and colleagues, who challenge the conclusions of our article published in EMBO Reports (2013) [1]. Our work described a role for Beclin-1 in chromosome congression and outer kinetochore assembly. We demonstrated that this unexpected role of Beclin-1 is independent of its association with the PI3K-III complex and its well-documented role in autopha...

John More Young

and at Netley, he took the first place, and carried of all the prizes, viz., the Herbert Prize, Martin Memorial Gold Medal, Montefiore Medal, and Parke's Memorial Bronze Medal. At the close of the Session at the Army Medical School, Sir Galbraith Logan, K.C.B., in handing to Dr. Young, in succession, all these prizes and medals, made some happy references to t( the special advantages that might...

Which Peers Matter ? the Relative Impacts of Collaborators , Colleagues , and Competitors

Many economists believe knowledge production generates positive spillovers among knowledge producers. The available evidence, however, is mixed. We argue that spillovers can exist along three dimensions: idea, geographic, and collaboration space. To isolate the key channel through which knowledge spills over, we use a unique data set to examine the impact of a large post-1992 exodus of Soviet m...