"We are in some ways the tip of the spear for this issue," said Benjamin Grant, a city planner who is leading a study of the problem for the nonprofit San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, or SPUR.
"The promise is enormous," said Dr. M. Franklin Rose, an electrical engineer who is leading a study of driverless ground vehicles being done for the Army by the Board on Army Science and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences.
Edward Maguire, a criminologist at American University who is leading a study of attitudes toward the police and the law among Occupy protesters in six cities, cited an incident in which one research assistant at a demonstration in Washington in March "handed in her ID, turned in her clipboard and within minutes got arrested".
"There's a need to connect all the dots between these different outbreaks," said Dr. Ajay Singh, a nephrologist at Harvard Medical School who is leading a study of the epidemic in India.
"I hate the word 'sexting,' " said Andrew J. Harris, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, who is leading a study of the practice among adolescents to help develop policies to address it.
Car firms in Germany, such as BMW, are applying for banking licences so that they can follow Siemens's example—and perhaps also widen their customer-financing activities.Every euro countsJohn Thanassoulis, another Oxford economist, who is leading a study of European corporate finance during the crisis, sees signs of companies positioning themselves for a break-up of the euro.
Pase's collaborator at Swinburne, Con Stough, is now leading a study of how to prevent microbleeding through dietary supplements.
Preventing a tragedy is understandable and good, but we have to do this in ways that are sensible rather than just reactionary," says Kupchik, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, Newark, who is leading a study of discipline in American public high schools.
Yale's holdings in American silver have made it a leading center of scholarly study.
A leading member of the study team presented the results of this population-specific work.
