Although the show includes modern masters like Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian, as well as academic giants like Bouguereau and Gerome, many of the 240 works are as idiosyncratic and obscure as the Sorolla.
The most compelling argument in favor of hospitalists, who are now in 5,000 institutions, from academic giants like the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania to small community hospitals to innovators like the Mayo and Cleveland Clinics -- is that they are there all the time.
It says that the British state is prepared to forgive historical homosexual acts providing they were performed by a national hero, academic giant or world-changing innovator.
The government frets about the failure of a Chinese scholar ever to win a Nobel prize in science (although the country has a laureate for literature and an unwelcome winner in 2010 of the Nobel peace prize, Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned dissident).Pulling some star scholars back from abroad will not be enough to turn China into an academic giant.
Academic giant INSEAD is joining as the official academic partner.
That story is the negotiations, more than 50 sessions so far, for the first labor contract between the UC postdoc union, the nation's second, and the academic giant that employs perhaps 10% of all the postdocs in the United States.
In the surprisingly readable academic tome Giant Pandas: Biology, Veterinary Medicine and Management, there is a long list of reasons why we might want pandas in captivity, including their ability to inspire, educate, act as an insurance policy against extinction, and raise conservation cash.
More were soon discovered, and 122 nonsense conference papers were ultimately retracted by Springer, the academic publishing giant based in Heidelberg, Germany, and by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, based in New York City.
Now academic researchers, drug giants and fledgling biotechs are opening up a new arsenal: genetic tracking to isolate flawed genes; new drugs to quell inflammation or raise "good" cholesterol; still other chemicals aimed at the mysterious and widespread disorder known as "Syndrome X" (see "Silencing 'Syndrome X'"); and new techniques to inspect plaque inside the arteries (see "Peeking at Plaque").
In fact, distributed computing is a powerful idea that most of the computer industry -- from academic laboratories to industrial giants -- is chasing.
Shortly after she went on to win the coveted Israel Defense Prize, interned at Microsoft, earned a black belt in karate, learned salsa dancing, acquired 10 patents, launched the start-up SalesPredict, and completed her PhD all by the age of 27, earning her academic recognition from tech giants like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook.
