McNutt's suggestion that the proposed ten-year contract is two-way street, freeing attractive faculty to move as they see fit, shines less brightly when one considers that at present senior tenured professors are commonly lured away from their current positions with the promise of higher pay, more facilities, better colleagues, or a more prestigious environment.
But there's also an element of showmanship in succeeding in a prestigious environment -- if he can't go up the Amazon with a father he might as well go to Cambridge at the age of 12. What he doesn't entirely allow for is the way gaming that system can lend itself to gaming the social system; intellectual brilliance is no guarantee that successful gamesmanship will not be used unscrupulously.
He was similarly influential when the prestigious Society for the Environment was launched in 2002.
In my experience, the "publish or perish" attitude of the more "prestigious" universities creates an environment that is ranked solely by outputs, and their merits.
For several years I have helped judge the Conoco-funded St Andrews prize for the environment - a prestigious award for innovative environmental activities given out every year at the ancient Scottish university.
India's education system is dominated by Indian students and only prestigious institutions offer an international environment.
Ms. Lopata received the prestigious Goldman Prize for protecting the environment for her quest to preserve traditional farms.
In 2012, Delhi's prestigious Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) tested Singrauli's water supplies, along with fish from local reservoirs, human blood and hair samples.
The "case" consisted of a group of 34 residents currently in training in 6 of the 8 main groups of specialties at the Karolinska University Hospital, a prestigious, urban, research-dominated training environment.
Landfill Harmonic, a film that follows their journey, won a special mention in the environment award at the prestigious Sheffield Doc/Fest last month.
After founding Sustainable South Bronx, a nonprofit group focusing on work force development and environment, Ms. Carter won a prestigious $500,000 grant in 2005 from the MacArthur Foundation, which called her a "relentless and charismatic urban strategist who seeks to address the disproportionate environmental and public health burdens experienced by residents of the South Bronx".
