Ask me anything: Joanne O’Meara

Physics World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 51-51
Author(s):  
Laura Hiscott
Keyword(s):  
Medical Physics ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
Tv Show

Joanne O’Meara is professor of physics at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She has a PhD in medical physics, and has done postdoctoral research at Tufts University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her outreach activities frequently include shows for schoolchildren and short segments on physics for the TV show Daily Planet.

Using Mammon for Righteousness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Marie Johnson
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Intellectual Achievement ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Chapter 5 explores what happened when women approached existing coeducational schools offering restricted gifts to benefit women. These donations either forced a school to open its doors to women or increased the number of women admitted by providing scholarships for women or erecting a women’s building or a women’s dormitory. Like the college founders, these donors believed that women were capable of the same intellectual achievement as men but found that many of America’s best universities resisted coeducation. The women in this chapter, including Mary Garrett, and Phoebe Hearst and the gifts they gave show how money could be wielded to force changes that would benefit women, in the form of access to education and professions formerly restricted to men. Moreover, coeducation at these schools, including Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley, was especially significant. If women were welcomed at these important institutions, they could demonstrate their intellectual and professional capabilities and equality with men.

scholarly journals Meet the APSA Council and Officers

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (01) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
New Members ◽  
Reed College ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

As noted in the October issue ofPS, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., the Marie E .and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, became APSA's 108th president on September 4, 2011, at the close of the APSA Annual Meeting. Eight new members of the APSA council were elected fall 2011. The new members are Paul Gronke, Reed College; Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley; Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A&M University; Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephen M. Walt, Harvard University; and Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester.

scholarly journals An Industry of R&D

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (10) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Harry Hutchinson
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Systems ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
University Of Munich ◽  
World Class ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
The Tropics

This article discusses how Singapore is amassing a brain trust to compensate for resources that nature didn’t provide to it. CREATE or “Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise” is one of the most ambitious projects of Singapore’s National Research Foundation. CREATE seeks to unite Singapore’s universities with world-class research institutions to study issues ranging from urban planning to medical treatment. The organization has partnerships with 10 foreign universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Munich, Cambridge University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. There are five research groups in CREATE’s partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research areas are infectious diseases, environmental sensing and modeling, biosystems and micromechanics, urban mobility, and low-energy electronic systems. The University of California, Berkeley, has two research programs with CREATE. One aims to improve the efficiency of buildings in the tropics, and the other is working on raising the electrical output of photovoltaic devices.

Teaching Creative Engineering: Education in Japan and the USA

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teruaki Ito ◽  
Alexander H. Slocum
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Design And Manufacturing ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
The University

This paper describes two approaches to teaching engaging creative engineering design classes. Both of these classes have evolved over many years using feedback from annual class reviews. One is the computer-aided design class, CAD-EX, at the University of Tokushima (UT) in Japan, and the other is the introductory design and manufacturing class, 2.007, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. Comparing these two classes conducted in two difference countries, this paper discusses how we created learning environments that engage students in a variety of design-related activities.

Where Do the Leads for Licences Come From?

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Jansen ◽  
Harrison F. Dillon
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Oak Ridge ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Technology Transfer Offices ◽  
Oregon Health ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The University

Knowing where licence and option leads come from can optimize the productivity in university technology transfer offices. This article presents the sources of over 1,100 leads for licences and options from six different institutions: the University of Florida; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; the Oregon Health Sciences University; Tulane University; and the University of Utah. Data from each of the six offices confirm the authors' suspicions that the majority of the leads come from inventors. The methodology used to gather the data is also described.

Maya’s Materialistic Longings Resulting in Alienation and Frustration: A Feminist Reading of Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
Dr. Tamanna
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Publishing Firm ◽  
Indian Writing In English ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Autobiographical Work ◽  
The University ◽  
Senior Secondary

Anita Mazumdar Desai occupies a much privileged place in the Indian Writing in English. She is known as an acclaimed Indian woman novelist who deals with the psychological problems of her women characters. She was born in 24 June 1937 in Mussoorie. Her father D.N. Majumdar was a Bengali businessman and her mother Toni Nime was a German immigrant. Anita Desai is working as Emeritus John E. Buchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anita Desai got a congenial environment to learn different languages in her own home and neighbourhood. She learnt Hindi from her neighbourhood. They used to speak German, Bengali, Urdu and English at their home. She learnt English at her school. She attended Queens Mary Higher Senior Secondary School in Delhi and she did her B.A. in 1957 from the Miranda House of the University of Delhi. So far is Anita Desai literary career is concerned, she wrote her first novel Cry, the Peacock in 1963.  With the help of P. Lal, they founded the publishing firm Writers Workshop.  Clear Light of Day (1980) is her most autobiographical work. Her novel In Custody was enlisted for the Booker Prize. She became a creative writing teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. When she published her novel Fasting Feasting and it won the Booker Prize in 1999, she came to the limelight. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times in 1980, 1984 and 1999 for her novels Clear Light of Day (1980), In Custody (1984) and Fasting Feasting (1999) respectively. She received Padma Bhushan in 2014 also. She has received Sahitya Akademi Award in 1937 for her well-known novel Fire on the Mountain. The present paper analyses the central female protagonist Maya’s materialistic pursuits which turn in a great catastrophe for her in the novel Cry, the Peacock.

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