Nicholas B. Dirks Journalist Profile

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Winners of the 2024 Tata Transformation Prize Celebrate Bold Innovation for India and Beyond

Nov 25, 2024 | uniindia.com | Nicholas B. Dirks

Three rising scientific stars in India are recognized for their solutions to the nation's urgent challenges in malnutrition and diabetes, energy storage, and a new RSV vaccine. , /PRNewswire/ -- Tata Sons and The New York Academy of Sciences today announced the second cohort of Winners of the Tata Transformation Prize.
Charting a course for science during Trump’s second term

Nov 22, 2024 | thehill.com | Nicholas B. Dirks

The 2024 presidential election marks the historic return of Donald Trump to the Oval Office. With this news, scientists and policy experts alike find themselves contemplating the implications his second term will have for the future of science.
2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Announced

Sep 12, 2024 | finanzen.net | Byd Aktie |Nicholas B. Dirks

A molecular biologist from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a chemical engineer fromUC Berkeley, and an earth scientist from Cornell University are this year's Laureates. , /PRNewswire/ -- For the second time, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences named three women scientists as Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Announced

Sep 12, 2024 | qubemark.com | Nicholas B. Dirks

A molecular biologist from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a chemical engineer fromUC Berkeley, and an earth scientist from Cornell University are this year's Laureates. , -- For the second time, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences named three women scientists as Laureates of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists.
Faculty-administrator distrust is making US universities ungovernable

Apr 24, 2024 | timeshighereducation.com | Nicholas B. Dirks

In his 1990 book The University: An Owner’s Manual, Henry Rosovsky quipped that academic governance is “a form of class treason, a leap from ‘we’ to ‘they,’ and a betrayal of our primary mission”. He was, of course, acknowledging the general joke about administration being the “dark side” of faculty life. But in the decades since Rosovsky stepped down as dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the joke has taken on more serious tones.
Ideas of the university

Apr 8, 2024 | nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Nicholas B. Dirks

When intellectual values are no longer paramount, other commitments—say to the professionalized disciplinary pathways that have congealed as the default means of university organization and governance—not only fill the vacuum but seriously limit our imagination.
Opinion | The End of Disenchantment and the Future of the Humanities

Mar 12, 2024 | chroni.cl | Nicholas B. Dirks

My father was born on a threshing day in July 1919, in the same Iowa farmhouse in which his own father had been born. The house had been built, in part, by his grandfather. Uprooted from northern Germany because of the military draft, the family had become deeply rooted in this small, close-knit community in America.
Opinion | The End of Disenchantment and the Future of the Humanities

Mar 12, 2024 | chronicle.com | Nicholas B. Dirks

My father was born on a threshing day in July 1919, in the same Iowa farmhouse in which his own father had been born. The house had been built, in part, by his grandfather. Uprooted from northern Germany because of the military draft, the family had become deeply rooted in this small, close-knit community in America.
US-China science pact must be renewed. Keep geopolitics from hindering scientific progress

Feb 16, 2024 | flipboard.com | Nicholas B. Dirks

US-China science pact must be renewed. Keep geopolitics from hindering scientific progressThe risk to science of abandoning the open collaboration among scientists from China and the US outweighs even the most critical views. This past …
US-China science pact must be renewed. Keep geopolitics from hindering scientific progress

Feb 16, 2024 | theprint.in | Nicholas B. Dirks

Cooperation between the two countries helped China to transition away from ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, thereby speeding up the closing of ozone holes in our atmosphere. The Science and Technology Agreement also enabled the sharing of influenza data used to devise yearly vaccines, which protect us all from new strains of flu. Also read: Decoupling, derisking, China + 1.