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A `Best-Kept' Secret Broadening Experience Women's Work Robotiquette What's In A Name?l For Returning Scholars Bigger, Better Shrimp Several attendees at--and one recipient of--the 1993 John Scott Awards, presented annually by the Board of City Trusts of the city of Philadelphia (see People, page 22), voiced concern over the lack of publicity for the award. At one point during his acceptance speech, honoree Richard E. Smalley, Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry at Rice Univers

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The Princeton, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers post-resident physicians an opportunity for two years of graduate-level study and research in non-biological sciences important to medical-care systems through its Clinical Scholars Program. The program covers such disciplines as biostatistics, medical information sciences, anthropology, the social sciences, law, ethics, and the humanities. Applications, including on-site interviews with participating institutions, must be completed between January 1 and April 1. For information, contact program assistant Sheila Libassi, Clinical Scholars Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, P.O. Box 2316, Princeton, N.J. 08543; (609) 243-5919.

Just in time for the holidays (or the spring semester), the National Women's History Project has come out with another in its series of educational materials, this time for children in grades four through eight. Science is Women's Work: Photos and Biographies of American Women in the Sciences is a 56-page booklet profiling the lives and work of 26 prominent women ...

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