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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:57:51 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: "How Professors Think"
When making decisions about which of their peers' projects deserve millions of dollars in academic research funding, reviewers often consider both the diversity and the excellence of the proposals before them. This discovery is one of many in a new book, "How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment," by Harvard University sociologist Michèle Lamont.
Lamont's finding is somewhat unexpected, because diversity and excellence are often at ...
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