December 1999/January 2000 In This Issue Ideas for Sale Will technology transfer undermine the academy or save it? Growing Pains Resources, competition, and our institutional character "When the focus shifts to the bottom line, basic research always takes a hit." "Technology transfer is just a subset of knowledge transfer." New: "If technology transfer offers a solution to the funding crisis in higher education, it does so only in a very limited way." An interview with Lanny Liebeskind, Professor of Chemistry Show me the money . . . What is applied research? How does funding work in the sciences? Overheard on campus Riding the Post-Tenure Tiger T'ai Chi, teaching, and a confession of ignorance By Kate Nickerson, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and English Department This Is Not Your Father's Millennial Angst--Or Is It? Emory faculty contribute to the explosion of interest in millennial studies By Amy Benson Brown Shaping a Citizen Faculty Cultivating collegiality in the research university By Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins Endnotes A selected calendar of events and deadlines

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