水均益和女儿水亦诗

而立之年有了“小公主” 水亦诗出生于1993年10月。那之前,因为工作原因,水均益几乎没时间过多关注妻子腹中的水亦诗,所以,当那个粉嫩粉嫩的小肉团被护士放到水均益怀中时,30岁的水均益竟然当场落下了眼泪。是夜,他安顿好刚生产完的妻子,点灯翻遍经书典籍,为女儿寻觅一个能完美表达他情感的名字。一夜无眠后,     

饱含浓墨写兰竹

近日,为国务院机关事务管理局西山楼绘制巨幅中国画《富贵常青》后,从北京回杭的中国民族书画研究院副院长、杭州兰亭画院院长金晓海,又忙开了。应天津杨柳青出版社之邀,绘制兰竹教材;承接了由中国美协党组书记、常务副主席刘大为领衔出版的《当代十大名家》画册的创作任务等。     

“庚寅年祭拜儒商始祖子贡大典”暨“全国首届子贡文化高峰论坛”在浚县举行

<正>2010年2月27日,作为河南鹤壁民俗文化节的重要组成部分——"庚寅年祭拜儒商始祖子贡大典"在河南浚县文庙举行,出席"全国首届子贡文化高峰论坛"的专家学者、子贡后裔和商企代表400多人参加祭拜大典。原河南省人大常委会副主任贾连朝、鹤壁市政协副主席冯用全、河南省社科院副院长刘道兴、全     

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<正>我与云飞兄在李先生引导下,驱车穿梭于合肥市新站区一片新开发的工业区内。这里道路笔直宽阔,田野里时不时耸立起栋栋楼房,而我们一行三人则渴望着、寻觅着清末重臣李鸿章故乡的遗踪。     

How Technological Platforms Reconfigure Science-Industry Relations: The Case of Micro- and Nanotechnology

With reference to the recent science studies debate on the nature of science-industry relationship, this article focuses on a novel organizational form: the technological platform. Considering the field of micro- and nanotechnology in Switzerland, it investigates how technological platforms participate in framing science-industry activities. On the basis of a comparative analysis of three technological platforms, it shows that the platforms relate distinctly to academic and to industrial users. It distinguishes three pairs of user models, one model in each pair pertaining to how platforms act toward and conceive of academic users, the other model regarding users from industry. The article then discusses how technological platforms reconfigure the science-economy divide. While the observed platforms provide new institutional contact and interaction between academia and industry, new research collaboration does not necessarily materialize in practice. In this respect, science-industry mediation by way of technological platforms does not make science-industry boundaries more porous. Instead, the declared openness of public research with respect to industry, in the case of technological platforms, may contribute to maintain public science’s autonomy.     

A Fish out of Water? Management Consultants in Academia

What happens when management consultants enter the academic arena and offer their services to universities? In the following article, we examine this question by drawing on findings from a qualitative study based on a series of 30 interviews with senior management consultants and academic managers in Germany. The aim of this explorative study is, first of all, to provide theoretically informed observations about the working mechanisms of management consulting in academia. A second, and related objective, is to contribute to the ongoing debate on the changing nature, role, and implications of managerial expertise and authority in higher education institutions. We begin our study by providing an overview of the literature on the changing nature of university management. Although these studies show a shift in the power constellation of universities from professional to managerial authority, we argue that they remain suspiciously vague as concerns the way academics and managers actually deal with this conflicting situation. By drawing on the insights of consulting studies, we then explore the stakes of consultancy in academic change projects and determine the analytical factors that will guide our qualitative analysis. Finally, we present and discuss the findings before concluding with more general remarks on the nature of academic management in German universities.     

Mediating Science and Society in the EU and UK: From Information-Transmission to Deliberative Democracy?

In this paper we critically review recent developments in policies, practices and philosophies pertaining to the mediation between science and the public within the EU and the UK, focusing in particular on the current paradigm of Public Understanding of Science and Technology (PEST) which seeks to depart from the science information-transmission associated with previous paradigms, and enact a deliberative democracy model. We first outline the features of the current crisis in democracy and discuss deliberative democracy as a response to this crisis. We then map out and critically review the broad outlines of recent policy developments in public-science mediation in the EU and UK contexts, focusing on the shift towards the deliberative-democratic model. We conclude with some critical thoughts on the complex interrelationships between democracy, equality, science and informal pedagogies in public-science mediations. We argue that science and democracy operate within distinct value-spheres that are not necessarily consonant with each other. We also problematize the now common dismissal of information-transmission of science as inimical to democratic engagement, and argue for a reassessment of the role and importance of informal science learning for the “lay” public, provided within the framework of a deliberative democracy that is not reducible to consensus building or the mere expression of opinions rooted in social and cultural givens. This, we argue, can be delivered by a model of PEST that is creative and experimental, with both educational and democratic functions.     

Virology Experts in the Boundary Zone Between Science,Policy and the Public: A Biographical Analysis

This article aims to open up the biographical black box of three experts working in the boundary zone between science, policy and public debate. A biographical-narrative approach is used to analyse the roles played by the virologists Albert Osterhaus, Roel Coutinho and Jaap Goudsmit in policy and public debate. These figures were among the few leading virologists visibly active in the Netherlands during the revival of infectious diseases in the 1980s. Osterhaus and Coutinho in particular are still the key figures today, as demonstrated during the outbreak of novel influenza A (H1N1). This article studies the various political and communicative challenges and dilemmas encountered by these three virologists, and discusses the way in which, strategically or not, they handled those challenges and dilemmas during the various stages of the field’s recent history. Important in this respect is their pursuit of a public role that is both effective and credible. We will conclude with a reflection on the H1N1 pandemic, and the historical and biographical ties between emerging governance arrangements and the experts involved in the development of such arrangements.