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Article: ANATOMY of a DEPARTMENT
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- University Affairs
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- November 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Assn of Universities & Colleges of Canada Nov 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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What better way to reflect on the changes in education and research over the past 50 years than to look at a single department - especially in the sciences - and what better place to do it than a university that opened its doors 50 years ago? Award-winning science writer and frequent contributor Michael Smith takes us on a biological history tour at York University.
IT'S 1959 -just six years since James Watson and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, ushering in an era that, in retrospect at least, can only be described as a biological revolution.
Elsewhere, the world turns much as usual. In Cuba, a young Fidel Castro has just seized power. In Ottawa, the ...