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Instead, Goldin describes her foray through the world of academia as one of constantly taking new directions. She says that ever since her days as a graduate student at the University of Chicago--what she terms her "best academic experience"--she has been exploring unknown territory...
...that seems unattainable during the academic year, many students will wait out the undergraduate crowds and stay in Cambridge for the summer. They work as undergraduate research assistants, seeking to gain experience in their fields and hoping to endear themselves to one or more of the elusive masters of academia...
That afternoon White and his class of 30 view a BBC interview with Genet. It's something the class has been looking forward to for weeks, and a strong buzz of intellectual fervor is in the air, academia at its best. But before running the video, White has an announcement. It seems that next week there will be someone in the class to evaluate...
...Harvard scholars--a mathematician who emigrated from the Soviet Union and a scientist credited with discovering the "Great Wall" in space--last weekend nabbed prestigious MacArthur Awards, one of academia's most coveted prizes...
Eventually, the Corporation released two listsof finalists, one with 69 names and one with 23,to select committees of professors and students inan effort to ensure consensus. The lists includednames from both inside and outside academia, fromboth Harvard and elsewhere. Among the names on thelonger list was that of future Secretary of StateGeorge P. Shultz, who was then director of theOffice of Management and Budget...