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...Life goes on. I’ve always believed in the United States system and the alliance between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. and Islam and Christianity.” Alwaleed then started focusing his philanthropy on promoting education in both cultures. “The world of academia is the best way to handle the whole thing,” he said. Alwaleed first established centers for American studies at the American University in Beirut and the American University in Cairo, and then started thinking about creating Islamic studies programs at universities in the United States. After soliciting proposals...
...best forum is academia,” he said. “Teachers and professors from Israel and Saudi Arabia and the United States, of course, can talk and debate and loosen...
...Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program, understands that contemporary demands necessitate a strong department. “With the New York Times calling Film Studies the next MBA,” he says, referencing a March 2005 article, “Film Studies is becoming an important discipline in both academia and the “real world.” Harvard is hardly the first major American university to welcome Film Studies to its campus. Yale has offered the major since 1985—also founded by Rodowick—though Gerow admits “it took a long...
...Ignatieff came under attack last Friday over statements he made to the Harvard Crimson concerning his intentions to return to Harvard post-election. Ignatieff, who raised eyebrows when he left Harvard this September to assume a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto in Canada, took a break from academia almost two weeks ago to enter as a Liberal candidate for Canadian Parliament. “If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back,” Ignatieff told the Crimson last Tuesday, sparking angry controversy for declaring what Canadian media viewed...
...lighting technology on a silicon platform could "drive volume economics and mass market," says Mario Paniccia, director of Intel Corp.'s photonics technology lab. Researchers in business and academia are scrambling to create such flexible solar cells because existing solid silicon solar panels are heavy and unwieldy. Flexible, or conformal, solar cells could wrap around surfaces and pack easily for transport. A solar-cell liquid could even be painted...