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...anything but the validity of the statement itself. “We’re reaching the point when we might be able to get an almost complete characterization,” Vadhan said. He expects to complete the project while spending a sabbatical at the University of California, Berkeley...
Knowles’ comparisons pit Harvard against peer institutions. At Yale, for example, 39 percent of professors are hard scientists—3 percentage points above the figure for Harvard. (Princeton, Stanford, and Berkeley are even more heavily weighted toward the hard-science side.) Meanwhile, just 24 percent of Yale faculty members are social scientists, 10 percentage points below the Harvard figure. (The other three schools’ faculties have even smaller social science contingents...
...Knowles doesn’t compare the Harvard student body to that of peer institutions. Just 42 percent of Princeton undergrads and 37 percent of Yalies concentrate in the social sciences, well below below Harvard’s 54 percent. Both Stanford and Berkeley boast far fewer (25 and 30 respectively...
...presented a bar graph showing last year’s ratio of 14.6 students per “ladder” faculty—tenured and tenure-track professors—as compared to 9.9 students at Yale (in 2004-2005) and 10.7 students at Princeton. Stanford and UC Berkeley, on the other hand, were shown to compare unfavorably with Harvard’s ratio...
...possible to design sealed structures that you could drop into any climate. "It gave architects the power to design anything, then hand it over to engineers and say, 'Here, you heat and cool it,'" says Gail Brager of the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California, Berkeley...