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Although their program serves as a mini-freshman year, it does not include a sojourn in the Yard. Instead, the students are randomly scattered into blocking groups throughout the Houses. Phil A. Ernst, a spring ’04 transfer from Caltech, lucked out—he was placed in the Adams Senior House as a sophomore. Ernst says he is happy with his living arrangements, but points out that some transfers end up in less than desirable housing because that’s all there is. Jukay Hsu, a spring ’04 transfer from Columbia, said that...
...read the book and seen the movie, but where do you go if you want to see the original The Girl with a Pearl Earring, the Johannes Vermeer painting that inspired both? Art enthusiasts can go to www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer where Caltech professor Roy Williams has gathered a wealth of information about the artist, including a clickable map of the worldwide locations of all 34 viewable Vermeer paintings. To see The Girl with a Pearl Earring, you will have to travel to the Netherlands. --By Lisa McLaughlin
Although Harvard researchers at the CGR will lead the project, they will collaborate with scientists elsewhere within the University as well as at Stanford, Caltech, the University of Calgary, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel...
...past eighteen years, Harvard has placed first 14 times, a record unparalleled by any other university, even MIT and Caltech. In the other four years, Harvard consistently placed in the top five. Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies, instructor for the intense first-year Math 55 and a three-time Putnam Fellow, ascribes this performance to the quality of the math students that matriculate at Harvard, laughing that “the people who can take the most credit for that is the admissions office...
When he got to Caltech as an undergraduate and saw that academic statistics was a viable career, he says, baseball remained at the forefront of his budding statistical mind. “Baseball helped me understand statistics and relate it to a system I knew well,” he says. As a professor now, Morris still uses baseball examples in lectures to illustrate ideas...