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Denmark's dominance of wind power was born in the Riso National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy. Riso, founded in 1958 to focus on nuclear research, is easy to miss on the road to the university town of Roskilde; only the test turbines on its grounds give away the campus's purpose. Turbine manufacturers from around the world test at Riso, where researchers are so expert at honing the aerodynamics of a blade that they've helped turn wind turbines from backyard mills to multi-megawatt farms...
When the financial crisis hit, HBS Dean Jay O. Light urged his school’s career services to take steps to better prepare students for the tough job market and to increase the number of recruiters on campus...
...voracious appetite.” Her work has shown both the importance of narratives in Darwin’s scientific writing and the importance of his theory of evolution to Victorian writers. English Professor Leah Price ’91, who invited Beer to campus, added that Beer’s work has shown that Darwin was an important influence on Victorian novelists like George Eliot. English graduate students in attendance were well-versed in Beer’s seminal work, “Darwin’s Plots,” which will soon be republished in its third...
...cushions are struggling to keep the lights on and the water running - literally. Morris Brown, a historically black school founded by freed slaves 22 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, found itself facing $380,000 in overdue water bills in December, prompting the city to dry up service to the campus. Without short-term loans to pay off some of its millions in debt, Morris Brown announced, it would have to close for the spring and possibly forever. Luckily, alumni stepped up to the plate: their contributions at two rallies in December and January - including $100 in quarters, donated...
...unfazed. He plans to raise $3 million a year for the next five years through donations and fees from local church groups and high schools that rent out vacant classrooms or the fallow football stadium in the off-season. Two band camps have already signed on to use the campus this summer. A change in Georgia law last year approved state financial aid for students at schools that, like Morris Brown, are on the road to reaccreditation; it's one reason Pritchett has set an enrollment goal of 1,000 students in 2014, which would translate to a significant tuition...