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...dress for faculty and graduate students can be complex. Their robes include a black hood lined on the inside with the colors of the institution from which they graduated. Their hood signifies their previous degrees, with the longest, four-foot hoods denoting holders of doctorate degrees. Harvard’s color is crimson, while Yale’s is blue and Princeton’s is orange with a black chevron...
...This a very complex question, and we’re just beginning to get information,” Davis said. “We need to tease out whether [the autism risk] is associated with the age or the mother or father, or genetic risk...
...report also estimates that Harvard’s halt on the construction of the Science Complex in Allston will result in more than $860 million in losses in expected economic activity over the next three years...
Wheeler's complex web of lies began to unravel when, as a senior at Harvard in September 2009, he submitted a resume, a Harvard transcript, and an essay to apply for the Rhodes and Fulbright Scholarships. During the application review process, English Professor W. James Simpson suspected that Wheeler had plagiarized the work of Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Verner said...
Models, by design, are simplifications with clearly false assumptions. But the success of models lies in their ability to rationalize and often rightly predict the behavior of more complex real systems. Confused applications of the uncertainty principle notwithstanding, the author’s disdain for the “data-heavy, model-driven graduate student” is unjustified. Perhaps in his next piece, Mr. Barbieri can suggest an alternative to restrictive modeling in understanding and predicting phenomena...