Word: curriculums
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...Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...
...students during the course selection process, but the Guide’s influence extends far beyond the undergraduate population. Administrators, professors, and Teaching Fellows all look to the Committee on Undergraduate Education’s (CUE) annual publication for evaluation of the success of a course’s curriculum and pedagogy. Accordingly, this semester the CUE is studying how it might make what is currently a student-oriented volume more informative to instructors as well. Given the insufficiency of the current CUE Guide format to satisfy the needs of all those involved in undergraduate education, the CUE should continue...
...Dayton's five-semester option will save students on fees and living expenses, and enable them to hit the work world sooner than their peers in traditional programs. The school insists the new curriculum will be no less rigorous than the three-year program, but merely condensed and presented more quickly. Indeed, admissions criteria will be tougher for the expedited class to make sure applicants are up to the quickened pace. Some 80 fast learners are expected the first year. So if they can shave off a year from their studies, does that mean they'll pass along the cost...
...Damrosch is already the instructor of one of the most popular non-Core courses at Harvard, the 227-student English 185: “Wit and Humor.” Now Damrosch, who holds the Berenbaum chair in literature, could soon add another impressive credential to his intimidating curriculum vitae: this year’s National Book Award for Nonfiction. Damrosch is the author of “Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius,” one of five nominees for the prestigious award. Damrosch—who has already introduced hundreds of Harvard students to the world of Rousseau...
...According to a September version of the Gen Ed draft, obtained by The Crimson last month, the report recommends dropping the current Core Curriculum, with its 11 areas of study. The report proposes a general education system with three broad disciplinary areas—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology...