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...often grabs unsuspecting friends for a dramatic tango across barroom floors. And, like a boyish backpacker, he worries that a long-anticipated camel trek across Afghanistan may seem irresponsible now that he needs to knuckle down to his job (which involves, among other things, raising $45 million to endow his ngo for preserving Afghanistan's heritage, the Turquoise Mountain Foundation). But when it comes to describing the project that so impassions him, he's all statesman: "This is a development project that says 'we respect your traditional culture, and we are going to put our resources and our technology...
...reaching as determining a career on Capitol Hill or one distributing political flyers on Beacon Hill—choices that weigh heavily on the advice and support of their advisers.BIG BROTHER, BIG SISTERAccording to the creators of the Peer Advising program, it was hardly the intention to endow these fellows with so much responsibility.“A Fellow is intended to be a big brother or big sister, somebody to help you, so there’s really no ‘authority’ involved,” Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere says.Then what exactly...
...sciences. That’s not to say that non-science departments will get no new professors; they will be able to replace departing and retiring faculty to maintain their size and may be able to expand their size if they are able to woo a donor to endow a chair. But most of the money FAS is pouring into the expansion will, according to Knowles, go towards hiring new scientists. Knowles justifies this by comparing Harvard to peer institutions, which reveals that Harvard lags behind in science hires...
...most of the net growth in the next few years…will be in the sciences and engineering.” Harvard will only continue to appoint new social science professors to replace the ones who are departing. Of course, if wealthy donors want to endow professorships in the social sciences, FAS won’t turn them down. But Knowles’ message to the overcrowded, understaffed social science departments was clear: Relief...
...most elusively, we are learning something about consciousness itself--the ghost in the neural machine that gives you the sense of being in the moment, peering out at the world from the control room behind your eyes. If we can identify that cognitive kernel, can we one day endow a machine with it? But by isolating such a thing, do we in some way annihilate...