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Ford Motor Company’s top environmental official spoke yesterday on “Sustainability, Environment, and Safety Engineering?? as the final guest in this year’s Future of Energy Series.While hosting an automobile industry official like Susan M. Cischke in a series dedicated to “finding a secure, safe, and reliable source of energy to power the world,” may come as a surprise, the choice was an intentional effort by the Harvard University Center of the Environment (HUCE) to address all facets of this challenge.“We?...
...most recent push towards creating a special school for applied sciences began with Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard’s president from 1991 to 2001, SEAS Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti says. Venky notes that engineering??s status at Harvard has long been somewhat ambiguous...
...most recent push towards creating a special school for applied sciences began with Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard’s president from 1991 to 2001, SEAS Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti says. Venky notes that engineering??s status at Harvard has long been somewhat ambiguous...
...million low- and middle-income students receiving Stafford loans. Opponents of the bill have argued that providing blanket subsidies for college admission, without stipulation that the education received would be put toward bolstering America’s knowledge-based economy—through, say, the study of science or engineering??is a waste of money. To them, the ultimate $5.8 billion price tag for this bill is too high, even though it was pared from $45 billion in earlier versions of the proposal. Opening the halls of higher education, however, provides more than just an economic benefit: graduating...
...secondary fields is more likely to compel students down the path of credentialism. The second key reform of the Education Policy Committee was to delay concentration choice until the end of the first semester of sophomore year. But this would be inherently disadvantageous to concentrations in the sciences, especially engineering??and would not have served their ostensible purpose—to allow students to make more informed decisions. (These two reforms, alas, are the only two that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has approved.) The January Term reforms sought to create a period between the first...