Word: fostering
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...About 99.9 percent of the nominations are theses, but they don't have to be theses," said Deborah Foster, the assistant dean for undergraduate education and director of the Hoopes Prize...
This year about 160 nominations were considered for the prize, said Foster. Roughly one-third of the nominees were selected as winners...
According to Foster, the evaluation committee is made up of three Faculty subcommittees to judge submissions in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Each project is evaluated by at least two people on the appropriate sub-committee. The final decisions are made by the committee as a group...
...highest objective was to foster a sense of community amongst the Korean students at Harvard. I had hoped that most Korean students could participate in KSA activities, share the Korean culture, and together get involved in any capacity on issues that affect Koreans politically," Choi says. "Some people use the term KSA to refer to a social clique, a Korean drinking group; it was never meant for that purpose," he says...
...this, of course, revived talk about Burton's idiosyncratic investigatory techniques, the most famous example being his assumption that by shooting at pumpkins in his backyard, he could prove that Vincent Foster was murdered. (Burton did not anticipate that the pumpkin-range episode would make him look ridiculous, some students of his behavior believe, because he failed to realize that in humans other than himself what's inside the head bears no resemblance whatsoever to what's inside a pumpkin...