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...we’re not too sure.” When the two returned a week later, their report was baffling. Metabo had nothing to do with the talk. Apparently the University of Tokyo was interested in the Food Literacy Project only in terms of its ability to foster a community. Professor Yasushi, the sociologist who arranged the Food Symposium, has been closely working with Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67 to create a more integrated campus for first-years. Food, Professor Yasushi seemed to believe, had the power to unite. He hoped that establishing...
...grant from the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program for work on the aero-elasticity of flapping wings of micro aero vehicles (MAVs). The Air Force program, which provides around $100,000 each year for a three-year period, hopes to foster creative basic research in science and engineering and enhance early career development, according to Spencer T. Wu, the program’s manager. “We hope to increase opportunities for young investigators to recognize the Air Force’s mission and the related challenges in science and engineering...
When it began in 2003 under then-Dean Robert C. Clark, the capital campaign had a fundraising goal of $400 million to foster the expansion of the faculty, facilities, and financial aid program. The capital campaign ended on June 30, surpassing its target by nearly 20 percent...
...worry about a culture that devalues life,” Bush said in an announcement limiting funding to a handful of existing stem cell lines. “As your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world...
There is one thing, however, that works in Indignation. Like Updike, Roth could be said to belong to the literary Me generation: writers (Norman Mailer was another) who traffic in thinly veiled alter egos, whose own internal dramas are their primary source of material. David Foster Wallace called them the Great White Narcissists, and it's true: Portnoy's awareness of the world around him more or less stopped at the end of his erect penis...