Word: grads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most fourth-year grad students take only highly specialized courses and research their theses--there is little time to indulge an intellectual whim. For Bergvall, though, this course provides the historical context for her own research in Kikuyu. She has, in fact, applied for a Fulbright grant to study the language in Kenya next year...
...offer from the Winnipeg Jets, even though they encouraged him to stay an amateur and possibly play in the Olympics. He's currently playing for the Sherbrooke Jets of the American Hockey League, rotating in goal with the one net-minder ranked higher in the ECAC last year. Cornell grad Brian Hayward. "At first I thought I was the number one goalie." O'Connor says, "but Winnipeg's been really high on Brian O'Connor adds that he's been in a slump since Christmas...
...University of Chicago has been a leader in searching for ways to preserve graduate programs, and for good reason: its grad students outnumber its undergraduates 2 to 1 (6,000 to 2,962), even though enrollment in advanced-degree programs has decreased 41% since 1969. A commission issued a report last May calling for a "broader conception of graduate education" that would make the Ph.D. "less exclusively a vocational degree for academic teachers." The report also recommended that the formal course work take two years instead of three. Although the university has increased aid to graduate students from $4.7 million...
...Philadelphia, and an M.I.T. buddy, Bob Frankston, 33, worked day and night to develop a program for doing such number crunching on a small computer. The result was an electronic spread sheet: VisiCalc (visible calculator). Initially, VisiCalc got a lukewarm reception from computer stores. But when another B School grad, Daniel Fylstra, 31, who had just started up his own company, Personal Software Inc., stepped up the marketing, VisiCalc took off. Word began to get out about its enormous powers. With only a few presses of a computer's keys, VisiCalc could show what effects a change...
...your basic sophomore or freshman it's probably not that bad--but for me to be in a section taught by an undergrad is not at all appropriate," he says, adding that in a course of this nature an undergraduate has "vastly more limited knowledge than a professor or grad student would--there are definitely areas in which you just can't ask him a question...