Word: interconnectedness
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“I think the importance of interdisciplinary work is based on an increasing awareness of how interconnected a whole range of different knowledge has become,” said Homi Bhabha, the chair of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature.
Once upon a time, outbreaks of disease and environmental catastrophe could be swept under the rug. Man-made famines in Russia in the 1930s and China two decades later were scarcely known outside their borders. But more recently the world has become too interconnected for deception of that magnitude. In...
The more time that passes, the better the U.S. can learn from the experience of other countries. But as long as there are even small pockets of infection lingering anywhere in the world, an outbreak is always a threat. In a world as interconnected as ours, it may just be...
JILL McCORKLE. McCorkle, whose writing has been compared to the best of Truman Capote and Flannery O’Connor, will read from her new book Creatures of Habit, a collection of 12 interconnected short stories set in North Carolina. Taken together, the stories mimic the arc of a single...
Moves like these will help Harvard provide the most unique and valuable educational experience for its students. Only 8 percent of Harvard students graduate having studied abroad, while other schools average between 20 and 40 percent, according to Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth, chair of the...