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...Maskin said administrators chose to make the concentration requirements uniform by withdrawing the thesis requirement for the economics application rather than asking concentrators in other science applications to write theses...
...change, adopted in May by the Committee of Undergraduate Studies for Applied Mathematics, will "make the applied math concentration more uniform across its parts," said Berkman Professor of Economics Eric S. Maskin, co-head tutor for applied math. "But we still encourage students to write theses...
...There are certain fields [such as math and hard sciences] where the idea of an undergraduate writing a thesis doesn't make sense" because the issues are often too complicated for undergraduate research, Maskin said...
...However, Maskin said, "There is a real risk that he may stay there permanently and that would be a tremendous blow to our department...
...Maskin said Wednesday he had spoken to Whinston and that Whinston has not yet decided to join Northwestern's faculty permanently nor has he resigned from Harvard...