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Francisco J. Perez ’06 doesn’t like statistics. As a Social Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality concentrator, math is not exactly his chosen field. But his dislike has nothing to do with math. “I volunteer at Suffolk Correctional Center, and it strikes me every time that—well, I look at my demographic, and as a young black/Latino male, I have more chance of being there than being here [at Harvard],” he says. As the child of Dominican immigrants, raised in what he describes as the ghetto...

Author: By Kenneth G. Saathoff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Fighter, Even in Failure | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

...inspired a couple of TV executives to try an experiment. The CBS drama Numb3rs, which stars Rob Morrow as an FBI agent and David Krumholtz as his crime-fighting mathematician brother, was sparked by a lecture Nye gave 10 years ago on the subject of turning kids on to math and science. Now the show's creators, husband and wife Nick Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, have enlisted their hero to guest-star Dec. 16 as an engineering professor from the fictional Cal Sci University. As the closest thing scientists have to a pop-culture ambassador, Nye has one script note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 12, 2005 | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...objectives was to bring these instruments out into the open,” Putnam said. “[But] when we first discussed this, I never envisioned such a prominent space and such well-designed space.” The gallery space is named after the Putnam family, whose math and science trust funded its construction. “The stars would not have aligned without the entire Putnam family...and the generosity they’ve shown to Harvard and now the gallery,” Brandt said. The gallery is open Monday-Thursday from...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Gallery Showcases Old Science | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...risk of developing lung cancer when they grow up. A fourth study found that the grandchildren of women who smoked while pregnant are more than twice as likely to develop asthma as children whose grandmothers did not. And environmental smoke, even at low levels, was associated with lower reading, math and logic skills in children and teenagers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A-Z Guide to the Year in Medicine | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...enough locals to take on. After watching a presentation, at an education conference, on Filipino teachers working in other U.S. school districts, George Duque, human-resources manager for the Baltimore public schools, decided to give that approach a try. "We've always had difficulty getting teachers in math, science and special education," he says. "We would go on recruiting trips, and we could count on one hand the number of available teachers. And they were at a premium, so they could pick and choose. We thought that this might be a better source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Looking Abroad For A Few Good Teachers | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

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