Word: maths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future was crystal clear for Peter S. Manasantivongs '99. Well, it was at least translucent. The applied math concentrator had long since abandoned academic ties to his field and was set to pursue a master of philosophy and linguistics at Cambridge University. All that was left was the arduous process of locating a source for tuition funds, a benefactor of sorts...
Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor with an interest in local politics, says that these two long-serving politicians--Duehay has been on the council for 28 years, Russell for 14, and both have served as mayor at one time or another--form the spiritual backbone of city government...
Academically, Goff originally intended to study math and physics, but he decided that mathematical questions were not the ones he wanted to be answering. ("I didn't want to be the black math/science guy," he quips.) Instead, he enrolled in a graduate seminar with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 as a first-year, and after dabbling in gender studies, found his place as an Afro-American studies concentrator. He will head to Stanford next year to begin a Ph.D. in social psychology...
Michael Taylor, president of the non-profitcommunity group Boston 2000, says he hopes tofoster a working relationship between Boston'smedical professionals and the city's public schoolteachers to "be better prepared to teach [scienceand math] in an engaging...
...Powell also likes to discover unconventional partners. For instance, he gratefully accepted the American Trucking Associations' $100,000 but enjoyed even more kicking off Trucker Buddies, which pairs long-haul drivers with classrooms so that kids learn geography and math by tracking Macks across the country. In launching the partnership from an 18-wheeler, Powell flattened only two red cones...