Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep that up," Eisenman, 57, says today. "Peter Eisenman is ultimately a friendlier person -- kinder, gentler. People are going to like my buildings more." In fact, he suddenly has lots of plum commissions -- an office building in Tokyo, a research complex at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, the Columbus convention center. Meanwhile, he will bask this week in the celebrations surrounding the dedication of his first major building, the $43 million Wexner Center for the Visual Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus...
...efforts to increase the pool of minority and women scholars, Dean Spence earns an I for incomplete. While we should laud the university administration for successfully applying for the Mellon Foundation Grant, they have made no effort to use it. While this fund could have supported the term-time research of Black, Hispanic and Native American juniors and seniors this semester, FAS has yet to create an application for the grant. Meanwhile, the $350,000 languishes in FAS accounts...
Harvard should aim for progress, not regress. FAS could make the first progressive step by acting swiftly to create the administrative infrastructure to utilize the Mellon Grant. In addition, Dr. Mas-Collel should delineate his objectives as Dean in a written plan with goals and timetables. Lucy Haeran Koh '90 Chairperson Undergraduate Council Committee on Minority and Women Faculty Recruitment
...Harvard doing anything to increase the pool? The Mellon Foundation has given Harvard $350,000 to set up a program of research opportunities in which Black, Hispanic, and Native American students would work with faculty members in their fields of study. The goal is to encourage them to attend graduate school and eventually become professors. Then why hasn't Harvard actually done anything to implement this program...
...Armenia last December, which killed 25,000. "A substantial contributor to the much lower death rate in California was that California was conscious of the risk and made significant investments as a precaution," says M. Granger Morgan, head of the department of engineering and public policy at Carnegie-Mellon University. But after last week, earthquakes are going to be viewed as a much more persistent risk than they were before. That will force many communities to choose which risks to take seriously. Says Bruce Bolt, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley: "If you have only a certain amount...