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...thing for an artist. It allows you to grow in ways that otherwise you wouldn’t.”These restrictions may, in fact, lay the foundation for a new artistic space, says Edward C. Barrett, Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. In this conceptual arena, artists have the chance to expand the horizons of their current media by focusing different perceptions on their work and utilizing new creative techniques.“My approach has always been that these are new narrative and rhetorical spaces, and there is no reason...
...works to create additional resources for student entrepreneurs ... and make them available to students and student groups,” Bottino wrote in an e-mail. The TECH Web site includes a database listing potential funding sources and entrepreneurial courses available at the College, graduate schools, and MIT, as well as links to business plan tips, funding advice, and other informational sites...
...College does not offer any classes in professional business skills. Undergraduates are also largely excluded from classes across the river at Harvard Business School, which would otherwise be applicable to their business pursuits. Most students seeking this sort of training, such as accounting or strategic decision making, flock to MIT for classes like the popular Corporate Financial Accounting. Since Harvard allows students to cross-register for these classes already, many students wonder why the opportunity for similar classes isn’t readily available on their own campus...
...Most students who want to learn about accounting go to MIT and students transfer credits for it here at Harvard, but because we don’t see that as being consistent with liberal arts we don’t offer that course to our students,” says David L. Ager, who teaches Sociology 159. Jeffrey A. Miron, the director for undergraduate studies in the Economics Department, was able to give a more practical explanation of the considerations involved. “Why don’t we have the business type of courses in economics? The simple...
...achievements as a scientist herself, but also has the broad perspective of scientific issues both nationally and internationally,” said Evelyn Hu, a professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at SEAS.After receiving her undergraduate and doctoral degrees in physics from MIT, Murray went to work at Bell Labs, where she started as a staff scientist in 1978, and eventually became senior vice president. There, she worked alongside many current SEAS faculty.“I have to disclose everything,” said Federico Capasso, a professor of applied physics at SEAS who served on the advisory...