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...need to be leaders,” he said. Bernanke was a star economics student in his undergraduate years at Harvard, winning the John H. Williams Prize for the most outstanding senior in the department, as well as an award for his thesis, entitled “An Integrated Model for Energy Policy.” “We’re proud to count him among our graduates,” said Stock. “I’m delighted he’s going to be here.” After Harvard, Bernanke earned his Ph.D...
...elected head of any African country. “She has been a courageous fighter for democracy and transparency in Liberia,” said HKS Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, who issued the formal invitation to Johnson-Sirleaf. “She represents a role model for many of our students.” Swanee G. Hunt, former ambassador to Austria and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at HKS, called Johnson-Sirleaf “a beacon for progressive leadership across Africa and the world.” After growing up in Liberia?...
Cambridge announced in 2006 that it would pursue free wireless Internet access, but the city has since shelved such plans because, Hart said, “There is no business model now that is sustainable with the technology...
Hart said the Square network could serve as a model for other community organizations seeking to blanket their neighborhood with wireless Internet, but she said that the sheer number of units required with current technology would stymie a city-wide effort...
...College, however, does little to prepare students for this charge. While the current core’s QR requirement boast classes such as QR50: Medical Detectives and QR46: The Visual Display of Numbers, no class teaches a range of foundational topics—from statistical reasoning to model building—for the non-concentrator to learn. Introductory statistics courses, which are required by many empirical social sciences, cover the former, but leave one unacquainted with the calculus needed to build models. Math departmental courses, on the other hand, are heavy on calculus, usually so much so that students...