Word: nalini
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...Nalini Thakur marches through the front door of a town house in New Delhi, crosses a courtyard where a woman is snoring on a rope bed, and arrives at a brick tomb that has survived for 450 years. Hidden away in this unlikely domestic setting, it's a splendid archeological curiosity?one of the first tombs to fuse Persian and Mughal styles in a way that prefigured the design of the Taj Mahal a century later. But as Thakur steps inside, she is assaulted by a stench that reveals the mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage...
...looked up a few of the studies. In one, former Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Nalini Ambady asked undergraduate test subjects to fill out CUE Guide questionnaires for several teaching fellows based on 10-second video clips filmed during actual section meetings. To an astonishing degree of accuracy, the subjects’ scores matched those that the TFs actually got from their real students at the end of a semester. Apparently, it takes real students very little time—seconds, really—to form long-lasting and detailed judgments about their teachers. Psychologists argue that...
Though she is slated to teach upcoming graduate and undergraduate classes, Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Nalini Ambady will move into a brand new lab in Tufts’ psychology department this January...
...They may have felt that everyone had to follow their major model—and that is not the path Nalini is following,” Rosenthal said last year...
...Nalini declined to comment on her plans for the future. And in the present, people are already mourning her loss...