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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They] have made lifetime achievements through stunning discoveries, often in broadening, cross-disciplinary fields," she said, "Their work betters science as a whole and betters our daily lives in ways we often take for granted...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton Honors Whitesides, Wilson | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

What does an adequate education in science mean? Faculty members say it is hard to define and that it is difficult to quantify how much is enough science. Some are also careful to acknowledge that distinctions between different disciplines are often artificial...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hard-Core: A Look at Sciences in the Core Curriculum on the Eve of Policy Changes Affecting Class of | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

Besides the fewer science requirements in the Core, science concentrators often scoff that the courses offered are not very "science-y" in nature and that it is possible to graduate from Harvard learning very little about how the natural world works...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hard-Core: A Look at Sciences in the Core Curriculum on the Eve of Policy Changes Affecting Class of | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

Verba points out that pure math and science classes often require special knowledge and abilities that the social science and humanities don't, putting extra pressure on a non-science concentrator who has to take a standard chemistry or physics course...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hard-Core: A Look at Sciences in the Core Curriculum on the Eve of Policy Changes Affecting Class of | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...says that though he works with science concentrators, he often sees his students taking many humanities classes...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hard-Core: A Look at Sciences in the Core Curriculum on the Eve of Policy Changes Affecting Class of | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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