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...prestigious award provides funds to study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Canadian Named Rhodes Scholar | 12/5/2000 | See Source »

...economics concentrator, Shohet said she plans to enter the field of international relations and will study for a master's or doctoral degree in philosophy at a still-to-be determined Oxford college...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Canadian Named Rhodes Scholar | 12/5/2000 | See Source »

...understanding of alchemy: the glass flowers in the Natural History museum, past the Science Center on Oxford Street. Anyone who has ever been asked to spin a convincing argument from difficult material will appreciate the glassblowers' unbelievable skill in crafting plants from silicon. These are not the kind of flowers one might bring as a gift; they're Amazonian plants, butterflies, beetles, vegetables, stalks, grass, all startlingly lifelike...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Sense of Place | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Planning is underway for a Physical Science Building, to be located in the McKay-Cruft area, on Oxford Street to the north of the Science Center...

Author: By Melissa R. Brewster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Building Boom | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...aviary needs government approval and has not been without its critics, who question the initial $222,000 price tag and annual $44,000 maintenance cost. "We have to consider what is doctrinally right for the religion," says KHOJESTE MISTREE, an Oxford-educated Zoroastrian scholar and prime mover behind what could be India's first captive vulture-breeding center. "It may seem perfectly normal for some people to bury a body in the ground. To me it is repulsive that worms are eating a body for as long as 60 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ornithology: What Bombay Needs Now Is a Lot More Vultures | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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