Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...recent weeks, several top Harvard administrators have expressed particular enthusiasm about Bloxham’s candidacy, the sources said. Last August, Knowles appointed Bloxham to serve as the physical sciences dean, choosing the geophysicist over Huth and other professors, two of the individuals said...
...Bunting Institute in 1978), more than 1,300 scholars from all of the academic disciplines and the creative arts have worked productively at Radcliffe. With the founding of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 1999, a decision was made to support science more robustly than ever before. Particular attention was given to attracting junior as well as senior science fellows. Under the leadership of Faust and Radcliffe Institute Dean of Science and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Barbara J. Grosz, that vision has become a reality. WHITNEY T. ESPICH Cambridge, Mass. April...
...Harvard’s resources for stem cell research. The new department will collaborate with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), which currently facilitates University-wide investigation in the field, but it will be better able to centralize resources for stem cell research than the Institute could alone, in particular gaining the power to hire its own faculty. The Corporation established the new department with impressive speed, despite its radical departure from the University’s traditionally decentralized paradigm. The University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE) only recommended the department’s creation four months...
...don’t know and ask them, “Do all black people speak in ebonics?” or, “Do all white people not know how to dance?” Instead, it’s more about getting to know about a particular aspect of a person’s life as you get to know them as a complete person...
...defensiveness that emerges during discussions of race is, however, much more alarming to me. More than anything, this blocks people from having straightforward conversations about race. This problem is not unique to one particular racial group. I have witnessed black people getting defensive when issues of race were brought up and not truthfully look at the issues just as I have seen white people...