Word: peering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors (DAPA) has so far allocated some of the funds given to Harvard for HoCo parties in Pforzheimer, Quincy, and Winthrop, Campus Life Fellow John T. Drake ’06 wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...smiling every morning." Meanwhile, Amanda Sinks, 16, spouts verses from Timothy, Corinthians and James the way other teens recite rap lyrics. "There's nothing boring to me about reading the Bible every day," says Sinks, who became a Christian 17 months ago and counts a heightened ability to withstand peer pressure as one of the benefits. If things keep up this way, hanging out with God might even become cool...
Student satisfaction surveys that show Harvard undergraduates are generally unhappy with several aspects of their experience, and these surveys should not be taken lightly. The changes of the last few years—improved peer advising systems, new social spaces, and a more student-focused College administration—have only begun to bring the College up to speed with its competitors. Current students find themselves trapped within a dying core curriculum, with no clear guidance of how to navigate the changes currently underway. There is still no student center. Undergraduate advising leaves much to be desired. And, perhaps most...
...year span involving more than 18,500 women, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that women who took six or more multivitamin tablets a week reduced their incidence of ovulatory infertility by 40 percent. “Since these findings are preliminary, it is important that they undergo peer review (currently underway) so that the medical and scientific communities have a chance to scrutinize the study more closely and decide about their relevance,” Jorge E. Chavarro, a research fellow in the Department of Nutrition and an author of the study, wrote in an e-mail. Chavarro?...
...leaders have their hands in the till, which chokes off investment and enterprise on which development depends. Foreign aid donors have been trying to tackle this problem in the way they administer (and deny) grants, with some success, and African leaders have started a "peer review" system to compare notes, but both efforts are constrained by diplomatic proprieties. Ibrahim, who says he's been thinking for years about what he could do to help the continent that made him rich, knows his private money has the freedom to make a few waves. And while his prize has guaranteed...