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...expect to face a learning curve as they adjust to the new curriculum.“I think it’s a mistake to expect that every detail will be worked out and that one can design a program with perfect foresight,” said science historian Peter L. Galison, the Pellegrino university professor. “There will be modifications that will be introduced and that’s fine and good.”Charles S. Maier, the Saltonstall professor of history, said implementation will be a “long-term effort?...
Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt...
...hopes to lose many more. They mention that he hasn't asked the draft organizers to stop, the way he did before the 2004 election. They point out that in May, a group of former Gore fund-raisers met at the Washington home of his onetime chief of staff, Peter Knight. (Someone handed out buttons that said Al Gore Reunion 2007, but it was just a social event; Gore didn't attend.) They cite October as a good time for him to get in, since that's when the Nobel Committee announces its Peace Prize. Finally, they point...
...Digital Universe is an opportunity to publish their work and educate the public on topics they've spent years studying. It can be disheartening when scholars find inaccurate information on the Web in their topic area. "A lot of information is by those I call the invisibles," says Peter Saundry, Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment. "You have no idea who they are and if they are objective...
...Task Force on Teaching and Career Development—all groups chaired or co-chaired by Skocpol. The task force released a “compact” this past winter urging professors to give as much weight to teaching as they do to research. Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt.” “We don’t have a compact that we voted on,” Burgard said, adding that the Faculty knows the report “from The New York Times...