Word: pipkin
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...convened yet this year because Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty, who is supposed to organize the committee's first meeting, has been ill, Nicolaas Bloembergen, last year's CRR chairman and Rumford Professor of Physics, said yesterday
...convene this year because Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty, who is supposed to organize the committee's first meeting, has been ill, Nicolass Bloembergen, last year's CRR chairman and Rumford Professor of Physics, said last week
There is wide agreement today that the General Education program lacks a clear sense of purpose and permits students to sample from too large and varied an assortment of courses loosely assembled under the broad rubrics of Humanitites, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. In the words of Francis Pipkin, professor of Physics and a former associate dean for undergraduate education: "The General Education committee feels that it is drifting aimlessly in a strange sea with neither a map nor a compass to guide...
...core curriculum has been another area where faculty/administration control has squelched student input. Last year, the Educational Resources Group published what Francis M. Pipkin, Baird Professor of Science and former associate dean of the Faculty, described as a "well thought out and coherent response to the report of the Task Force on the Core Curriculum." The response made some very valid objections to the task force's proposal...
...Alfred E. Vellucci says the Council and the review committee heard presentations by Harvard scientists George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology emeritus, Richard N. Goldstein, assistant professor of Microbiology, and Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology. They warned Cambridge citizens of the dangers involved in the research while Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty and chairman of the University's Committee on Research Policies, downplayed the potential dangers. "We didn't know who to believe," Vellucci says, adding that scientists who were "even Nobel Prize winners were arguing against each other." Because the job of the Council...