Word: presentation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During a symposium last night in Harvard Hall, four scholars from prominent universities presented research that stretches the limits of traditional economics with modern scientific advances. The two-hour event—entitled “A Symposium on Economic Decision Making”—focused on the nascent field of neuroeconomics, a combination of neuroscience, psychology, and economics that challenges classical assumptions of economic theory. “Economics is actually an abstract, profoundly wrong model of human behavior,” said Drazen Prelec ’78, a professor of management science at MIT, later...
...Archive hosted a conference this week entitled “Hiphop Worldwide: More than a Nation,” which brought together hip-hop artists, scholars, DJs, and authors. Founded in 2002, the mission of the Hiphop Archive is to gather resources for the research of the past and present of hip-hop culture. “The Archive opens up the doors to the idea that hip-hop is a respectable and important academic field,” said Akshata Kadagathur ’11, an intern at the Archive. “It’s a great...
...most progressive on campus, said she has experienced relatively little discrimination as an ambitious woman. Despite this variation, all three have spoken to the importance of getting more women involved in politics and leadership on campus. But thus far, their experiences as leaders seem to be more representative of present attitudes toward woman leaders than emblematic of a shift in perspective brought about by their election.ANDREA R. FLORESFlores is the first female UC president in six years—putting her at the helm of the organization that has been slowest among the three political clubs to make strides towards...
...drinks water when they are supposedly drinking wine—feel oddly conspicuous.Such inconsistencies are quickly forgotten, however, in the midst of O’Gara’s complex and constantly changing stage pictures. Also thanks to O’Gara’s direction, the transitions between present and past throughout the play are clear and smoothly executed. In one moment, Clay and Kelly are talking to Mr. Hadid about the price of the dinner table, while in the next the audience is transported into the middle of their terrible Thanksgiving dinner.Despite the clarity of these temporal shifts...
...defamation of walls and monuments, racial profiling, and discriminatory layoffs all stem from the ignorance present in our shared community. We must realize that attacks on individual groups are fundamentally divisive and tear at the fabric that holds our community together. These incidents are thus not only an assault on our human dignity, but also an assault on our community as a whole...