Word: professor
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...missing from this equation is a component never to be recreated in any electronic form--the intellectual buzz of a lecture hall, the students' awe at their professor's provoking ideas and the furiously scribbled note that captures that exciting moment of comprehension. Never can or will an Internet site provide the visceral excitement of learning, and alone will this crucial factor keep students attending class at the 62 universities affiliated with Wolf's Web site...
Entertainment is not the answer. The effects of StudentU.com do not call for any fanfare by means of trivia games, celebrity appearances or gorgeous blondes handing out the day's lecture guidelines at the lecture hall's back doors. But professors need to provide for their students something more than what can be condensed into a few pages of notes. Inspiration, awe, frustration, outrage--whatever the reaction, there must be an emotional relationship between the professor and the student created by the experience in the lecture hall...
...Professor Wins 'Genius Grant...
Juan M. Maldacena, the Cabot associate professor of physics, was awarded a five-year MacArthur Fellowship for $245,000 last Thursday for his work with string theory. Days later, he accepted an offer of tenure and will become one of the youngest professors in the department...
...time did any Harvard personnel violate Professor Thiemann's privacy," Rudenstine said in his statement. "The role of technology staff in this matter has been thoroughly reviewed at the most senior levels of the University, and it is very clear that there was nothing inappropriate or invasive about their actions...