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Many of the broad themes for liberal education stressed in the report’s introduction—including internationalization and the sciences??were first outlined by Summers in a Commencement address last year. Summers told The Crimson last month that he was “pleased that many of the things that I have thought of as particularly important, [such as] broadening the expectation of science for non-scientists, internationalization, increasing faculty-student contact, having courses that survey broad[ly], having knowledge that represents knowing rather than ways of knowing, the emphasis and recognition of the importance...
...April, the Microbial Science Initiative was finally announced publicly after two years of planning, initiating what will be a massive collaboration of five departments—biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and earth and planetary sciences??to research bacteria at a microscopic level...
Acting Life Sciences Dean Douglas A. Melton will become chair of the Life Sciences Council in a “dean by committee” arrangement, concluding a nearly year-long nationwide search for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?? (FAS) final divisional dean...
...Women are slightly more inclined to study humanities, men are a little more inclined to do social science, and a few more men do natural sciences??not by much though,” McGrath Lewis said. “I think the main thing is to make the point that you can choose among them and we meet all kinds of needs...
...guiding vision,” said Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie A. Buckler at the meeting. She later wrote in an e-mail that such a vision is essential in defining “what a good ‘liberal education in the arts and sciences?? should ideally look like today in its diverse individual incarnations...