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As part of the team that created the first electronic digital computer, which weighed 30 tons, Arthur Burks helped usher in the modern technological age. ENIAC (for electronic numerical integrator and computer) was invented at the University of Pennsylvania as a replacement for the 75 women who were calculating trajectories...
At Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith got a lot of exercise.
Smith spent the bulk of the afternoon discussing his Annual Report, which summarized progress made at the College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, developments in the Faculty and with the administrative staff, and the state of FAS finances between September 2006 and February 2008.
History professor Charles S. Maier ’60 noted the disparity between high concentrator to faculty ratios for undergraduates in the social sciences relative to other disciplines. Maier said that the concentrator to faculty ratio in the social sciences was nearly 10:1 while the ratio for the humanities...
“We’re still attracting a great number of students to the social sciences,” Maier said. “But will these numbers be borne in mind with respect to hiring [of new faculty]?”