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...venturing beyond our department and exploring the connections between our area of study and another is a daunting task. By junior year, with a bit of pluck and brass, most of us have made a few alliances with faculty members. But it is with rare exception that students take seminar-style courses outside our concentrations and make closer connections with members of the senior faculty not in our department. Thus, in the classroom at least, we do not encounter many voices from outside our field...
...conference included an “AIDS Advocacy 101” seminar which aimed to teach students specific advocacy tactics and allowed them to put their lessons into action by acting out a lobbying scene...
...Stanford, Yau has taught both graduates and undergraduates, and runs a research seminar that regularly attracts distinguished speakers...
Harris said he expects Yau’s first year at Harvard to involve teaching a graduate seminar in the fall and a 100-level mathematics course in the spring...
...education, no longer as a recipient but as a formidable giver. "It's what I do for fun," he chuckles. Three weeks ago, the philanthropist clearly was having fun at a ceremony at New York City's eclectic New School for Social Research. The school's tiny (195 students) Seminar College, which offers a program of reading in the classics steered by seminars, was being renamed Eugene Lang College. And why not? Lang had made a gift to the institution of a cool $5 million because he had spotted something that he liked. "I see a college whose focus...