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...slot in the surface school. After graduating, McGrath flourished aboard the Navy's fleet of support vessels. She served on four different ships from 1983 to 1994, including an 18-month stint as a commander of a salvage ship. Onshore she earned a master's degree in education from Stanford. Still, by the early 1990s she was beginning to be worried that her career had run aground. "I'm a dinosaur," she remembers thinking, "because the combatant ships aren't open to women." That changed in 1993, when Congress made warships--with the still notable exception of submarines--accessible...
...schools granting online degrees has doubled in the past year, according to a study released last week. The distance-education craze has spawned cyber-only schools like Jones International University, whose Colorado-based operation offers online courses to 500 students in 30 countries. Traditional campuses are also getting wired. Stanford offers a virtual master's degree; the University of Chicago and Columbia, among others, have signed up with the Internet start-up UNext.com to create a for-profit online college. Saylor's announcement ups the ante considerably. He is banking on replacing the world's "10,000 average professors" with...
However, the next match will be against Stanford (10-0). The Cardinal is ranked No. 3 in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings, and for several weeks held the top spot. Harvard, in contrast, has dropped from Top-25 a few weeks ago to a distant No. 66. Stanford gives Harvard match-up problems up and down the singles lineup, but its biggest advantage comes from its top-ranked doubles team of Geoff Abrams and Alex...
Marcus received a teaching award while he was a professor at Stanford, according to Eric J. Heller, professor of chemistry and physics at Harvard...
...department decided to "attract Marcus away from Stanford last summer," Nelson said. Marcus had been an assistant professor of physics there...