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...there life on other planets? David Charbonneau, a Harvard associate professor of astronomy and most recent recipient of the Alan T. Waterman Award, thinks there might be. Charbonneau is currently working on a project called MEarth, which aims to detect planets that are rocky and warm enough to sustain life—previous research has focused mostly on gaseous planets, because they are usually large and easier to view. The Alan T. Waterman award is specifically targeted to young professionals, requiring that the recipient be under the age of 35, a U.S. citizen, and have had a Ph.D. for fewer...
...Solving this problem would seem, at first, to be simply a matter of funding. If the endowment cannot sustain a major capital expenditure, then find a donor like Harkness. When schools like the GSAS are cutting their admissions by 10 percent, the College has no right to demand more comfortable housing—however crucial it may be to intellectual development. So why not turn to Rich Uncle Pennybags, some...
...Unlike Veblen, I do not argue that the exigencies of business have no place in a university. Such practical considerations are necessary to sustain centers of higher education as precisely that: institutions of learning. In this way, donations from men like Harkness and Rockefeller are crucial. Rather, the problem lies in an irrational glorification of these ideals—naming opportunities or a demand for unreasonable results, for example—that imposes the values and accomplishments of the philanthropist upon the beneficiary...
University President Drew G. Faust has repeatedly said that Harvard will sustain current levels of graduate student financial aid for the next year—a commitment that she has deemed one of the University’s top priorities—even at the expense of other programs in school operating budgets...
...Houses can sustain a 40-50 e-mail discussion without the posters lapsing into boredom (or the readers into self-immolation), but Adamsians can talk like few others can. While this week's flamewar over the House t-shirt probably won't go down in the annals of great threads along with the wrap-sandwich debate of early '09, it was marked by one of the "looser" e-mails we've seen go out to 200+ strangers. Some might say this intrepid writer was "having too good a time," others might flatly call it inebriation...