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...months pregnant, Sacajawea helped direct the historic 31-person expedition on a safe path from the Ohio River Valley to the Pacific, negotiated so that Lewis and Clark could buy horses for the journey, translated for them and taught them to survive a cold winter on the plains...
Higginbotham taught courses at both the Kennedy School of Government and in the Afro-American Studies department, where he taught Af-Am 195, "Race and the American Legal Process," this semester...
...Electronics Engineers, Brad Allenby, V.P. for environment, health & safety for AT&T worldwide, found Henn effective in helping technicians design with the environment in mind. In turn, Henn got Allenby to lecture twice: once at the Harvard Club and again for an industrial ecology course that Henn designed and taught for undergrads at Rutgers University. Also at the I.E.E.E., Henn met Clinton Andrews--now an assistant professor for urban planning at Rutgers, but at the time on the faculty at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Last year Andrews and Henn co-chaired a conference...
...Classes have been routine, although Meriwether says one teacher discussed slavery by lecturing about "the white devil," prompting everyone in class to turn and stare at Meriwether. "I was like, Daaamn!" he says. "I can understand why people come out of here angry if that's how they're taught...
...study of plants used by indigenous peoples is called ethnobotany, and Plotkin had been steeped in the subject ever since his college years at Harvard a decade earlier. He had taken a course taught by Richard Evans Schultes, a pioneer ethnobotanist who had spent years in the Amazon rain forest. During the first lecture, Professor Schultes showed a slide of what appeared to be three Indians in grass skirts and bark-cloth masks dancing under the influence of some kind of potion. "The one on the left has a Harvard degree," the professor said, pointing out how far some ethnobotanists...