Word: todayã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...futures.We are also encouraged by the broad and integrative nature of the proposal. It recognizes that students need to know more than what they learn in Core courses, which all too often delve deeply into highly specialized and sometimes obscure subjects, in order to be truly educated in today??s world. It works to ensure that no Harvard graduate will be unable to understand and analyze something they read in a newspaper with sufficient depth.The proposal also recognizes that the real world isn’t defined by departmental lines. Presenting students with material in an interdisciplinary manner...
Designers who want to appeal to today??s young, fashion-forward consumers—instead of just “the elderly and J. Lo”—need to stop promoting this relic from the unenlightened past. Companies including Ralph Lauren, J Crew, and Forever 21 have committed to fur-free policies due to concerns over cruelty to animals, and students clearly know better than to wear the product of suffering for the sake of vanity...
...Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, originally created in 1988 to encourage scientists to track ecological changes at each location over a long period of time. The Harvard Forest has contributed to “our understanding of the legacy effects of agricultural clearing 200 years ago on today??s northeastern forests, as well as the effects of hurricanes,” Henry Gholz, the NSF’s LTER program director, said in a statement released this week. While the Harvard Forest also receives funding from other agencies, including NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy...
...most of Harvard’s history, the answer has been a resounding yes. The early seventeenth century College required tutors—for all practical purposes the equivalent of today??s professors—“to be with their pupils almost every hour of the day, and sleep in the same chamber with some of them at night,” wrote Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard’s pre-eminent historian. In many cases, student and tutor remained life-long friends...
...memoir, “One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way,” Kopp wrote that she started the company with a rallying cry: “We are a group of recent graduates who believe that today??s brightest, most motivated students of every race and academic major should join together to help the United States...