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...make our requirements embody everything we would expect to see of an applicant to grad school,” said David Charbonneau, a professor of astronomy and the director of undergraduate studies.As a relatively small concentration to begin with, the Astronomy department noticed a “very disturbing trend?? of declining numbers of concentrators, said Jonathan “Josh” E. Grindlay, a professor of astronomy. “Astrophysics as a part of physics is becoming more exciting, and we thought, ‘We need an overhaul...
...Though the season-ending 2-1 loss at Columbia dashed the team’s hopes of finishing as high as second in the Ivies, the players feel confident that the team is on an upward trajectory. The late-fall fade represented a slight blip in an otherwise progressive trend??in 2006, the Crimson was 4-13, though 4-3 in conference play. “I think we were all disappointed, but all in all, I thought it was a pretty fun season,” co-captain Devon Shapiro said. Everything was looking up for Harvard...
...first proposed that surgery itself might be a cause of the relapse. In that paper, Retsky found that age was the decisive factor: pre-menopausal women were significantly more likely to experience relapses after surgery than post-menopausal women were. His new paper applies this theory to another apparent trend??the high mortality rates among African-American women afflicted with breast cancer. African-American women, Retsky found, tend to get breast cancer at a younger age than their Caucasian counterparts, exposing them to the negative effects of breast cancer surgery that he has theorized. Retsky?...
...from 655 in 2003; the number of burglaries dropped from 372 in 2004 to 327 in 2005; and the number of larcenies dropped slightly, from 185 to 180.A MATTER OF REPORTINGBut while the rate of thefts on campus—in the midst of a downward trend??might appear to be higher than at other schools, the discrepancy is due to a difference in the way the statistics are collected.“It’s simply a matter of reporting,” said Catalano. “We’re not required...
Unpredictable? Yes. But the programming is typical of a wider trend??particularly prevalent in college radio—known as “niche broadcasting...