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...research it will fund. As a combined project between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Medical School, the Wyss Institute will sit prominently a major nexus in the science world: bioengineering. One of the fastest growing majors in the United States, bioengineering represents a logical interdisciplinary trend that science—and academia in general—has taken in the last decade or so. The fusion of neuroscience and economics has produced the behavioral theories like “moral hazard,” which so many journalists cite in today’s newspapers...
It’s unclear what is most offensive about this troubling trend: the fact that they serve no function (they neither block UV rays nor allow effective vision) or that you have to jump continuously to see the loser next to you at a party...
...This trend might itself be aided by the changes to the landscape of college football. Last year’s tumultuous season in Division I-A, which saw the first two-loss national champion in the BCS era, has been partially blamed on nationwide scholarship reductions that made powerhouse programs like Alabama, Notre Dame, and Michigan less able to stockpile talented players, as they had in the past. The resulting trickle-down effect of talent has meant that upsets are more likely within Division I-A, as well as in matchups between Division I-A and I-AA squads...
...National Association for College Admission Counseling in examining the usefulness of admissions tests such as the SAT. According to Fitzsimmons, the SAT is no longer a good predictor of performance in college. But aside from the question of whether the SAT is an effective predictor, the SAT-optional trend is at least due in part to a favorite claim of social justice types: that the SAT discriminates against students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. For proponents of this claim, such a statement from the venerable Fitzsimmons is an exciting turn. However, there is simply a lack of compelling evidence to suggest...
...African development. So why are things changing now? "[As] John Githongo [Kenya's former anticorruption czar] says, 'The democracy genie is out of the bottle,' " notes Hania Farhan, the foundation's director of research. "There will be violent ructions and eruptions, like Kenya or Zimbabwe or Nigeria, but the trend is there, and it is remarkable. Africans want their rights and, increasingly, they are getting them...