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Most of the participants hailed from West Coast schools, Byrne and Meehan explain, such as Loyola Marymount, UCLA, and Washington. Many “big-time schools,” as Meehan suggests, were represented as well, as kids from the University of Texas, USC, and LSU participated. But, admittedly, those schools didn’t send their best players...
...Past winners of the prize include Freeman J. Dyson, physicist and mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Charles H. Townes, UCLA professor and Nobel laureate for physics. The 2006 winner was cosmologist John D. Barrow, who has written in depth on the connection between life and the universe and what scientists may not understand about matter, space and time. Judges of the prize, awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, include leaders from the fields of science and religion...
...that Akpan’s case has no precedent, and a decision either way would require careful consideration. Professional sports culture remains a touchy subject at Harvard, which prides itself on the amateurism of its athletes (one reason why neither the school nor its Ivy rivals offers athletic scholarships). UCLA, on the other hand, which beat Harvard in the second round of this year’s NCAA Tournament, lists 24 professional soccer alumni at home and abroad on its school website...
...forced Faust to become something of an academic jack-of-all-trades—an asset which will help her as the University seeks to expand its science initiatives. “Radcliffe is not one department,” says Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn. “She knows people in just about every department on campus because they have had intersecting interests with her and people in the Radcliffe Institute.” “There’s no question in my mind that...
...spring after a series of bruising public confrontations with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.“If there are going to be problems they are certainly not going to be the same kind of problems,” Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn, said last month.A ‘SUBTLE SKILL’As president of a large and decentralized university, Faust will have to find means to build consensus among its many factions, an area in which Summers did not succeed—even...