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...point was to offer students a safe environment to practice networking with alumni who really do want to help them learn,” said OCS Associate Director Susan M. Vacca...
...reason, people tend to fear vaccines more than other medicines. This has been the case since the first vaccinations were given to prevent a spread of smallpox in England in the late 18th century. That vaccine used bovine ingredients (the word vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow, vacca) and people feared the injections would turn them into cows. (See the top 5 swine...
...entering finance and consulting this year, compared to 39 percent in 2008, according to Crimson surveys. “If one likes to work with numbers and statistics, one doesn’t have to do it on Wall Street,” OCS Associate Director Susan M. Vacca said. “One could do it in an arts organization managing a budget.”The office’s programming is now grouped into cluster areas including finance and consulting, creative arts, education, and poverty relief.“OCS has done an admirable job of shifting...
...mail highlighted the newly created Crimson Careers database, which lists jobs available for both students and alumni. The efforts generated immediate results. The database received a surge of 120 new users registering on the day that the e-mail was sent out, according to OCS Associate Director Susan M. Vacca. “As a committee we saw the need to help our fellow alumni/ae during this challenging economic time,” Kelly A. O’Shea ’02 and Joshua M. Mendelsohn ’05, co-chairs of the Recent Graduates Committee, wrote...
...millennial anxiety about scientific and technological breakthroughs predates particle physics. When the locomotive was first conceived, for example, even some engineers predicted catastrophe resulting from the human body's inability to withstand the strains of high-speed travel. The word vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow, vacca - and the first vaccinations, against smallpox, used bovine ingredients, leading to widespread fear that the injections would turn humans into cows...