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Scores on Advanced Placement (AP) science exams do not translate into success in introductory level college science courses, according to a study by researchers at Harvard and the University of Virginia. Harvard’s Wright senior lecturer on celestial navigation, Philip M. Sadler, the primary researcher of the study, said the recent survey polled college students in biology, physics, and chemistry courses to test the correlation between AP scores and first-semester college grades.The study, which found no significant correlation between AP scores and grades, adds to the ongoing debate among educators over the weight placed on AP exam...
...centralization of gender-related resources that are currently dispersed around the campus, some in hard-to-find areas. The center will have its own staff and programming to better integrate women into the still male-dominated environment. And the women’s center will finally be what Virginia Woolf asked for women, the better part of a century ago: a “room of our own.” Call it safe space, call it centralization of resources, call it much-delayed justice—it will be a place on the campus created by, for, and about...
...student Hayfa M. Abdul Jaber, a Palestinian who was born and raised in Kuwait and who is now enrolled in one of Oren’s courses.Huda Abuarquob, a resident of the West Bank city of Hebron and a master’s student at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, said she recognized that the disengagement was “heartbreaking” from Israelis’ perspective. But, she said, “it’s trauma from all sides.”Meanwhile, Oren’s talk garnered rave reviews from members of Harvard Students...
Former Institute of Politics (IOP) Fellow James H. Webb announced last Tuesday that he will seek the Virginia Democratic Party nomination to run for U.S. Senate this year. If he lands the nomination, Webb, who served as Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan, will run against one-term incumbent Senator George Allen, R-Va. The Harvard community greeted news of Webb’s decision to join the race with interest and enthusiasm. IOP Director of Communications Esten Perez said that “as a nonpartisan institute, the IOP doesn’t support or oppose specific...
...Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...