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...students, according to Daniel G. Donoghue, the English department’s director of undergraduate studies.English concentrators—too often inundated with large lecture classes—have been asking for smaller classes for a long time, according to New, the English professor.In the renewed “Astrophysics?? concentration (“renamed from Astronomy and Astrophysics??), a similar movement for common-ground courses is taking place. Concentrators will be required to take the newly created classes Astrophysics 16: “Stellar and Planetary Astronomy” and Astrophysics...
...exciting, and we thought, ‘We need an overhaul,’” Grindlay said. “We don’t offer enough exciting and appropriate-level courses.”The modifications to the concentration currently called “Astronomy and Astrophysics?? were approved by the Educational Policy Committee earlier this month without revisions, said Stephanie H. Kenen, the associate dean of undergraduate education. The changes come as part of a string of curricular reconsiderations this year. The English department had an overhaul of its concentration requirements approved...
...sense, but in that tiny green men sense? That’s the question Professor of Physics Paul Horowitz wants to answer. He is the faculty director of Harvard’s recently christened optical telescope, which scans the skies for extraterrestrial life from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics?? Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. It is the first optical telescope dedicated specifically to the search for alien life. “About half [the people we talk to] think we’re looking for UFOs, and I try to dispel that notion...
...undergraduates for research. Although it is currently the largest telescope in the country east of Texas, the Oak Hill technology doesn’t measure up to newer models, which have gotten progressively larger and more powerful. Its closure reflects plans to bring the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics?? (CFA) international battery of telescopes up to date...
...Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics??s director was on vacation and could not be reached...