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...said. “You couldn’t be anything but happy when you were with Stine.”Many of Rossel’s colleagues also praised her cheerfulness and sense of humor. Fellow graduate student Zinovi Matskevich, who shared an office with Rossel and conducted fieldwork with her in the country of Georgia years before she attended Harvard, said that Rossel brought joy to all who knew her. “She created festivals from the most boring tasks,” he said.Matskevich recalled Rossel composing songs about archaeological distribution patterns—though...
Thankfully, Harvard is already well-equipped with the expertise to develop high-quality, integrative activity-based learning. Since 2005, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning has been assessing how courses that provide opportunities for students to do public service, fieldwork, community-based research and internships in conjunction with their course work have impacted student learning outcomes. They have now collected data on twenty-nine courses involving over seven hundred Harvard students...
...Arnold Arboretum. “It acknowledges not only a lifetime of outstanding work but his love of tropical forests as well.” Ashton’s research dates back to his years as a graduate student at Cambridge University, where he began his career doing fieldwork in Brunei. Ashton wanted to understand how different species of trees were able to randomly mix in the same environment and coexist without competing. He pioneered the strategy of building plots and studying them—a method already common in agriculture—in the study of tropical forests. Ashton...
After spending a year in London doing fieldwork for his dissertation on the Iraqi diaspora in Britain, he moved to Montreal to finish writing it and became a permanent resident of Canada in June 2005. According to Dewachi, Canada recognizes his “N” series passport...
...authorized to end a session instantly over the slightest variation from the rulebook. It says the CIA requires that its interrogators, whose average age is 43, receive "more than 250 hours of specialized training before they are allowed to come face-to-face with a terrorist," followed by supervised fieldwork before they can direct an interrogation. Detainees are also questioned by subject-matter experts - analysts who may have been following a terrorist's bloody career for years before getting the opportunity to confront their target in person...