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...Harvard prepares to stake its future??and at least $1 billion of its funds—on the sciences, undergraduates are fleeing the discipline in large numbers, opting instead for concentrations in the social sciences and the humanities...
...Harvard researcher is devising a plan to take on two of the greatest threats to the Earth’s future??acid rain and global warming. Kurt Z. House, a research assistant in earth and planetary sciences, proposed a process known as electrochemical weathering, which increases the alkalinity—or basic pH level—of the Earth’s oceans to reduce the damage caused by acid rain and decrease carbon levels in the atmosphere. The natural ability of oceans to remove carbon from the air has suffered due to pollution-induced acid rain. House...
...agency” in starting wars should not be dismissed. In the question and answer session that followed, when multiple students asked him to predict the level of violence in the next few decades, Ferguson said that “there’s no such thing as the future??there are only futures.” Although Ferguson said that a major war within the next decade is likely, he said, “I’m describing to you only the preconditions for violence. This does not make it inevitable.” Just...
...even worse, “there’s nothing we should do.” In her address, Faust said the very “essence” of this University “is that it is uniquely accountable to the past and to the future??not simply or even primarily to the present.” Our insular, inflexible administration cannot possibly have the foresight to be accountable to the future without hearing from the very people it has chosen to lead that same future...
...that universities are unable to change should take note of this transformation, of how different we are from universities even of the mid 20th century…. By their nature, universities nurture a culture of restlessness and even unruliness. This lies at the heart of their accountability to the future?...