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...brains of the team” by a Stanford co-star, Martinez says he used his solid background in mathematical physics to help a team more versed in mechanical engineering.“It was my chance to really use the tools I had gathered in the classroom for the real world,” he says. But based on Martinez’s descriptions, the stars’ all-expenses-paid escapades out and about in Sydney, Australia, sound like they would have made for good television as well. (Sadly, the antics were not taped.) Ever confident, Martinez describes...
...reforms proposed in our reports make it clear that a liberal education must be the shared endeavor of faculty and students alike. It is an education fostered not only in classrooms and laboratories but also by individual conversation and advising. Students and faculty must truly engage one another, close up, and not at a distance. The most consistent-and most accurate-criticism of a Harvard education today is that student-faculty contact is much too limited. Our current system of concentrations decants too many students, much too early, into too few concentrations that are too large. Our Core Program funnels...
...wild child, a mountain prodigy who grew up plumbing-free, electricity-free and constraint-free in a house hand-built by his parents in a forest near Franconia, N.H. As a kid, Miller spent as many winter hours skiing at nearby Cannon Mountain as he did in the classroom. In his teens, he was all but dismissed as being uncoachable. But, last year his World Cup triumph was the first by an American in 22 years. His prowess is such that he could win a medal in any of five Alpine skiing events at the Olympic Games in Torino, Italy...
...other schools that do a far superior job to Harvard at fostering interaction among students and professors. One of the advantages of attending a small college like Williams or Amherst is that professors assign and grade all assignments, lead discussions, and interact with students outside of the classroom on a regular basis. At Williams, 40 faculty members and administrators are even habitual members of intramural sports teams...
...intelligent design] side will appeal the judge’s decision as unfair on technical grounds or simply deny that he made the correct decision,” Hanken said. Professor of Philosophy Edward J. Hall said there is still a chance intelligent design could be taught in science classrooms. “Keep in mind that creationist sentiments have already had widespread and pernicious effects: namely, many high school biology teachers report that they simply avoid the topic of evolution, so as not to provoke controversy,” he said. Hanken said he attributes the American public?...