Word: fielding
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...remarks by Yale President Richard Levin at that Feb. 4 dinner led to the resignation of the chair of Yale's Afro-American studies program and a public debate about Yale's commitment to the field...
Yale's program began offering a master's degree in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1993. Currently, Harvard's Afro-American studies department offers bachelor's degrees only to undergraduates, though the Faculty will vote tomorrow on whether to create a graduate program in the field...
Gates's own projects--Encyclopedia Africana and a series of television documentaries, have been labeled as self-promoting or trendy by scholars within the field of Afro-American studies...
...National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) headquarters in Boulder, Colo., alarms sounded. "All of a sudden, a blast wave of solar wind showed up at the ACE spacecraft," says NOAA's Joe Hirman, "as dense as any we've seen, and, bam, 30 minutes later the earth's magnetic field got hit hard...
During solar maximums, space weather becomes stormy. The normally benign sun pounds the earth mercilessly with ultraviolet radiation, X rays and floods of charged particles, distorting the planet's protective magnetic field and inducing powerful electric currents that can wreak havoc not only with spacecraft but also with many aspects of terrestrial life...