Word: interdisciplinaryã
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...Harvard Kennedy School or the Business School, writing papers about the issues related with management of engineering schools and research institutes, which he said “require a different kind of culture and mindset.”Venky has big hopes for SEAS, envisioning it as highly interdisciplinary??a model engineering school aimed at the broadly educated. One University planner, Associate Provost for Science Kathleen M. Buckley said recently that the school may get its own building in Allston.“We can do more in engineering by having an engineering school that connects, really bridges...
...Venky has big hopes for SEAS, envisioning it as highly interdisciplinary??a model engineering school aimed at the broadly educated. One University planner, Associate Provost for Science Kathleen M. Buckley said recently that the school may get its own building in Allston...
...Harvard Stem Cell Initiative (HSCI). The HSCI will be one of the first Harvard institutions to move across the Charles River to Allston, according to Harvard’s public plans. It will be the centerpiece of what Hyman hopes to be a “vibrant and interdisciplinary?? scientific community. Looking ahead, Hyman says that he will work to implement the recommendations of the University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering, set to be released next month. Hyman says the preliminary proposal for University-wide departments will streamline redundant academic programs in different schools to ensure that...
...beneficial as to be immune from all but the most unhinged rants. Where Brooks stumbled is somewhere a large chunk of academia also seems to be stumbling: study abroad. The idea of “study abroad” is similar to those tired suggestions of “interdisciplinary?? courses or courses in the “sciences” that are often bandied about as a panacea for the ills of American higher education. I, like most people at Harvard, know numerous people that have studied abroad—though usually only for a semester, merely...
...Allston task force report, released in April, recommended the construction of two 500,000 square-foot science buildings and laid out the departments and projects—many of them new and interdisciplinary??that should be based there. Collaborative, ground-breaking scientific research is a Summers priority that Hyman says he has spent the last few months promoting...