Word: professors
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...colleagues ran into one unexpected obstacle after another, beginning with the finicky growing habits of the rice they transplanted to a greenhouse near the foothills of the Swiss Alps. When success finally came, in the spring of 1999, Potrykus was 65 and about to retire as a full professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. At that point, he tackled an even more formidable challenge...
...love my class so much," says California native Kristen C. Weiss. "It's a political philosophy class taught by a professor from Brown, and it really doesn't matter that he's not from Harvard, because he's so good...
...have offered summer school since 1871 and a great majority of students are delighted with the courses," Queen says. "It's extremely rare for me to receive a call from a student saying he was disappointed in a professor or a course...
Queen considers the more diverse student population--which often includes adults--who have enthusiasm about a course subject as part of the motivation for a Harvard professor to remain on campus during the summer months...
...Orchard Professor of Landscape History John R. Stilgoe says teaching summer school has even been a benefit to his own career...