Word: provost
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Asked for comment, Brown Associate Provost John Quinn said that "we have been close to the bottom of the Ivy League list for quite some time. For a number of years, we squeezed ahead of Dartmouth, but I guess we've slipped right past them again...
According to The Cornell Daily Sun, Devlin hopes to review the issue within the next week after considering documentation provided by the protesters. He will report his evaluation to Provost Robert Baker who will decide whether a change in current policy is warranted...
Scientists at Brown, MIT, and the Wang Institute for Advanced Graduate study also informed Northeastern of their interest in the projects, said the Boston school's provost Karl Weiss, who coordinated the Northeastern proposal...
...president's office. Vartan Gregorian, 50, a pudgy, bearded historian who bears more than a passing resemblance to Patience and Fortitude, came to his post as head of the system's four research and 82 branch libraries in 1981, after eight years as professor, dean and provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Born in Iran, Gregorian is an Armenian American who speaks Russian, Turkish, Persian, French and Arabic in addition to his first language, Armenian. He has a disarming habit of dropping articles like the when he speaks English (a surprise, for instance, "comes out of blue...
...swatch of newborn, fuzzy stars. Calculations soon ruled out both possibilities. The astronomers then wondered if the threadlike arc might be the tattered remnant of interstellar material that had been sucked into a black hole at the galaxy's center; that notion too was discarded. Explains Frank Kerr, provost of the sciences at the University of Maryland, who has studied the structure of the Milky Way since 1951: "You'd expect a black hole to be pulling in all directions, not in an isolated arc." Kerr and others are now leaning toward the presence of a powerful...