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Harvard Medical School professor Nicholas A. Christakis and economics professor David I. Laibson ’88 each received a grant of about $1.5 million from the National Institute on Aging to implement research geared toward enhancing the quality of life...
Laibson will collaborate with Harvard Kennedy School Professor Brigitte C. Madrian, Yale School of Management Professor James J. Choi ’98, and post-doctoral fellow at the NBER John Beshears ’04. Laibson said his team’s research will work to “[bring] back grandmother’s and grandfather’s advice”—such as getting regular flu shots—to the modern...
...time has passed during my two years here. Although I am in the middle of my third year at Harvard, it still feels like it was yesterday when I was sitting awkwardly and confused in the “Saudi National Education” class back in my high school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia—a class that, to this day, I do not understand...
...always gone to an all-Arabic school in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia, and only moved to the U.S. for my college education. My transition from the Saudi educational system to that of the United States has been far from easy. This is a result of the conflicting approaches to education adopted in the U.S. and in my native country...
...fundamental drawbacks of the Saudi academic system is its imposition of a national curriculum that does not vary across any public or private high school. The system requires that every student study identical academic material in the sciences, literature, and math regardless of where a student’s interest lies. Additionally, the material offered in many of these subjects is extremely lacking; history topics only cover the Islamic era, honors classes are nonexistent, and English classes are only available after the seventh grade at public high schools...