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Program in General EducationHarvard has long required that students take a set of courses outside oftheir concentration in order to ensure that their undergraduate educationencompasses a broad range of topics and approaches. The new Program inGeneral Education seeks to connect in an explicit way what students learn inHarvard classrooms to life outside the ivied walls and beyond the collegeyears. The material taught in general education courses is continuous withthe material taught in the rest of the curriculum, but the approach isdifferent. These courses aim not to draw students into a discipline, but tobring the disciplines into students' lives. The Program in General Educationintroduces students to subject matter and skills from across the University,and ______ in ways that link the arts and sciences with the 21st centuryworld that students will face and the lives they will lead after college.

General education prepares students to respond critically and constructivelyto change. Students need to know about the forces that generate changeand transformation in modern life, not only in order to make informed

decisions as civic agents, but in order to have some degree of control overtheir own lives. Perhaps no area of endeavor today exerts more powerfultransformative effects than science and technology. General education isone of the means by which all students can become familiar with importantconcepts and issues in these areas, and wrestle with their social, personal,and ethical implications. Rapid change is also a feature of contemporarypolitical, economic, and cultural life. Our world is not a stable ______, andstudents are ill-served by a curriculum that assumes that the shape ofthings today is all they need to understand in order to engage with thepolitical, socio-economic, and technological landscape of tomorrow.Students need to leave Harvard with skills to match the worlds speed.

General education develops students understanding of the ethicaldimensions of what they say and do. Liberal education is about more thanthe acquisition of information, skills, and techniques. It is also about thecapacity to grasp the ethical consequences of the ways in which thoseacquirements are put to use. Ethical awareness is achieved in part byhelping students reflect critically on their own beliefs and values, and learnhow to defend them with reasoned arguments. It is also achieved byexposing students to beliefs and values that have shaped others lives,historically and internationally, so that they are put in a position from whichthey can choose for themselves what principles will guide them. Studentsmay well reaffirm the principles they came to Harvard with, but they should

be able to ______ self-consciously and deliberately. In addition, they shouldgain a deeper understanding of other belief systems, even when they do notshare them. They should see that conflicts about values arise from a varietyof sources, including cultural differences, religious differences, socio-economic differences, and the impact of developments in science andtechnology.

Fuente: http://www.generaleducation.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do

Constanza Arriaga 6 de noviembre de 2012
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Getting started

Until a time when all content flows effortlessly from one

context to another, users will continue to frequent whichever

experience makes sense to them at that time.

Some will prefer your desktop site as it offers familiarity.

Others may not find what they need on your mobile site.

Some may be redirected to the desktop asironically

the mobile site doesn't work on their device.

Others may access your desktop experience from a tablet-sized device,

and choose to do so because (despite poor usability) it still feels better

than a scaled-up mobile site.

And many will simply dip in and out, accessing one site or the other

depending on which device they have on hand, or which URL someone

sends them in a tweet or an email.

The important thing to remember is thatfor the foreseeable futurethese

behaviors are the new normal (except the bit about your mobile site not

working on their phoneyou need to do something about that).

So why not begin right now, by looking at your desktop site?

If youre already in the midst of a mobile redesign, these tips will be useful,as they illustrate the many ways that designing for multiple screens,

manipulation models, and capabilities should challenge your assumptions

about the way you design for the web.

Lighten up

Each kilobyte on your site should add value. Period.

And if this logic is good for small portable screens, theres no reason it

shouldnt be good for larger ones (or any other context where users have to

wait while things download).

Users assess value in many ways, so this doesnt mean serving a lowest

common denominator experience to all who visit. It merely reminds us that

we can no longer presume to know how much time or bandwidth a user will

have.

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Comparative evaluation of the potential impact ofrotavirus versus hpv vaccination in GAVI-eligiblecountries: A preliminary analysis focused on the

relative disease burdenIn addition to efficiency issues and uncertainties in disease

burden and program costs, there are ethical as well as political

considerations that may be relevant in prioritizing new vaccine introduction

in resource-poor settings. In terms of potential ethical considerations, in

addition to distributional equity, our comparison of the age-distribution of

the health outcomes between rotavirus and HPV vaccines suggests that, at

a local level, a country's decision to place priority on one vaccine over the

other under limited resources may cause public concerns of inter-

generational equity. Further, at the global level, given the regional

distribution of the health outcomes is different between the two vaccines(i.e., rotavirus vaccines would avert a majority of deaths in African settings

while HPV vaccines would do so in South Asian settings), prioritization of one

vaccine over the other may raise some inter-regional equity concerns.

Finally, since rotavirus vaccination provides direct benefits to girls and boys,

and right now HPV vaccination would provide direct benefit to girls only

(boys would only benefit indirectly), there could be concerns about gender

equity that might be relevant to decision-making. One purposeful goal of an

exercise such as this is to generate information that will stimulate a

deliberative dialogue among both decision makers and stakeholders about

just these very issues.

Texto completo: http://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/News?pageid=1432

Concerns and OptimismThe symposiums discussion was the right conversation at theright time, said JD Schramm, director of the Mastery inCommunication Initiative and lecturer in organizational behaviorat the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California. Wecant deploy all of the things that were hearing about here, but

we can take back what will work within our institutions.Even so, during question-and-answer periods, some attendees expressedconcerns that many of the changes might be unrealistic, particularly forsmaller schools. They wondered not only how to find the resources, but alsohow to motivate faculty to increase their workloads.

We have to create different ways to engage faculty intellectually, and alsoconnect these approaches to research, said Shantanu Dutta, vice dean ofthe University of Southern Californias Marshall School of Business in LosAngeles. He noted that more journals are publishing articles about researchrelated to pedagogy and practice, which could provide a greater incentive tofaculty to participate in new curricular innovations. He added that schools

could also encourage faculty members to travel along with colleagues who

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are leading students in global trips or observe them in experientialclassrooms. Such exposure could help inspire their interest.

The symposiums call to action to reinvent the business curriculum wascomprehensive, but even so, the moderators expressed optimism thatbusiness schools were headed in the right direction. But they also noted that

the right direction today is likely to be different than the right one tomorrow,as the worlds business environment continues to shift on its axis.

Thats one of the reasons AACSB will offer a series of four seminars oncurriculum development, all to be held at its head- quarters in Tampa.Beginning this October, the seminars will provide a more intense andongoing review of the topics discussed at the MBA symposium, includingmanaging in a global context; experiential learning; critical thinking; andinnovation, creativity, and design management.

All subjects will be covered from the perspective of both MBA andundergraduate curricula.

Texto completo: http://www.e-digitaleditions.com/issue/42073

Drought-Resistant Argentine Soy Raises Hopes, Concerns

SANTA FE, Argentina (April 28, 2012): Researchers in Argentina have

isolated a drought-resistant sunflower gene and spliced it into soy,

bolstering hopes for improved yields as the South American agricultural

powerhouse grapples with global warming.

Raquel Chan's team identified the HAHB4 gene that makes sunflowers resist

dry conditions and implanted it in rockcress flowering plants known asarabidopsis, whose resistance to drought increased considerably.

Her team has signed an agreement with Argentine firm Bioceres, which is

co-owned by over 230 agricultural producers, to use and exploit the gene.

The firm has conducted tests on soy, wheat and corn crops.

The seeds do need some water, but only about 500

millimeters (20 inches) per year. The most productive

areas receive an average 950 millimeters (37 inches)

of rain per year.

Revolutionary for agricultureBioceres formed a joint venture named Verdeca with

the US-based agricultural technology company Arcadia Biosciences to invest

as much as $30 million to further develop the technology.

The deal, announced with great fanfare in February by President Cristina

Kirchner, promises to increase productivity and profit in Argentina. But the

government has not yet licensed the seeds, setting a 2015 target date to do

so. Over the next three years, officials will first have to prove that the seeds

are at least as nutritious as conventional ones, that they are neither toxic

for animals or humans and that they do not have a negative impact on the

environment and other crops.

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"Biotechnology can provide answers, help produce more food, but hunger is

solved by political decisions," said Chan, who studied at the Hebrew

University of Jerusalem and lived in Israel during Argentina's 1976-1983

dictatorship.

"The idea is not to reduce the amount of arable land. Rather, (biotech

advances) allow producers to have the same return using less land."

Her findings have encouraged farmers, but Greenpeace coordinator Hernan

Giardini warned that the transgenic seed could "spell the end of native

forests in the Gran Chaco."

Texto completo: http://phys.org/news/2012-04-drought-resistant-argentine-

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