It was my great privilege help UC Berkeley's renown Energy & Resources Group mark its 50th anniversary through oral-history interviews with the three living founding professors. Each of them had a highly individual story that brought them to a shared vision in a shared place and time. "We said, We understand that the world needs economists. It needs lawyers, it needs physicists, it needs biologists.... We're not saying the university should remake itself in the model of an entirely interdisciplinary operation. Instead, what we think is appropriate is that a great university should have a component that thinks about the integrational pieces, and that we propose to create that component in the form of a graduate group...." --John P. Holdren, Research Professor, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government -Go to the ERG Oral History homepage. -Read the Breakthroughs article on ERG, which extensively quotes the oral histories. Comments are closed.
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Fresh Ink! is a blog showcasing recent work by Ann Brody Guy, an Oakland-based writer, editor, and oral historian covering science, health, and higher educationCategories |