Soref fellows conduct independent research and acquire firsthand knowledge of U.S. Middle East policymaking, contributing written analyses to the Institute's PolicyWatch series, and publishing longer studies as monographs.
Students acquire firsthand knowledge of common diseases in the developing world and become acquainted with public health issues in resource-poor settings [ 4– 6].
Accompanied by tutors, they spent months, sometimes years, acquiring firsthand knowledge of the European arts, languages and even sciences.
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Most of them would admit problems with the small sample size that characterizes personal observation, but nonetheless, information acquired firsthand often feels richer and closer to real knowledge than do words and data in a journal article.
On the other hand, it appears, from firsthand knowledge gleaned from my seat on the department's admissions committee, that the number of applicants to graduate programs has declined precipitously.
"I can tell you from firsthand knowledge that it happened, so the speculation is over," Scott Lewis, who owns a beach house in Fort Morgan, Ala., told The Huffington Post.
