In 1921 he launched a comprehensive long-term program for the study of the gifted.
He helped found the American Universities Field Staff, an interuniversity program for the study of nations emerging from colonialism.
"I think that the mayor's plan is great," said Robert S. Young, director of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
Robert S. Young, a coastal geologist who is head of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, calls the project "our own little bridge to nowhere".
Some of the most compelling evidence came from studies that reduced children's exposure to media, said Vicky Rideout, vice president and director at the program for the study of entertainment media and health at the Kaiser Foundation.
She was a president emeritus of the American Friends of the Attingham Summer School, the noted English program for the study of historic houses and collections, and served on the board of the Decorative Arts Trust and the council of Historic New England.
"If you put up a sea wall, the beach will disappear because you stop its ability to move landward," said Robert S. Young, director of the program for the study of developed shorelines at Western Carolina University in North Carolina.
"My fear is that the environmental damage from Hurricane Sandy is going to be long-term and will result more from our response than from the storm itself," said Robert S. Young, head of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
"The best thing that could possibly come out of Sandy is if the political establishment was willing to say, 'Let's have a conversation about how we do this differently the next time,' " said Dr. Young, a coastal geologist who directs the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University.
