At the end of each semester, K.T. Ramesh, director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, playfully invites his students to slice off a piece of his necktie when they turn in their final exams.
Grad Life blog posts offer insights from current MIT graduate students on Slice of MIT.
The competitions, organized by impact-oriented food company Revolution Foods, ask students to slice, dice and garnish in teams of five -- before having their creations rated by panels of chef judges on taste, aesthetics and, most importantly, nutrition.
Much to the disgust of teachers and other staff of these schools who reach out to me on a steady basis, predatory for-profit colleges are pressuring staff to write to the Administration and Congress, and offering students a slice of pizza, as well as misleading arguments, to do the same.
Staff numbers were pruned by 30% and the number of home students was sliced from 4,670 to 3,640.
One study showed Florida school students eating slices twice as often as whole apples.
That delighted Mr. Calderon because the students had sliced through a problem using their own "out-of-the-box" conceptions and had not resorted to a single formula.
Writer talked to Louis Neglia, who, among other things, places a melon on the stomach of a student and slices it in half with a sword.
Searching for a Smoking Gun In a laboratory at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Jennifer Cole, a graduate student, was slicing a precious chunk of living dolphin tissue into 0.3-millimeter sections.
The students used a "slicer" to cut that block into fractions and a "cloner" to copy those slices.
