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Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor was born on October 29, 1926 in Warwickshire, England. Came to United States, 1968, naturalized, 1976. Son of Harold Cecil and Gladys (Ford) Rhodes.
(Is the university a dinosaur: huge, lumbering, endearing ...)
Is the university a dinosaur: huge, lumbering, endearing in its own way, yet unsuited to today's world? Is it a thing of the past, unnecessary in an age of the Internet and online learning? In a book likely to provoke people who are loyal to the ideal of the university as well as those who foresee its demise, Frank H. T. Rhodes acknowledges that the university is an imperfect institution, but argues that it plays an essential role in modern society. In the process, he articulates strong opinions on a range of difficult issues. The Creation of the Future is no defense or promotion of the status quo. Focusing on American research universities, Rhodes makes the case that they are an irreplaceable resource, quite literally a national and international treasure, whose value must be preserved through judicious renewal and reform, beginning with a rededication to teaching as a moral vocation. Rhodes discusses where the research university is today and how it got here, as well as where it must go in the future. In the process, he addresses a wide range of contemporary challenges facing the institution, including*why universities can no longer be "ivory towers"*why post-tenure review of professors is desirable*whether grading standards have become too lax*why unionization of graduate students is inappropriate*why affirmative action is necessary*how governance and leadership can be improved*how to maintain a sense of commitment to the university in the face of increasing disciplinary specialization*why faculty must affirm that university membership has not only its privileges, but also its price.*what should and should not be done to control the rapid rise in tuition.*whether curricula of professional schools should be more heavily weighted toward the liberal arts.*why service is a social obligation of all universities, not just land-grant institutions.*why research is vital to effective teaching.His eighteen-year tenure as president of Cornell University gives Rhodes a unique perspective on a system he finds both invaluable and in need of change. Although he is an enthusiastic advocate, he pulls no punches in recommending sweeping changes. The greatest catastrophe facing universities today, he writes, is loss of community: "Without community, knowledge becomes idiosyncratic. The lone learner, studying in isolation, is vulnerable to narrowness, dogmatism, and untested assumption; pursued in community, learning will be expansive and informed, contested by opposing interpretations, leavened by differing experience, and refined by alternative viewpoints."In championing a new relevance for the American research university, Rhodes argues for renewal through the application of old virtues to new realities. Campus culture, he says, must embrace the human experience in all its richness, breadth, and ambiguity if it is to survive and thrive.
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This introduction to the life of the past as revealed through fossils includes: -Descriptions of the typical plants and animals of major geological eras -Maps showing where fossils can be found -The history of the development of life on earth Full-color illustrations and concise information make this an invaluable and enjoyable guide to a fascinating subject.
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During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Many of these tools have common underpinnings but are often expressed with different terminology. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics. Many examples are given, with a liberal use of color graphics. It is a valuable resource for statisticians and anyone interested in data mining in science or industry. The book's coverage is broad, from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning. The many topics include neural networks, support vector machines, classification trees and boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book. This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original, including graphical models, random forests, ensemble methods, least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso, non-negative matrix factorization, and spectral clustering. There is also a chapter on methods for ``wide'' data (p bigger than n), including multiple testing and false discovery rates.
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( This introduction to the life of the past as revealed t...)
This introduction to the life of the past as revealed through fossils includes: -Descriptions of the typical plants and animals of major geological eras -Maps showing where fossils can be found -The history of the development of life on earth Full-color illustrations and concise information make this an invaluable and enjoyable guide to a fascinating subject.
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(Evolutionists rely on the fossil record for support of th...)
Evolutionists rely on the fossil record for support of their theory, but what does that record really reveal? ICR geologist Dr. John Morris and zoologist Frank Sherwin unearth the evidence of earth's history and conclude that the fossil record is incompatible with evolution, but remarkably consistent with the biblical account of creation and the great Flood of Noah's day.
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(Evolutionists rely on the fossil record for support of th...)
Evolutionists rely on the fossil record for support of their theory, but what does that record really reveal? ICR geologist Dr. John Morris and zoologist Frank Sherwin unearth the evidence of earth's history and conclude that the fossil record is incompatible with evolution, but remarkably consistent with the biblical account of creation and the great Flood of Noah's day.
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(ANCIENT FORESTS: A CLOSER LOOK AT FOSSIL WOOD Perhaps t...)
ANCIENT FORESTS: A CLOSER LOOK AT FOSSIL WOOD Perhaps the most intriguing, beautiful, and informative fossil wood book of all time, exploring the subject with images to illustrate each point — with Scanning Electron Microscope images, digital micro images, macro photographs, and medium format photographs. Frank Daniels and geologist Dick Dayvault team up to explore the intricacies of fossil wood by leading the reader on an expedition into the micro world of fossil wood mineralization and cell structures. Not just macro and micro images, this book includes hundreds of photographs of some of the most beautiful and interesting petrified wood specimens in the world, including 75 full page specimen photographs. 1600 color photographs, charts, and diagrams, including 438 fossil wood micro images, 40 Geologic Landscapes ™, and 46 thin section micrographs from modern conifers and hardwoods. Enormous 7 1/2 pound book with 456 11 by 12 inch pages Specimen photographs from worldwide locations, including numerous woods, cones, ferns, cycads, and short shoots, and including Acrostichum, Araucaria mirabilis, Araucarioxylon, Aurealcaulis moorei, Behuninia provoensis, Calamites, Carpolithus radiatus, Carporichnus bertheorum, Carya, Casuarina, Cupressinoxylon, Cyathodendron texanum, cycadeoid, Dadoxylon, Ginkgo, Grammatopteris, Hermanophyton glismannii, Hermanophyton taylorii, Jensensispermum redmondi, Juglans, Juniperus, Metasequoia, Osmunda, Palmoxylon, Pararaucaria, Pityoxylon, Platanoxylon, Podocarpoxylon, Protoyucca shadishii, Psaronius, Quercus, Rhexoxylon, Schilderia adamanica, Sequoia, Steinerocaulis radiatus, Taxodioxylon, Tempskya, Tietea singularis, Trochodendron, Ulmus, and Woodworthia arizonica. Fossil wood specimens from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Gondwana, Great Britain, Greece, Indonesia, Malagasy Republic, Pangea, Paraguay, Turkey and Zimbabwe; and from Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming in the United States. Major chapters address Fossil Wood Structure and Identification, The Process of Wood Transformation to Stone, Fossil Woods from the Western United States and around the World, and 3 Major Museum Collections of Fossil Woods.
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Rhodes, Frank Harold Trevor was born on October 29, 1926 in Warwickshire, England. Came to United States, 1968, naturalized, 1976. Son of Harold Cecil and Gladys (Ford) Rhodes.
Bachelor of Science, University Birmingham, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Birmingham, 1950. Doctor of Science, University Birmingham, 1963.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Wooster College, Ohio, 1976. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Nazareth College, Rochester, New York, 1979. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1989.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Michigan, 1990. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Clemson University, South Carolina, 1991. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1993.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Birmingham, England, 1999. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Florida International University, Miami, 2000. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Trinity College, University Dublin, 2001.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 1980. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Wagner College, Staten Island, 1982.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rensselaer Poly Institute, Troy, New York, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Le Moyne College College, 1984.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Pace University, New York City, 1986. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters, Hamilton College, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), State University of New York, 1992. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Canisius College, Buffalo, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ithaca College, New York, 1995.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 1996. Doctor of Science (honorary), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 1996. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College St. Rose, Albany, New York, 2002.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Wales, England, 1981. Doctor of Science (honorary), Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1985. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Illinois, 1986.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Reed College, Portland, 1988. Doctor of Science (honorary), Elmira College, New York, 1989. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Southampton, England, 1989.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Sydney, Australia, 1995. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Durham, England, 1995. Doctor of Science (honorary), Millsaps College, England, 1996.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Nevada, 1982. Doctor of Education (honorary), Ohio State University, 1992. Doctor (honorary), University Stirling, England, 1994.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University North Carolina, 2003. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Arizona State University, Tempe, 2006.
Post-doctoral fellow, Fulbright scholar University Illinois, 1950-1951, visiting lecturer geology, summers 1951, 52. Lecturer geology University Durham, 1951-1954. Assistant professor University Illinois, 1954-1955, associate professor, 1955-1956.
Director University Illinois Field Station, Wyoming, 1956. Professor geology, head geology department University Wales, Swansea, 1956-1968, dean faculty of science, 1967-1968. Professor geology and mineralogy College Literature, Science and Arts, University Michigan, 1968-1977, dean, 1971-1974, vice president for academy affairs, 1974-1977.
President, professor geology Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1977-1995, pres emeritus, since 1995. Gurley lecturer Cornell University, 1960. Bownocker lecturer Ohio State University, 1966.
Case lecturer University Michigan, 1976. Jefferson lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1996-1998. Director National Science Foundation, American Geological Institute, summer field institute, 1963.
Australian vice-chancellors' visitor to Australian universities, 1964. Visiting fellow Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1982. Bye fellow Robinson College, Cambridge, 1986-1987.
American Fulbright Distinguished fellow, Kuwait, 1987, scholar in residence, Bellagio study and conference center, 1995.
( This introduction to the life of the past as revealed t...)
( This introduction to the life of the past as revealed t...)
(Is the university a dinosaur: huge, lumbering, endearing ...)
(ANCIENT FORESTS: A CLOSER LOOK AT FOSSIL WOOD Perhaps t...)
(Evolutionists rely on the fossil record for support of th...)
(Evolutionists rely on the fossil record for support of th...)
( During the past decade there has been an explosion in c...)
Author: The Evolution of Life, 1962, second edition, 1976, Fossils, 1963, Geology, 1972, Evolution, 1974, Language of the Earth, 1981, Creation of the Future: The Role of the American University, 2001, Language of the Earth II, 2008. Author numerous articles and monographs on science and education. Editor, contributor: Successful Fund Raising for Higher Education, 1997.
Trustee Carnegie Foundation for Advancement Teaching, 1978-1986, vice chairman, 1983-1985, chairman 1985-1986. Trustee The Freedom Forum, 1983-1993, Committee for Economic Development, 1984-1993. Principal Washington Advisory Group, since 1997.
Board directors KMI Continental, Inc., 1985-1986, Tompkins County Trust Company, 1984-1998, General Electric Company, 1984-2002, NBC, 1986-2002, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics & Environmental, 1996-1998, American Council on Education, 1983-1988, vice chair, 1985-1986, chair, 1986-1988, The Johnson Foundation, since 2000. Member Atlantic Philanthropies, 1995-2004, chairman, 2000-2004. Board directors Goldman Sachs Foundation, since 2000.
Board overseers Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1979-1991, Koç University, Turkey, since 1996. Chairman advisory board Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, 1984-1993. Member National Science Board, 1987-1998, chair, 1994-1996, International Executive Service Corps Council, 1984-1995.
Vice president Dyson Charitable Trust, 1996-1998. Board member The Johnson Foundation, since 2000, King Abdullah University Sciences and Technology. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Geological Society London (council 1963-1966, Bigsby medal 1967).
Member American Philosophical Society (president 1999-2005), Palaeontol. Association (vice president 1963-1968), British Association for the Advancement of Science, Geological Society of America, American Association Petroleum Geologists, Society Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Rosa Carlson, August 16, 1952. Children: Jennifer, Catherine, Penelope, Deborah.