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    Reports to the President

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    A compilation of annual reports for the 1985-1986 academic year, including a report from the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as reports from the academic and administrative units of the Institute. The reports outline the year's goals, accomplishments, honors and awards, and future plans

    Reports to the President

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    A compilation of annual reports for the 1988-1989 academic year, including a report from the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as reports from the academic and administrative units of the Institute. The reports outline the year's goals, accomplishments, honors and awards, and future plans

    Reports to the President

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    A compilation of annual reports for the 1999-2000 academic year, including a report from the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as reports from the academic and administrative units of the Institute. The reports outline the year's goals, accomplishments, honors and awards, and future plans

    O\u27kei: An American Novel (Annotated)

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    On January 4, 1931, Boris Pilnyak (1894-1938) wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin, pleading with the Soviet leader to grant him permission to travel to the United States in order to conduct research for an ambitious book project he was undertaking that would compare communist Russia favorably to capitalist America. Pilnyak’s request received official approval, and a few months later the writer set off for the U.S., arriving in New York by steamer on March 12, 1931, and remaining in the country until August 3, 1931. During his nearly five-month stay in America, Pilnyak became acquainted with a number of prominent native writers, journalists, and critics (among others, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Upton Sinclair, Floyd Bell, Max Eastman, and Michael Gold), attended a number of theatrical performances on Broadway, and visited a number of popular tourist sites, such as Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, and the Ford automotive plant in Detroit. Hired by MGM Studios to co-author the screenplay for a film about a Five-Year Plan construction project in the Soviet Union (and to serve as a consultant on this film project), Pilnyak in early spring travelled with his host and personal interpreter, Joseph Freeman, to Hollywood, where they spent a month working on a pro-Soviet film, tentatively titled Soviet, which was plagued by creative differences and was never released. Pilnyak and Freeman decided to return to New York by car rather than by train, enabling them to see more of the country as they visited various locales in the desert Southwest, the deep South, and the industrial Midwest as part of their journey back to the East Coast. Upon his return to Moscow in early August 1931, Pilnyak began recording his impressions of the United States – and especially his serious misgivings about that country’s failing capitalist economy and its purportedly poisonous social and moral values (individualism, philistinism, materialism, consumerism, and so on) – in a travelogue that was completed in February 1932. It was subsequently serialized under the title, O’kei: An American Novel, in the March, April, May, and June 1932 issues of the journal Novy mir, before being published in a separate book edition in 1933. What is being presented here for the first time is a complete English-language translation of O’kei. Amerikanskii roman, available to readers in both an annotated version and a version without annotation, accompanied by an essay from the translator that seeks to acquaint readers generally with the reception that Pilnyak’s American travelogue received in the Soviet press at the time of its publication and its subsequent scholarly treatment by academics in both the former Soviet Union and the United States. This is the annotated version

    Annual Report of the University, 2001-2002, Volumes 1-4

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    VITAL ACADEMIC CLIMATE* by Brian Foster, Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs A great university engages students and faculty fully in important ideas and issues ... not just to learn about them, but to take them apart and put them back together, to debate, deconstruct, resist, reconstruct and build upon them. Engagement of this sort takes concentration and commitment, and it produces the kind of discipline and passion that leads to student and faculty success and satisfaction in their studies, research, performance, artistic activity and service. It is also the kind of activity that creates a solid, nurturing spirit of community. This is what we mean when we talk about a vital academic climate. We are striving for an environment that will enrich the social, cultural and intellectual lives of all who come in contact with the University. Many things interconnect to make this happen: curriculum, co-curricular activities, conferences, symposia, cultural events, community service, research and social activity. Our goal is to create the highest possible level of academic commitment and excitement at UNM. This is what characterizes a truly great university. *Strategic Direction 2 New Mexico native Andres C. Salazar, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, has been named the PNM Chair in Microsystems, Commercialization and Technology. Carrying the title of professor, the PNM Chair is a joint appointment between the School of Engineering and the Anderson Schools of Management. Spring 2002 graduate John Probasco was selected a 2002 Rhodes Scholar, the second UNM student to be so honored in the past four years. The biochemistry major from Alamogordo previously had been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship and the Truman Scholarship. Andres c. Salazar Biology student Sophie Peterson of Albuquerque was one of 30 students nationwide to receive a 2002-2003 Award of Excellence from Phi Kappa Phi, the oldest and largest national honor society. Regents\\u27 Professor of Communication and Journalism Everett M. Rogers was selected the University\\u27s 4 71h Annual Research Lecturer, the highest honor UNM bestows upon members of its faculty. John Probasco honored by Student Activities Director Debbie Morris. New Mexico resident, author and poet Simon}. Ortiz received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters at Spring Commencement ceremonies. Child advocate Angela Angie Vachio, founder and executive director of Peanut Butter and Jelly Family Services, Inc., was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. American Studies Assistant Professor Amanda}. Cobb won the 22 d annual American Book Award for listening to Our Grandmothers\\u27 Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949

    1990-1995 Brock Campus News

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    A compilation of the administration newspaper, Brock Campus News, for the years 1990 through 1995. It had previously been titled The Blue Badger
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