Lubell retains his position at CCNY, where he teaches a popular course on astronomy for nonscience majors. (sciencemag.org)
Those who pursued nonscience or applied science degrees («artsies,» as my mechanical engineering father and brother called them) were not up to the challenge to succeed in the real world of numbers and rigorous scientific experimentation. (sciencemag.org)
Many enter graduate school, for example, with little or no astronomy background and yet their «bread and butter» in academic positions is teaching general astronomy to nonscience students. (sciencemag.org)