Word: academia
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This week’s events will also include panels on international law, international humanitarian work and academia, and will culminate in a reception on Friday with all the speakers and a keynote address by Nader A. Mousavizadeh ’92, a former assistant of political affairs to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and a member of the Lowell House Senior Common Room...
About a year of preparation led up to the Digital Media Project’s study, and earlier phases of the project included a conference on digital copyright that attracted participants from both academia and business, with representatives from companies like Microsoft...
Philadelphia Magazine set the rumor mill in motion when an October article included Faust on a list with four other members of academia as possibilities to end up on Penn’s short-list, “if they want...
Wood says he hasn’t encountered any hostility from academia over lecturing without a Ph.D., which he feels is “rather remarkable.” He acknowledges that his lack of specialization might hinder his approach in someways, but also thinks it could help. He’s not interested in the “roads, byways and lost lanes” of academic research, though he suspects most academics aren’t either. Some authors he will be lecturing about in his next class—among them Bellow, Martin Amis, and Ian McEwan?...
Gross helped introduce Clayburgh to the rough-and-tumble life of a math wonk, referring her to three female colleagues of his so she could get an idea of what it was like for a woman in academia. When she visited them, Gross says, the movie star was crestfallen to learn that female professors in the male-dominated field of math weren’t as confident and commanding as the role Bergstein had written...