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During his first year in office, Summers made several efforts to thaw the traditionally chilly ties between Harvard and the military. In an October address at the Kennedy School, Summers suggested that academia needed to show the armed services greater respect. In June he became the first University president in over 30 years to attend the commissioning eremony for the College’s graduates of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC...
Some scientists say they initially hoped to ignore Lomborg but in the wake of his book's popularity have reacted with a fury rarely seen in academia. Peter Raven, chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, calls Lomborg "the prime example in our time of someone who distorts statistics and statements to meet his own political end." A dozen esteemed environmental scientists, including Raven and Harvard's Edward O. Wilson, are demanding that Lomborg's publisher cut him loose. "We are deeply disturbed that Cambridge University Press would publish and promote an error-filled, poorly referenced...
During his first year in office, Summers made several efforts to thaw the traditionally chilly ties between Harvard and the military. In an October address at the Kennedy School, Summers suggested that academia needed to show the armed services greater respect. In June he became the first University president in over 30 years to attend the commissioning ceremony for the College’s graduates of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC...
...issue, Gomes said, is whether the Divinity School considers itself a professional school with an aim to produce a learned ministry, or instead, a school dedicated to preparing students for a life in academia...
James C. Thomson, who led the Nieman Foundation from 1972 to 1984, was known for his work in both government, journalism and academia, and his desire to bridge the gap between different groups...