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...academic year or during the summer.Law School student Daniel B. Vorhaus, co-president of the Ethics, Law and Biotechnology Society, said he views the creation of the center as an opportunity to “legitimize” an area of law that he said has been neglected in academia. Last summer, Vorhaus worked two jobs to pursue his interests in bioethics: one at a traditional law firm and the other as a research assistant for a bioethicist.“This is a really strong vote of confidence for this kind of career path,” he said.The...
...makes plans to take a break from academia, however, Ignatieff sees this opportunity not as a departure from, but rather an extension of his teachings...
...have spent my past three academic years growing ever more interested in the history of Africa. Last year saw a lengthy stay in Tanzania and a summer-long visit to Ghana. My Swahili is solid, and my French is ready to be improved. Things poised as they are, academia is not out of the question.But like many upperclassmen, a fair bit of existential anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here’s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society...
We’re the Bill Clinton of the college set: we’re powerful, and for every positive story about our contributions to academia or science, there’s one more stained dress. As with the coverage of the photogenic genius-cum-trainwreck Clinton, the coverage of Harvard seems star-struck—but when the New York Times specifically solicits Harvard’s female students for their thoughts on marriage, maybe the fascination has gone...
...related areas. Heineman will leave G.E. at the end of the calendar year and assume his new position at Harvard on Feb. 1. David B. Wilkins, director of the Program on the Legal Profession, said that one of the goals of the program is to bridge the gap between academia and the professional world by bringing back experienced practitioners, like Heineman, to relate their experiences. “One of Harvard’s unfortunate problems is that we do not do a very good job of addressing issues that touch on many domains,” Wilkins said...