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...Illinois senator’s choice of a running mate suggests that an Obama administration may not resemble the “whiz kids” from industry and academia assembled by President John F. Kennedy ’40 so much as it would a coalition of Washington insiders...
...light of Bush’s abysmal performance, a collection of 180 groups in science, business, and academia came together last Friday to implore the next president to select a cabinet-level science advisor by inauguration day. Such a move would be a promising start and presage an administration that viewed science as a tool, not something to be feared...
...understand the violence during the emergency in Kenya as a part of the colonial movement not a paradox,” said Caroline Elkins, a professor of history at Harvard and a former Radcliffe Institute fellow. The wide-ranging group of experts hail from esteemed positions in academia, nongovernmental organizations, and the military. The diverse nature of each panel gave rise to an exciting debate on the origins of colonial uprising and violence. “Its all about escalation, these grassroots movements escalate into something much bigger and more violent,” Thomas A. Marks of the National...
...while Kagan has mastered both complex changes (the new grading system) and simple ones (free coffee and a tiny-but-cute ice rink), none of her reforms has rippled as widely outside of academia as her move to force Harvard back into the lateral hiring market. Indeed, in her half-decade in office, Kagan has poached 20 tenured professors, among them University of Chicago professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most-cited law professor in the United States. Last year alone, six tenured professors accepted offers to come to Harvard...
...from Harvard last June, called HLS “one of the most vibrant academic environments in the world,” adding that “it’s a place that is eager to forge connections with other universities, other disciplines, and with the world beyond academia...