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While Professor Jennifer L. Roberts works with artifacts hundreds of years old, she’s in no danger of gathering moss herself. As the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, specializing in American art from the colonial age to modernism, she constantly strives to...

Author: By Anna E. Boch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Faculty Hot Shots: Jennifer Roberts | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Standing casually in the hallway of Maxwell Dworkin’s third floor, bespectacled and wearing a basic brown sweater, David J. Malan ’99 explains why he thinks computers are sexy. “I think that once you’ve become sufficiently acclimated to the...

Author: By Li S. Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Faculty Hot Shots: David Malan | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Despite the short-term academic gains, there is no evidence that Adderall improves learning overall or that short-term gains in learning persist without the continued use of the drug. What a user produces on an exam will not necessarily translate to long-term knowledge or improved performance without the...

Author: By Lawrence H. Diller | Title: A Misuser’s Guide to Adderall | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

Elise X. Liu ’11, a Social Studies concentrator from Cabot House, was awarded the 111th Annual Jacob Wendell Scholarship Prize last night at the Harvard Faculty Club. The Wendell Prize, established in 1899, is awarded each year to a Harvard sophomore who exhibits extraordinary academic achievement and...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sophomore Wins the Wendell Prize | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Academic rewards, the report notes, are still largely bestowed by men, who have had decades more time to become ensconced in positions of campus authority. And until more women get promoted to full professorships - the springboards to plum administrative posts - that's unlikely to change. "It's a vicious circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Math. Women Lag in Becoming English Profs! | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

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