Word: academicization
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Rebecca J. Joseph ’85, a former Crimson Executive Arts Editor, is a former inner-city English teacher and current education professor at California State University, Los Angeles, where she trains urban teachers, supports first-generation college goers, and provides workshops on preparing students for college. Chris C...
Former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson ’46, whose reforms catalyzed a revolution in modern medical education around the world, died last Wednesday due to complications from a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 84 years old.Tosteson held the deanship for 20...
Few would deny that Harvard is a pretty darn cerebral place. As we’re so often reminded, it’s America’s oldest college, home to Nobel-prize winning faculty and students who are the country’s best and brightest. In thinking about...
“On campus and among the freshman class, she was known as the banjo woman,” Virginia “Ginger” M. Young ’84 said of her first-year roommate Alison H. Brown ’84. Unlike many prospective students...
Perhaps drawing inspiration from Isaac Newton, when physicist Brian R. Greene ’84 worked deep into the night on classical mechanics homework as an undergraduate, he routinely consumed upwards of 15 apples in a single sitting, courtesy of the dining hall.Greene’s unusual eating habits...