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...should tell you that there is excellent teaching at Harvard,” said Student Affairs Committee chair Jon T. Staff V ’10. The students and the teachers they nominated were invited to the banquet in Dunster House, where psychology professor Stephen Pinker gave the keynote address. The winners do not receive cash prizes; instead, the money that was given for the award pays for the dinner. The commonality among the candidates was not just brilliance, Staff said in his introductory remarks. “It was the teachers who transformed students, who found an interest...
...like Susan M. Cischke in a series dedicated to “finding a secure, safe, and reliable source of energy to power the world,” may come as a surprise, the choice was an intentional effort by the Harvard University Center of the Environment (HUCE) to address all facets of this challenge.“We’ve heard from a variety of perspectives,” said Daniel P. Schrag, an earth and planetary sciences professor and the director of HUCE, who introduced Cischke. “But nowhere is energy more immediate...
First, to address the belief that an Obama or Clinton presidency in and of itself would not notably alter the nature or level of prejudice and its effects in America. In “Political Progress and the Development of Black Insurgency,” Douglas McAdam affirms descriptive representation is valuable in its contribution to the cognitive liberation—what Americans consider to be legitimate and acceptable within society’s institutions—of American society as a whole. A black man or a woman of any color, in the highest office, may help reform...
...fascinated by how we can use technology to address the major challenges facing the planet,” Hadfield said. “I think it would be really cool to find a way to use social networking tools to eradicate malaria...
...Still, reconfiguring campus space can’t consist entirely of bandaging up old buildings. It has to address spatial scales far larger and far smaller. On the large scale, the shuttle system distorts the way we imagine distance across campus. On the small scale, suite doors, many of which slam shut and lock by default, pull us towards an in-suite, invite-only pattern of socializing. Patterns like these, long taken for granted, coax us into habitual behaviors that, even when comfortable, could stand reexamination. To excavate the manifold ways in which space has guided us into routine...