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...this academic year, Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn will have spent nearly 50 years as a member of the Harvard faculty, making his mark as one of a group of scholars who studied the relationship between science and society. It took him a far shorter amount of time—the twenty or so years of life that led up to his study at Antioch College, where he joint concentrated in biology and history—for Mendelsohn to realize that scientific advances could not be studied apart from their historical context...
...This digitization has the potential to make information previously guarded within the stacks of Widener Library easily accessible to users at their virtual workspaces. And the variety and amount of resources that Harvard is gathering and making accessible is also expanding—ranging from specialized and obscure academic topics, to out-of-copyright books, to the content of Web sites that would be altered and lost if no one were to archive...
...wish I had a hugely larger amount of money for the Open Collections Program to pursue other projects,” Verba says. Outside sponsors have funded much of the Program’s work...
...personally want to live my life,” Sarkar told me in a recent conversation. “I think an education is meant to be a catalyst for working toward concrete improvements in society.” Sounds like pretty standard do-gooder stuff, right? Well, any amount of time with Sarkar will introduce you to a thoughtful person who is unafraid to challenge certain paradigmatic assumptions. “Social scientists and policymakers sometimes use data as an indestructible science on which to base policy,” Sarkar says in a tone that hints...
...have participated and committed an enormous amount of time and effort to addressing these concerns, as that opposition has really resulted in formulation of policy at the national level” says Scadden, noting that some members of the Harvard community have expressed concerns about the institute’s work...