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Rubin’s theoretical approach to statistics is unique in its rejection of the abstract. “I like working on theory and conceptual developments in statistics and I like seeing those ideas applied to actual problems,” Rubin says...
That, says research assistant Fiery A. Cushman ’03, is what makes him “revolutionary” in his field. “What’s so unique about Marc’s approach,” says Cushman, “is that he combines human behavioral research with nonhuman research...
brin likes to push boundaries. She invigorated Harvard’s Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department, with an unorthodox approach to film and strong feminist perspective. In the film industry, she is known for up-to-the-moment work that toes the line between fiction and documentary. “I’ve kind of straddled the film and the art world,” Subrin says...
...field of interest that has made Verba a pioneer. To research The Civic Culture, Verba, Almond and their team performed a cross-national survey, a method which would become fundamental to political science. For his second major work, Voice and Equality, Verba surveyed 15,000 Americans. The approach made waves in the field of political science, prompting theorists across the country to mimic Verba’s method...
Hauser studies the human mind—its evolution, its processes, its judgments, its nuances—with the eyes and tools of a scientist. It is an integrative approach to an age-old question. If we share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees, thinkers have long wondered, what is it about humans that makes us truly different? In particular, Hauser asks, what about humans makes them moral...