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...impact of Glaeser’s work extends far beyond Massachusetts. “He revitalized urban economics to become a dynamic field,” University Chicago Professor Gary S. Becker wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson Saturday. Glaeser “is clearly one of the most creative of all economists,” added Becker, winner of the 1992 Nobel prize in economics...
Glaeser “is the heir to Becker in that he has applied economics to explain all manner of human behavior,” Dartmouth Economist Bruce I. Sacerdote wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...position at the world-class art school, Jenkins will oversee 23 departments, about 2,500 students and more than 600 faculty, about 150 of whom are full-time, according to Carol Becker, the SAIC’s dean of faculty and senior executive vice president for academic affairs. In addition to its degree-granting programs, the SAIC runs the Gene Siskel Film Center and a “databank” of independent video...
Jenkins will be one of two deans, the other overseeing graduate studies, who reports directly to Becker. Though he will be a tenured member of the SAIC’s faculty, he said time constraints would prevent him from teaching any courses in the coming term. In his five years at Harvard, Jenkins served as a senior lecturer and taught...
...SAIC and the Art Institute of Chicago are “in a corporate relationship” but have separate administrations, according to Becker. As such, Cuno was not directly involved in Jenkins’ hiring, but said he was consulted and recommended his former and future colleague...