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...public this week. They had been closely held by his stepdaughter Margot Einstein, who decreed that they remain sealed for 20 years after her death. Some of the letters are being published by Princeton University Press in the 10th volume produced by the Einstein Papers Project at Caltech, and they are a revelation. "Einstein's private correspondence refutes the simplistic view of him as an isolated, remote man who immersed himself in his work at the expense of human contact," says general editor Diana Kormos Buchwald. That is nowhere more true than in the tense months between April and December...
...faculty leadership and deans...about the need to use Allston as a platform for innovative science,” Buehrens says.Harvard’s emphasis on science under Summers coincided with regional aspirations to establish Boston as an East coast counterweight to the technological powerhouses of Stanford and Caltech in California.Throughout his tenure, Summers went to great lengths to fashion a friendly relationship with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, known affectionately as “Mumbles.”The director of community relations for Boston, Kevin M. McClusky ’76, says that this partnership would jumpstart...
...biological research institution. So, too, will they free DEAS’ hands to work with other parts of the University, both through the status change to a “school” and the addition of jointly-endowed professorships. For Harvard to compete with schools such as Princeton, Caltech, and MIT in attracting top students and professors, DEAS must expand both its faculty and its international prominence. Making it easier for undergraduate engineering concentrators to take a fifth year to complete their more rigorous requirements is important, too, as the move would enable these students to take more liberal...
...more than four years in the making—the school’s full-time faculty will expand by approximately 30 positions—through joint appointments with other graduate schools and FAS positions—to bring the total faculty size to 100. By contrast, CalTech and Princeton have cultivated faculties of more than 100 professors, and cross-town competitor MIT has nearly 360 engineering faculty, according to Venky. Keeping with tradition, the school will not segregate into academic departments under the plan. In addition, the new school will allow DEAS professors to better collaborate internally with Harvard?...
...would set a universal precedent of integrity both inside and outside of the classroom.Dating from the institution of the first collegiate honor code at the College of William and Mary in 1779, honor codes have been a defining attribute of many of America’s most reputable institutions. Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Williams College, and the University of Virginia all have explicitly defined honor codes in either an academic or general setting. Stanford, for instance, has an Honor Code for academic integrity, written by students in 1921, as well as a Fundamental Standard of Behavior for Stanford students outside...