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History of Science Department Chair Anne Harrington, whose fall course “Stories Under the Skin: The Mind-Body Connection in Modern Medicine,” enrolled 103 undergrads, said she’s using an online message board to generate discussion beyond the classroom. She said she prefers that approach “rather than me just being the television...
...many of whom have more money than they know what to do with, will be in direct competition with each other, and able to increase their bids accordingly. The second benefit is that the University will be in a stronger position to resist earmarks on donations. Many an endowed chair has been created in anticipation of preferential treatment for the generous donor’s offspring—but the money might be better spent on expanding financial aid, or funding study abroad. In an open trade, Harvard could demand more scope to spend the money as it sees...
It’s “the most vulnerable” component of the proposal, said Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, the other co-chair of the group that produced the report...
...just recruiting individuals—we are recruiting families,” she said. Hogan said that as of 2003, 67 percent of working couples were dual-income couples. Between 1980 and 2003 the number of working couples grew by almost eight million, or 31 percent. Economics Chair James H. Stock is largely responsible for recruiting the department’s professors. He agreed that coordinating spouses comes up as a subject in virtually every hire. “It is a statement about more women being candidates for junior and senior faculty appointments than they were several years...
...final question asks students to name a maximum of three characteristics the new president should have. And as added incentive, all participants have a shot at winning iPods or digital cameras in a lottery. Matthew J. Murray, a first-year student at the Law School and the chair of the student advisory group, said last night that such broad questions were intentional. “The search committee is interested in knowing what students think about the University,” he said. “They hope to capture that vantage point and get a sense of what?...