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...Professor of Drama at Yale] some years ago, which alas he declined,” says Leo Damrosch, acting chair of the English Department. Currently, no fully tenured professors specializing in modern drama are on the English department faculty.A position has been offered to Visiting Professor Martin Puchner, from Columbia University, who received his master’s degree from Harvard, who thinks the Roach decision is indicative of larger trends.“I think maybe in the last few years since Roach declined, some thing have changed,” Puchner says. “Now, there...
...answer to the question of what draws human beings to the “odd thing” that is music. Instead, he uses his knowledge of science and medicine to chronicle the many ways music, with all its ambiguities, can influence our lives. It may be telling that Columbia University, in addition to giving Sacks a professorship in clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry, recently appointed him to the newly created position of “Columbia artist.” Perhaps, though we’re often taught to believe otherwise, it does take a scientist to provide...
...among historians it is customary to present facts to bolster an argument. I defy Professor Dershowitz to cite any statement of mine that is “against Israel.” My criticism of President Bollinger revolved around the part of his speech that seemed to commit Columbia University to support of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, and to blame Iran for the violence there. When introducing a foreign head of state, the president of a university is not simply expressing his “personal views,” as Dershowitz claims, but speaking...
...writer is DeWitt Clinton professor of history at Columbia University...
...study—funded by the Columbia-affiliated Institute on Medicine as a Profession—is the first national survey exploring attitudes and conduct related to medical professionalism, according to the authors...