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...ideal. But why do so many people speak of a "black" President? The fact that Obama's father was black does not make him black. I wonder how many people in Kenya are celebrating because they now have a white President (because his mother was white). None, I suspect. David Burdett, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND...
...from Harvard and the University of Oklahoma proposed names and narrowed the list down to about 100. The final choices were then made by a national committee of two dozen people. “It’s a very strong selection committee,” said CPL Director David R. Gergen, who co-chaired the committee with University of Southern California professor Warren Bennis. “It is composed of former honorees as well as faculty members from universities across the country and an assortment of others who have been interested in the project...
...David Rockefeller International Experience Grants will now be available to fund student travel overseas for the summer of 2009, the University announced yesterday. The grants were established by a gift from David Rockefeller ’36, who will donate money annually to enable undergraduates to take part in a “significant international experience,” according to the University’s Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez. In April, Rockefeller donated a separate $100 million to the University that will be used to bolster study abroad programs and arts education. The amount awarded...
Cambridge might be getting colder, but that clearly isn’t an issue for Evelyn L. Hu or David R. Clarke, who will be leaving the sunny beaches of California for the soon-to-be icy paths of Harvard Yard. “I really miss the seasons,” Hu said. “I don’t mind the cold.” Hu—currently a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)—was recently appointed a professor of applied physics and electrical...
...research as a biologist has led him beyond the Cambridge plant collection to a far more storied one just a dozen miles away. For the past few years, Davis and colleagues from Harvard and Boston University have been perusing the notebooks of the famous naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, using his notes about his sanctuary at Walden Pond to uncover the drastic effects of climate change...