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...well-articulated, top-down initiative,” but it now appears clear that a second strategy for ensuring that Professor Russell does not feel lonely is to work from the bottom up, trusting that our faculty will know what students want and empowering them to develop courses that will appeal to our “eager newcomers,” who will remain captivated, absorbed, and enthralled so long as we continue to open doors for them...
...lobby for changes on Harvard’s campus.For instance, the HGLC was involved in the ten-year-long, and recently successful, push to change Harvard’s non-discrimination code to include gender identity and expression.Parry also says the HGLC has a significant interest in helping to develop GLBT studies programs at the University’s various schools.Members of the Harvard University Muslim Alumni also focus on undergraduate outreach, but with a different goal than HGLC’s activist work, says HUMA President Shahzad A. Bhatti, who graduated from HLS in 1997.Bhatti says that...
...rest of his life. Stone devoted much of his research to studying interpersonal and group dynamics. At Harvard, he taught Psychology 1501, “Social Psychology of Organizations” and Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology”—a course he developed and led for several years before handing it off to his protégé, Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96.Internationally, Stone is known for the creation of a software system called the General Inquirer, which performs content analysis on text gathered from surveys and questionnaires.At a time...
...environment where politicians are scurrying for accomplishments before the next election, Summers faced faculty members with lifetime tenures who had little tolerance for his prodding ways. Perhaps one of the great ironies of Summers’ presidency will prove to be the stark contrast between his ability to develop a bold plan for Harvard and his decided failure in getting others to buy into that plan. Summers brought a penchant for controversy unseen in Mass. Hall ever before, stirring perhaps a half-dozen controversies that each would have been tenure-defining mishaps for his two immediate predecessors—Derek...
Researchers realized decades ago that high blood pressure is a cardiovascular danger signal. They don't understand the exact mechanism yet, but physicians think elevated pressure puts a strain on blood vessels, causing them to tear or develop weak areas where plaque can gain an easy foothold. Hypertension (to use the technical term) can also force small blood vessels to burst like an overstressed garden hose; if that happens in the brain, it's called a stroke--the other major cardiovascular killer besides heart attack...