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...Thomas C. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel-prize-winning economist and distinguished university professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, wrote “Micromotives” in the late seventies to explain collective human behavior. The book, comparable to Malcolm Gladwell’s recent work “The Tipping Point,” was revolutionary at the time and was praised accordingly...
...Otis Graham, author of Unguarded Gates - A History of America's Immigration Crisis (published in 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield) and a professor emeritus at University of California-Santa Barbara, talks to TIME's Lee S. Ettleman on how much has changed in our attitudes toward immigration since 1915, when America was a nation of 100 million. His answer? Not all that much. TIME: What were the prevalent immigrant groups in 1915? Graham: By 1915 we were well into the period in which the main flows of immigrants were quite large. They were from different parts of Europe than the older...
...painting is one of two known Copley renderings of Bessborough—another hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Copley scholar Jules D. Prown, who received his doctorate at Harvard in 1961 and is a professor emeritus at Yale, remembered seeing the portrait in Harvard’s collections when he was a doctoral student, and he said that there is a good chance the painting is authentic...
...those surveyed mistook Pellegrino University professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson...
...grounding in the physical sciences,” said Kornberg, who eventually took both Chemistry 20—which is still offered at Harvard today—and the Chemistry 11/12 series. “Kornberg had an off-scale intellectual curiosity,” said Nobel Laureate and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Elias J. Corey, who taught Kornberg during his sophomore year. “I remember first noticing the way his eyes would light up in a lecture.” According to Corey, Kornberg was at the very top of his high-powered chemistry class, earning...