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...final numbers will remain unclear until early next week, since staffers who have accepted the package will still have seven days to change their minds, Robert P. Mitchell, the Faculty??s director of communications, wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday...
...diagnosis is in, and Harvard Medical School is still a little under the weather—not from the common cold or chicken pox, but because of its faculty??s nebulous relationships with drug companies. The practice of pharmaceutical companies having contracts with medical professors is not peculiar to Harvard—collaboration and financial backing of doctors by pharmaceuticals is common in the field. What is unique at HMS, however, is that these relationships are not openly disclosed to the student body or the public...
...fellow student who worked under Kagan on the Law Review.As Dean, Kagan embarked on an ambitious expansion of the faculty to decrease class sizes, bringing the total number to 102 full-time professors before recent departures for the Obama administration. In the process, she has poached more tenured faculty??including Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most cited legal scholar in the country—from other institutions during her five-year deanship than during the previous 20 years combined.Other programs that Kagan introduced testify to the six years she spent soaking up a more collegial...
...Hans-Olav Adami, who heads the epidemiology department, says he has been racking his brains to accommodate the needs of roughly 160 students—often at the expense of his full-time faculty??and bring together the department members scattered across three buildings...
Junior seminars in economics—the only small undergraduate courses taught by the department’s faculty??may become yet another victim of the University-wide strain borne of the financial crisis. With faculty departing and Harvard’s hiring slowdown hindering their replacement, the already stretched department does not have enough faculty members to teach the seminars, according to some department members. “We have a shrinking pool of faculty to teach the same pool of students,” said Economics Professor Claudia Goldin, who taught a seminar this fall...