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...done in small isolated labs that don’t communicate.” Walker attacked this problem using what he called “door-to-door salesmanship” to recruit a wide range of local talent. He sat down with engineers and scientists in other fields??ranging from basic immunology to chemical engineering—and explained that if they were willing to refocus their efforts on AIDS research, he had the funding to cover it. “These are people that made their reputations in other fields,” Walker said...
...tenets of the linguistics world. And here is where the road gets rocky.Everett’s claims fly in the face of some of the most basic and established beliefs in the fields of psychology and linguistics. The author even targets some of the biggest names in these fields??many of them right here at Harvard—like MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, Harvard Psychology professors Steven Pinker and Marc D. Hauser, and rising Linguistics star Andrew I. Nevins. Nevins, an assistant professor in the Linguistics department has come out most strongly against Everett?...
...Idiot’s Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft,” Mitchell said. “That’s how you know it’s come of age in pop culture.”MYTHIC EXPANSIONThe Folk and Myth committee offers three different options for secondary fields??Literature and Performance, Mythology, and Folklore.One of Tatar’s priorities as chair is to strengthen the Mythology secondary field, which is currently lacking an introductory-type class.“A lot of the freshman who showed up to our open house had all been mythology...
...maintain a manageable faculty size in the face of administrative and programmatic changes is completely understandable, this hiring slow-down will ultimately disadvantage students who face gaping holes in their departments of choice. Harvard currently lacks sufficient tenured and tenure-track faculty to provide instruction in a number of fields??from philosophy to history to language studies. For example, the Philosophy department remains incomplete without course offerings in aesthetic philosophy or the philosophy of art. Students wishing to study these fields have no choice but to instead focus on analytic philosophy, an entirely different animal. At an institution...
...Association at HBS. Topics of discussion included the country’s infrastructure, retail, and health care. A panel on private equity and venture capital was one of the most popular events of the day, as attendees crammed into an auditorium to listen to industry experts speak about their fields?? implications for India. Panelist Heramb Hajarnavis, a vice president of the Principal Investment Area at Goldman Sachs, noted that both the number and the size of private equity deals in India have been increasing over the past few years, and that last year’s average deal...