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The disparagement of “professional” expertise bleeds into the academic world. The conclusions of Harvard’s ongoing curricular review presume that the pursuit of expertise is a pathology Harvard must help undergraduates resist. The 2004 report identified “specialization” and...
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to revamp the life sciences program and move concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, capping a month of curricular reform and setting the stage for an uncertain debate on the future of the Core.The extension of the concentration choice deadline...
Alina A. Payne has become the first Harvard professor to win Germany’s Max Planck Research Award in the humanities for her contribution to the study of architecture. Payne, professor of history of art and architecture, focuses her research on architecture in the Renaissance, Baroque, and modern era...
Harvard historian Caroline M. Elkins led a slew of Harvard professors, affiliates, and alumni who picked up Pulitzer Prizes and recognition from the Pulitzer Board yesterday. Elkins’ book, “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya,” won...
(2 of 2) Such measured comments have not stopped the excitement whipping across Kurdistan. "For us, new wells are very, very important," says Falah Mustafa Bakir, senior aide to Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, over coffee in Kurdistan's capital, Arbil. "It is the future, our means of prosperity." Sarbez...