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While his resignation came only weeks before Cornel R. West ’74 left Harvard after a now-notorious dispute with University President Lawrence H. Summers, Appiah has always insisted that his primary reasons for leaving had nothing to do with the Summers-West flap. Instead, Appiah said he saw the move as a way to eliminate his weekly commute between Boston and New York, where he still lives with his partner...
...Harvard professor with a passion for studying everyday phenomena, including how worms wriggle, flags flap, and skin shrivels, has co-authored a report research explaining how the Venus flytrap is able to snap shut almost instantaneously...
...book’s release, set for March 1, comes as Summers continues to reel from criticism of his remarks last month on women in science. And while that latest flap does not make the pages of Harvard Rules, it will likely draw increased attention to the book and its criticisms of the beleaguered Harvard president...
...stake in this week’s flap, according to observers on and off campus, are Harvard’s efforts to recruit top female academics and reach out to alumnae and professors already displeased with what they perceive as the University’s callous attitudes towards women...
...mail exchange with The Crimson yesterday, Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, who teaches the popular spring core class “The Human Mind,” opined on the latest flap over President Summers’ comments on women in science...