Word: fryer
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...Roland G. Fryer...
...thought if we made you a nice offer you’d come,” said former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Roland G. Fryer, then a 25-year-old then-graduate student, says he was still considering the offer when Summers, in his trademark gruff style, barked, “Well, what are you waiting for?” Fryer decided to take the offer...
...Harvard, Fryer, who is an associate professor of economics, has set up what he calls the “American Inequality Lab,” which is “a place to pull together all of the stuff I’ve done since graduate school.” He explains that while many academics study conditions in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and around the world, few scholars devote their time to studying poverty issues in America...
...economics department scored a hat-trick of sorts last week when three of its professors—Roland G. Fryer Jr., Pol Antras, and Aleh Tsyvinski—were awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for young scholars. Economics, which could only nominate three faculty members for the two-year, $45,000 award, is home to half of Harvard’s Sloan fellows this year. Two neuroscientists and a physicist round out the Harvard portion of the 116 names on the 2007 Sloan fellow roster. Fryer, an associate professor, couldn’t contain his excitement when asked about...
...bleachers brought in for the end zones. Those were also sold out this year, which we did not have two years ago,” she said. The only Game tickets not yet sold out are those reserved for Yale students, according to Yale director of ticket operations Nancy Fryer. Though unable to provide exact figures, Fryer said that Yale student ticket sales, which began on Monday and continue through today, have been about the same as two years ago. Harvard students expressed frustration at the unavailability of tickets. Cleo D. Leung ’08 had to spam several...