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...flourishing at Harvard; and not where one might readily think. Far from the departments of music and Visual and Environmental Sciences, another artistic culture is thriving-—in the fields of psychology, government, and mathematics. Professors Steven Pinker, Andrea L. Campbell, Noam D. Elkies, Benedict H. Gross, and John D. Boller have breached the boundaries of their respective fields to dabble in music and the fine and dramatic arts...
Leverett Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has maintained his musical interests from the third grade, when he first picked up the viola, to his undergraduate years at Harvard, to the present day, as a member of a quartet of mathematicians. His current repertoire includes “the classical quartet literature, up to Dvorak and Ravel.” Having played in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra while studying at Harvard, Dean Gross still attends alumni sight readings. He humbly added, “They put me next to someone competent...
This policy change comes as the College is pushing for students to go abroad. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross wrote in an e-mail, “Our policy balances the wish to have students travel and study around this world with the risk of life in some countries...
...Gross also wrote that students could still travel to these countries on their...
Previous Marshall Scholars include Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and scientist Ray Dolby, inventor of Dolby sound systems...