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...rare types who take orgo out of “interest,” it’s time to pick your poison: 17/27 or 20/30? Chemistry 17/27 is the typical pre-med track, usually taken sophomore year. Chem 17 is a crash course on, well, everything. Fortunately, Professor Jacobsen has no trouble with this. He can erase with his right hand while writing with his left and draw chair conformations in two seconds flat. Needless to say, the class’ female population describes him as very charismatic and his office hours are always packed. Although the class...
...woman, she will bring a different perspective to the council. She joins fellow historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is vice-chair of the council.In addition to Schmid and Elkins, the new council will include English professor Louis Menand, art historian Irene J. Winter, chemist Eric N. Jacobsen, historian of science Sarah Jansen, and scientist Ann Pearson. Menand, the Bass Professor English and American Literature, joins the council after having served on the Harvard College Curricular Review’s Committee on General Education. A member of so-called “Gang of Five?...
...four FAS members are English professor Stephen Greenblatt, history and African and African American studies professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, chemistry professor Eric N. Jacobsen, and astronomy professor Ramesh Narayan...
...mail that he is “delighted” that Yale provides a tuition cut incentive to faculty.“What better message could an institution of higher education send about the value of a college education?” Salovey writes.Emery Professor of Chemistry Eric N. Jacobsen, who has been at Harvard for 13 years and is the father of three young children, says he is surprised by Harvard’s policy. When he came to Harvard and asked why the school does not offer tuition discounts, he says he was told by someone...
...administrative overhaul.The Chemistry Department, for example, which only has an optional spring term tutorial, already satisfies the requirements of the new legislation.“I do not anticipate that it will have a big effect on our concentration,” said Emery Professor of Chemistry Eric N. Jacobsen, the department’s director of undergraduate studies.—Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard.edu...