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...need these resources in the working out of what happens when a star explodes. These supernova explosions are very interesting. Some collapse and become black holes, while others explode like a thermonuclear bomb,” said Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner...
...you’ve ever been in the room with him, you know he’s there,” says Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70. “He’s a very active participant. These presidents, they take this stuff seriously...
Pinker says that Summers also played a role in helping Kirby call upon some of the most well regarded members of the faculty to take part in this reevaluation. In addition to Kirshner, Kirby also asked Professor of English Louis Menand, Pinker, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel and Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Diana Sorensen, who co-chaired the working group on concentrations last year...
...Kirshner, who called the year-end report helpful if not completely definitive, said his colleagues did not want to simply apply a “rubber stamp” to the previous group’s work or approve measures without first considering them for themselves...
With the faculty’s criticisms in mind, Kirshner says the new general education team has decided to establish a firm philosophical consensus before they move on to more pointed discussion. And because Sandel is the only one in their midst who was involved in last year’s work, they must trudge through familiar territory before proceeding, he adds...