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...Barker Center, professors shared comical anecdotes about students who came to office hours, recalling one pupil whom Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert A. Lue nicknamed “The Ocean” for his relentless stream of questions. 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, hastened to add that students don’t need to come in with a specific question or share some fascinating talent. “Just normal people are fun, too,” she said. Professors also said that the semiannual faculty dinners...
...Laurel T. Ulrich, author of ‘Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History,’ is the 300th Anniversary University Professor...
...look forward to the future, what is the one problem that you want to see solved (i.e. global warming, health care, the war in Iraq)? --Jonah Eaton, Laurel, Md.As a teacher, the most important thing is that all kids get a quality education. There are millions of kids that aren't in school. When I was in Latin America, I met many kids, including Ana, who were forced to drop out of school. Ana had to when she became pregnant. Education is what breaks the cycles of poverty, illness and abuse. If all kids around the world could...
...with a group known for its slogan “Never Wear Panties to a Party.” Or that the maxim traces its origin to an article published in an academic journal. But such is the unusual history of a phrase described by 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in a discussion of her most recent book, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History,” at the Harvard Book Store on Tuesday night. In the book, the titular one-liner-cum-maxim serves as a focal point for what Ulrich describes...
...revolutionary: well-known writers as far back as Twain incorporated mixed media into their novels. More recently, W.G. Sebald sprinkled his prose with photographs in “The Emigrants.” And Ackerman’s speculations on Antonina’s diary entries are reminiscent of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s “A Midwife’s Tale.” But what is striking about this book is that the patchwork is not nearly as seamless as that of its predecessors. The constant—and abrupt—changes between narrative voices...