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...College Theatre last Friday, he was amicable, reflective, and insightful. He called his time at Harvard “amazing” and recounted his formative experiences at the university. Born in New York City in 1967, Gilbert grew up in a musical family; his father Michael Gilbert, his mother Yoko Takebe (a player in the Philharmonic), and his sister Jennifer Gilbert are all prominent violinists. While attending Harvard College, he lived in Adams House and nurtured broad academic interests. Gilbert attempted to major in English, but was unable to complete the requirements in time for graduation. He returned...
...video game music. The school has hired more faculty for this purpose and is also working to develop a degree program specific to the genre. “A few of the students at Berklee formed this group called the Video Game Music Club,” says Michael D. Sweet, a professor in the Film Scoring department who teaches a class on “Interactive Scoring for Games.” “Now it’s over 200 members, and they were really instrumental in pushing the administration. All of my students are super excited...
...University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt said the school has no plans to cut funding for any of its programs. Brandt said, however, that GSAS administrators have made modest modifications to the school’s administrative budget upon the request of Michael D. Smith, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Smith has asked all departments for 10 to 15 percent budget cuts in order to meet the more than $100 million shortfall across FAS in the next fiscal year. “This is an exercise that Dean Smith is asking...
...Michael W. Shannon, the first African-American professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, whose work on environmental health and modern dance delighted colleagues and audiences alike, died Tuesday. Shannon was returning from vacation when he collapsed for unknown reasons, according to the Boston Globe. He was 55. The former head of emergency medicine at Harvard-affiliate Children’s Hospital was a leading authority on pediatric toxicology, said Gary R. Fleisher, chair of the Boston hospital’s department of medicine. “He was extremely reliable—you could depend on him for anything...
...politician himself, like so many other Japanese leaders (including that other maverick, Koizumi) he entered the Diet when he was just 27. Michael Green, chairman of Japan research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who knew Ozawa more than 20 years ago, remembers him back then as a traditional politician "focused on bringing home the bacon" to his constituency in Iwate prefecture in northeastern Honshu. His mentors include both Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister from 1972 to 1974, who treated Ozawa like a son and arranged his marriage, and Shin Kanemaru, who served as Deputy Prime Minister...