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...Princeton, by contrast, is likely to hire at least five new junior professors for next year, according to Oleg Itskhoki, a Ph.D. student in Economics. That number has not been slashed at all in response to financial conditions, according to Hyun Song Shin, the assistant chair of Princeton’s economics department...
...mathematicians. Reaching back to the sixth century B.C., Livio uses Pythagoras, Plato, and Archimedes to demonstrate that there is an intimate relationship between the most basic arithmetic and much more complicated and inaccessible abstract logic. Revelations abound, from the logical basis for counting, to the foundation of prime numbers, and the Pythagorean Theorem. But there are an equal number of instances where Livio’s explanations fall short, such as when he discusses knots or how gravity operates in the solar system. In these cases, Livio loses himself in the history of the discoveries and overwhelms the reader with...
...gonna be my turn?” like he’s trying to get in on his own game of “Rock Band.” He’d probably find it more involving, as Hoobastank’s paint-by-number pop-rock suggests a level of musical sophistication that could easily be attained playing several hours of video games. But when the video ends and the screen flashes, “It’s your turn,” I’m more than willing to pass. Game over, man. Game over...
...otherwise get,” Naddaff says. Rohse says freshman seminars are a means for incoming undergraduates to experiment with new and unexplored subject matter. She has noticed that students often discover a new passion and then decide to concentrate in that area. In fact, according to Krukowski, a number of VES concentrators took “Noisy Art” in their freshman year. These concentrators include both students who were already familiar with the material, as well as those who had no experience with VES before. “Some certainly knew they would be in VES beforehand...
...degree in History and Literature. Lewy chose to later complement his undergraduate experience with a Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia, but he cites his broad Harvard education as providing him with important perspective for his work today. “I’m working on a fair number of projects where history comes into play,” he said. Other aspiring filmmakers opt to make their art the focus of their college education. But even at its most technical, Harvard’s film program is not pre-professional. The VES department, through the courses it offers...