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...example, the Harvard chemistry department’s strength is in organic chemistry, which is one of the oldest subdivisions of the field, says Linda H. Doerrer, an assistant professor of chemistry at Barnard College who speaks on the issue of gender bias in the sciences...
...inherit, one must be alive,” the historian John Dunn has written. Our collective inheritance is also our challenge to stay alive, to revitalize. Take the case of Harvard College, our oldest and still central institution. By many measures it seems beyond improvement: it has more applicants, and thus greater selectivity, than ever before; its students excel in class (even if not all of them earn A’s); and they succeed in all kinds of postgraduate competitions, not to mention careers. Yet if we take the College for granted, we will quickly find it diminished...
Brian Lentz, the oldest member of the Harvard baseball team and recent Seattle Mariners signee, spoke to Harvard coach Joe Walsh after the team lost to Princeton in the Ivy League championship series in late...
While it is the oldest graduate school, HDS has long been a pariah at the University—both academically and geographically—with an isolated campus at the northeast corner of campus on Francis Ave. and a historic lack of University-wide support. Former president James B. Conant ’14 disliked the school so much he tried, unsuccessfully, to liquidate...
...concept of an institute for advanced study originated in 1930 with the founding of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, N.J., as a small, Ivory Tower refuge for leading scholars to study in an environment without formal courses or curriculum. The IAS is widely known as the oldest and most prestigious institute, boasting four schools, extensive resources and a cadre of famous former members—including Albert Einstein...