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...country’s 50 states over a quarter of all citizens were obese. Offering smaller portion sizes would be a small but significant step in combating this staggeringly high number. Admittedly, obesity can be caused by many factors, but it ultimately boils down to a person consuming far more calories than he burns—a habit that super-sized portions feed. A 2005 study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior showed that portion size influences overall food intake as much as taste; that is, if served more, someone will eat more, regardless of how hungry...
...nineties. Now he was in his penultimate year, and tenure was the only viable way to stay. “By that time, taking all of the circumstances into account I considered myself competitive,” he says. “Although I still thought, as any sensible person would, that the odds were against me.” Berkowitz’s department nominated him and a colleague, Bonnie Honig, for tenure review in fall of 1996. In April 1997, both professors were informed that then-University President Neil L. Rudenstine had denied them tenure, despite the Government...
...time from when you start a search to a person showing up in a classroom can be about three years,” says Casey. “For a small department to conduct a senior search the process can be extraordinarily arduous and take an enormous amount of time. There’s a limit to the capacity of a faculty to search.” And the time spent recruiting faculty may take away from the academic pursuits of the members of search committees...
This year, Martabel Wasserman ’10 has stepped up to get H-Bomb running again. “A person from the previous board asked me in June if I would be interested in releasing the next issue. I immediately started working on it,” she says...
...includes notably more women than last semester, and spurring speculation over the attempts of several active members of the Harvard Democrats to win seats on the student government. One semester after council leaders identified increased diversity as one of their goals, 13 women will assume seats on the 35-person council this year, up from the nine that filled the roster last semester. “I’m really pleased,” said UC Outreach Director Andrea R. Flores ’10, who sought to expand the UC’s candidate pool last month through...