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...only to laud the professor’s qualities as a teacher and mentor, but to make a case for the field of Japanese pre-modern history and its relevance to contemporary times.” Jeremy A. Yellen, a first-year graduate student in the PhD program in modern Japanese history, said that all areas of Japanese studies will “take a hit” when Adolphson leaves Harvard. “Even those who come here to study modern Japanese history come here because of Harvard’s strength in the pre-modern...
...from the Boston area to discuss topics such as international conflict, development, contemporary Islam, energy, and global warming. “Our main goal was just to get the very different parts of the Fulbright community together,” said event organizer Shoba Ramanadhan, a Fulbright alum and PhD student at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Fulbright program supports both American students studying and researching abroad, as well foreigners studying or researching in the U.S. The program, named after former Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, is funded by the State Department. Carlos Olimpo Mendivil Anaya, a Colombian...
Bozena Wozna UNIVERSITY LECTURER With a PhD in computer science and a specialization in computer-program troubleshooting, Bozena Wozna, 33, is the kind of person her country can ill afford to lose. She chose a teaching career in part because she believes the young science can play a vital role in stimulating Poland's new economy. But like many talented Poles, she decided three years ago that the opportunities elsewhere were too hard to pass up. She found a research job at King's College London and later taught at University College London. It was, she says, "a great adventure...
...senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, will preside over Faust’s installation as president, scheduled for Oct. 12. “Fran [Fergusson] will provide some really special insights and support because she was a president before,” Lee said. Fergusson, who obtained a PhD in fine arts from Harvard in 1973, could not be reached for comment yesterday. In a statement, Interim President Derek C. Bok said the University “will be fortunate to benefit from their leadership next year.” “Fran Fergusson and Bill Lee are extraordinarily...
...Islamic buildings, which create infinite symmetrical patterns that never repeat—a process known as “quasicrystalline tiling.” “We can’t say for sure what it means,” said Lu, who is expected to receive his PhD in physics in 2007. “It could be proof of a major role of mathematics in medieval Islamic art or it could have been just a way for artisans to construct their art more easily.” British scholar Roger Penrose was the first person to mathematically...