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...path that led renowned cognitive scientist Steven Pinker from MIT to Harvard’s psychology department began with an invitation to eat dinner at Boston’s Green Street Grill...
It’s not unusual for Harvard’s science programs to best MIT’s. And last week’s announcement that preeminent neuroscientist Steven Pinker would leave our neighbor down the river for our ivied halls reinforces Harvard’s dominant position...
...particularly pleasing that Pinker plans to teach a course in Harvard’s Core Curriculum next year. One of Harvard’s greatest assets is its roster of noteworthy professors who still remain accessible to large numbers of students outside their individual departments through Core classes. In the tradition of late Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould, big names and great thinkers like Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner have helped to stimulate a broad-based interest in the sciences at the College; Pinker’s addition will make sure this important practice continues. Though...
Explaining his defection, Pinker said to the Boston Globe, “For human nature and its implications, Harvard is the most important place.” Harvard is on the right track, and with the gradual addition of science all-stars like Pinker to the Faculty, the University’s sciences will only continue to improve...
Hauser and Pinker have co-taught seminars at MIT, and Hauser raised the possibility of teaching—and working—together again...