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...tenured music professor Alexander Rehding overhauled the syllabus for Music 51: “Theory 1” when he took the reins this past year—not only by making it a divisible course, but also by encouraging students to compose and perform in many genres. The previous version of the class was less free-wheeling, focusing on the Bach chorales as the basis of learning in “a very controlled environment,” according to Rehding.Rehding says he hopes that the new Music 51—as well as the revamped Music concentration...
...independently of OCS.“It’s definitely been more competitive,” she said of on-campus recruiting. “I stayed within the healthcare industry and had some more success with that than in other areas that I might have explored in previous years had the economy been better.”PROSPECTS FOR 2010The economic slump that hit this year’s graduating class will likely affect next year’s class as well, both via the weak job market and through cutbacks spurred by Harvard’s declining...
...material,” said former student and thesis advisee Andrew C. Coles ’09. Carpio arrived at Harvard in 2002, following the widely-publicized departure of African American studies Professors K. Anthony Appiaha and Cornel R. West ’74 for Princeton the previous year. She quickly built a reputation as a student favorite, both for her engaging lectures and her accessibility to undergraduates outside the classroom. Carpio’s colleagues and teaching fellows described her as warm and sensitive. “I’ve noticed that students who have taken one class...
...control of the flame gave rise to traditional gender roles, as cooked food became a valuable commodity. “The possibility of [food] theft prompted a primitive protection racket in which women are protected and men get the advantage of being fed,” he said. In previous research, Wrangham studied chimpanzees, even working with famous primatologist Jane Goodall in Tanzania. “They are a good model for human ancestors 6 to 7 million years ago,” he said of the early primates. It is while observing chimpanzees that Wrangham said he began...
...startling reminder that thesis-writing was an act of material as well metaphorical distillation. I had built a thesis out of books and notes and drafts, no differently than I had built a desk out of boards and pegs and paint over the previous summer. Martin Heidegger once wrote “Denken ist Handwerk”—thinking is craftwork. This observation, simple and revolutionary, contains within it the assertion that thinkers and intellectuals are bound into the same matrices of morality and creativity that control all humans who build things—that is, everyone...