Word: professor
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Harvard Kennedy School Professor Graham T. Allison ’62, who moderated the event, called ElBaradei “one the genuinely great leaders of his generation,” encouraging students in the audience to learn from [ElBaradei’s] courage...
Harvard Mathematics Professor Shing-Tung Yau, one of this year’s two winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, announced on Monday that he intends use his portion of the award to create a fund at China’s Tsinghua University to support the study of mathematics, especially among low income students...
Stony Brook University Professor Dennis P. Sullivan, who shares this year’s prize for mathematics with Yau, will also be recognized during the upcoming ceremony for his work in algebraic topology and conformal dynamics...
...project confront the standard top-down model of literary education. They call the creative interpretation of literature “intervention,” and teachers “facilitators.” “If this is a revolution,” says Doris Sommer, a Professor of Romance Languages and Literature and African and African American Studies, “it’s in the spirit of [Marxist thinker Antonio] Gramsci—of reformism through cultural practices, because it gets people to read and write at a high level, in which creativity and critical thinking...
...texts, and Facebook updates—might be tempted to latch onto a single word—hallucinogenic, or even psychedelic. Yet, trying to capture Vu in one word does a disservice to her artistic complexity. As Vu’s thesis advisor, Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department professor Andrew Beattie, says of the “miracle worlds” she paints: “They’re not cute and she’s not cute—that’s the wrong word. When you use the words ‘whimsical?...