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...professors on the committee vested with implementing the College’s first curricular overhaul in 30 years, science professor John Huth does not take his obligations lightly. One morning this spring, he had to drop his daughter off at school, take his car to the mechanic, bike to his office, and change into a dress shirt there, all by 8:30 a.m.—to make it to a General Education committee meeting, where he would help hammer out course proposals for an hour and a half. It’s behind-the-scenes labors like these that...
With the realization of this goal, Harvard will be able to invite visiting scholars that focus on varying facets of the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies, instead of appointing a full professor of more narrow expertise, he said...
...professorship—named after former English professor Francis O. Matthiessen, whose homosexuality was an open secret during his time at Harvard—marks a step forward in the larger movement seeking to legitimize fields like LGBT studies, according to Timothy P. McCarthy, a lecturer in public policy and in history and literature...
...Energy Secretary and in his career as an academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed him for his cabinet post in January. He has served as head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a professor at Stanford and Berkeley. Harvard College will award 1,562 degrees today: 1,549 Bachelor of Arts degrees and 13 Bachelor of Science degrees. 794 men and 768 women make up the graduating class. Seventy undergraduates, representing about 4 percent of the class, earned summa cum laude degrees?...
...said. “It’s exciting because young people are stepping up and want to serve, but it’s frightening because our current system doesn’t always give people the opportunity to serve.” Kennedy School Professor Robert I. Rotberg agreed that the federal government would benefit from an increased number of talented students entering the public sector. “I hope people pay attention and they get developed,” Rotberg said of Ellwood’s suggestions. The number of 2009 Kennedy School graduates who plan...