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...years, the University has crafted its most refined draft of a self-study report required for the institution’s review for reaccreditation in October. The committee involved in the revising process currently has a “reasonably-completed draft report,” said Computer Science Professor Margo I. Seltzer, who presented the most recent version yesterday to the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—in order to incorporate the professors’ feedback. Seltzer said the committee will present a refined draft...
Allison said that the timing worked out particularly well, since Venky—who is currently the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of engineering and applied sciences and a professor of physics—stepped down last year as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. There, he spearheaded the effort to transform the institution from a division into a school, and he was interested in the Belfer Center position...
...whole thing has a lot of echoes,” said Allison, who is also a Kennedy School professor. “Harvey is universally regarded as a giant in this domain, so each of Harvey’s successors stand on his shoulders...
...Medvedev's personality was shaped under Putin's strong influence, and he worships Putin like a father figure, or at least like an older brother." - Valery Musin, Medvedev's former academic adviser and law professor at Leningrad State University (the Moscow Times...
...Gist: "This is a book about dismembered toes," Georgetown professor Peter Manseau writes by way of introduction. "But it is not a book about death." From Damascus to Jerusalem to Philadelphia (oddly, one of the relic capitals of the world), Manseau recounts his journey to find religious objects that have captivated the faithful for centuries and his encounters with modern pilgrims along the way. This includes a French mortician who analyzes the charred remains of Joan of Arc; a Sri Lankan tour guide who makes his living at the Temple of the Holy Tooth; a Syrian boy whose playground includes...