Word: professorship
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Knowles’ relationship with the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, James R. Houghton ’58, was a subplot to the unraveling of the Summers presidency. Knowles was a close friend of Houghton, whose family endowed his professorship in chemistry. After stepping down as dean in 2002, Knowles joined the board of his company, Corning Inc., a glass and fiber-optics maker in upstate New York, where he served until April...
Last night, former University President Lawrence H. Summers held an open discussion about economics, politics and social entrepreneurship in the Winthrop Junior Common Room. Summers, the former Treasury Secretary who resigned from Harvard’s presidency in 2006, now holds a prestigious University Professorship and is still considered an influential figure in U.S. economic policy. Summers told the assembled students to take advantage of the opportunities offered by their education by becoming leaders in their fields. “Don’t do something where you’re one of 50 other people...who are interchangeable cogs...
...Moholy-Nagy became a professor of the history of architecture in 1951 at the Pratt Institute in New York City. She taught there until her death in 1971. “That in itself is very remarkable: starting out without any serious education, and making it to an architectural professorship,” Heynen says.Heynen notes, however, that Moholy-Nagy’s work has been lost in the historical record. “That voice has been forgotten, and I think it’s important to revive some of her criticisms of modernism...
...native of India who earned a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell, Narayanamurti will step down in September 2008 and will focus full-time on his professorship within the SEAS...
...very excited about having Professor Levitsky as a tenured member of our faculty. He is an outstanding scholar, wonderful teacher, and excellent University citizen,” Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith said in an e-mailed statement.Levitsky, who currently holds a prestigious John L. Loeb associate professorship in the social sciences, is being tenured in the government department. He also has an appointment on the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.Levitsky becomes part of only a handful professors who teach in the social studies program to have been tenured in the program’s nearly...