Word: professorship
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According to HCGHAC member Heidi E. Kim ’09, the widespread student support for Dr. Kim is both a result of his Harvard professorship and his extensive experience working in global health...
Acclaimed cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig will return to Cambridge next summer, extending Harvard Law School’s recent streak of poaching top-flight professors from rival schools. Lessig will re-assume a professorship at the Law School after nine years at Stanford, where he said he moved in 2000 to be closer to his wife, a native of California. In addition to being a law professor, Lessig will direct the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Calling Lessig “one of the most brilliant and important legal scholars of our time,” Law School...
...Obama filled the last of the four top economic positions Monday, announcing that his Council of Economic Advisers will be chaired by University of California at Berkeley economist Christina D. Romer, who was a subject of national indignation earlier this year when Harvard did not offer her a tenured professorship. Economists, including Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chief under President Bush, have hailed Obama’s pick as an “excellent choice.” Though the role of the CEA has been diminished since former President Clinton created the National Economic Council...
...government. The judge also ruled that Harvard had breached its government contract, and the University paid $26.5 million to settle out of court. Shleifer was required to pay an additional $2 million as part of the settlement.Despite the controversy, Shleifer was allowed to keep his endowed Harvard professorship, in part due to his close relationship with Summers, according to a January 2006 article in Institutional Investor magazine.A month after the article was published, Abernathy and 15 other FAS professors spoke out against Summers, and on Feb. 9, German and comparative literature professor Judith L. Ryan submitted a motion...
...Canada’s Liberal Party. If the Liberal Party wins a majority in the next parliamentary election, the leader of the party will become Prime Minister. Ignatieff, who left his position as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in December 2005 for a visiting professorship at the University of Toronto, lost a controversial bid for this same party leadership position in 2006. That loss was credited mostly to the 27 years he spent outside the country, a decision believed to have caused many Canadians to view him as out of touch. “There...