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...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...
...reason for the administration to provide the classes.” A FAILED ATTEMPT Still, after decades of waiting, the tide may be turning for Asian American studies at Harvard. The history department came close to hiring a permanent Asian American studies expert last year for a joint full professorship in history and ethnic studies, according to history professor Walter Johnson. “We all agreed that finding someone who could teach in the area of Asian American studies should be a priority,” Johnson said. But the prospective candidate, Mae M. Ngai, accepted a position...
...beings to the “odd thing” that is music. Instead, he uses his knowledge of science and medicine to chronicle the many ways music, with all its ambiguities, can influence our lives. It may be telling that Columbia University, in addition to giving Sacks a professorship in clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry, recently appointed him to the newly created position of “Columbia artist.” Perhaps, though we’re often taught to believe otherwise, it does take a scientist to provide new depth to one of the oldest forms...
...realize how ignorant I was to the conditions in North Korea,” said Sakong, who is the political chair of the Korean Association, which helped organize the event. Speaking for close to four hours, Kim traced the personal arc of his life—his professorship in North Korea, his tutoring, and his stint as a visiting professor in Russia. His accounts drew both laughs and gasps from the crowd. He recounted one occasion when he was tutoring Kim Il Sung’s nephew—“one boisterous youngster, not the most obedient type...