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...president, was wooed away by the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C. In just over a year, he managed to cut two boards out of eight total at the Institute, while still maintaining internal support. Meanwhile, the School of Public Health he had left behind named a professorship for him—the ultimate scholarly honor...
...will have won by default—bringing Washington politics to a university that has thus far resisted them. In short, with Harvard in the media spotlight, unusual power has fallen to those who never liked the notion of a university—who have long argued that the professorship is a cushy position that involves no work (as Summers implicitly did in challenging Cornel West a few years...
...Hariri established the Rafiq Hariri Professorship of International Political Economy at the KSG, which is currently held by Professor Dani Rodrik...
Although Mayr retired from his official professorship in 1975, he retained an active position in the world of science right up to his death last week. He published his 25th book in August last year, just a month after his 100th birthday. He also contributed to over 660 scientific papers in his lifetime...
Scott V. Edwards, a student of Mayr’s and his successor to the Agassiz professorship, remembered his first encounter with his mentor. It was prior to his own overseas research, when Mayr told him to “write, write, write...