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...championship for the Empowerment Fund raised over $200,000 last year, according to Oneida Nation spokesman Mark F. Emery. The Oneida Nation has also established a $3 million dollar endowment in 2003 to fund a professorship at the Law School for visiting scholars to teach American Indian...
Krister Stendahl, former dean and professor emeritus of the Harvard Divinity School, will be remembered by his colleagues for many things—among them, that he was “very Swedish.”Having left his homeland for a Harvard professorship in 1954, the New Testament scholar made his mark on the Harvard community and beyond with an understanding spirit that sought continuity in faith and integration in academia, said Divinity School professor Harvey Cox. “He was sort of a democratic socialist of the Swedish style—that was an integral part...
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...