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...Faculty, and appropriate action has been taken,” Knowles wrote in an e-mail.He added that he had communicated the “appropriate action” to Shleifer in a recent letter.Knowles was the dean of FAS in 2002 when Shleifer was originally elevated to the Jones professorship. That was three years after Shleifer received a prestigious prize awarded to the top American economist under age 40, the John Bates Clark Medal, which his close friend, Lawrence H. Summers, had won six years earlier.While Shleifer was an undergraduate at Harvard, he was hired as a research assistant...
Knowles was the dean of FAS in 2002 when Shleifer was originally elevated to the Jones professorship. That was three years after Shleifer received a prestigious prize awarded to the top American economist under age 40, the John Bates Clark Medal, which his close friend, Lawrence H. Summers, had won six years earlier...
Though it may seem ironic that Barenboim would speak out against musical specialization to such a specialized audience, the sentiment fits with the spirit of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, which awards "prominent figures in poetry in the broadest sense...
...yellow house hidden on Kirkland Place—knows your name. Seriously. After declaring, you hand-pick an advisor. While your economics-concentrating roommate gets some bumbling grad student who went to Idaho State, you can choose absolutely anyone, regardless of their University professorship, how many books they’ve authored, or academic rock-star status. You can even request two professors to be available for weekly check-ins, junior paper advising, or default company at your House faculty dinner. And there is at least one all-you-can-eat sushi party every semester. Add some sake-bombs...
...commitments announced during the past fiscal year, which ended on June 30, include a $100 million donation from homebuilding magnate Eli Broad and his family to finance genomics research; $20 million from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal to fund a program for Islamic studies; and the $50 million University Professorship Challenge, a matching fund established by six alumni...