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...first endowed professorship came in January. It was a validation of sorts for the new Institute...
...Boylston contest was established in 1817 in honor of Nicholas Boylston, who endowed the Boylston professorship of rhetoric and oratory. The competition has been held annually since its conception...
Many assistants are paid for by money from the same grants that endowed their boss's professorship...
...mere 10 pages ahead in the textbook," Elkies said. But sometimes you get lucky. Work stemming from his Olympiad training led to his first published discovery. Apparently something of a boy-wonder, he came to Harvard for graduate school at 19, got his Ph.D. at 20, an assistant professorship at 23, and was tenured a month before his 27th birthday...
Moreover, the new professorship, named in honor of renowned musician Quincy Jones, directly attests to the prominent position the Harvard Afro-American Studies Department holds in the field, as well as in academia as a whole. Several top-tier universities have Afro-American studies departments, making Time Warner's decision to entrust Harvard with its money symbolic of the University's unparalleled commitment to Afro-American studies over the past 10 years under President Neil L. Rudenstine's tenure...