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...small library. Yet another is home to Harvard’s trophy collection. Its walls are adorned with Harvard curios in just the right proportion of nerdiness and pretension. So if you were wondering over buffalo wings when Harvard last won first place in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, the pub can tell you—in plaque form (it was in 2005). And if you are curious about at what hours women could visit the River Houses seven decades ago, parietal rules are on the wall—but thankfully not in force. Also hanging is a giant...
...United States, but also internationally.” In the past 30 years, Skocpol has delved into a wide variety of political fields ranging from international politics involving the causes of revolutions and peasant revolts to domestic issues pertaining to public policy and American civic life. Robert D. Putnam, last year’s Skytte Prize winner and the Malkin professor of public policy, said that her work emphasized the influence of the state on political life—an issue that had been largely ignored when scholars took more psychological and sociological approaches to political science...
...chair Salil P. Vadhan ’95, Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor of Computer Science, but rather “needed a good environment for interaction and collaboration to have seminars and discuss research ideas.” Radcliffe planned for them to live together in Putnam House, an arrangement several cluster members described as ideal. Still other fellows were given funding to make trips back to their home labs. As a result, scientists, mathematicians, and engineers who are at the cutting edges of their fields found a place at Radcliffe...
...approach,” Nye said. “He was very opposed to Al-Quaeda and he was very strong in his condemnation and that is good news.” Other Western scholars participating in the discussion and advising include Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam, as well as Francis Fukuyama of Johns Hopkins University, Nye said. The involvement of the Harvard professors has been an individual enterprise and effort, not on behalf of the institution, Porter said. —Staff writer Daniela Nemerenco can be reached at dnemeren@fas.harvard.edu...
...Whether the Harvard community will need [it] in the months ahead, I’m honestly not sure. I’ve found myself reading it less often in the post-Summers era, but I have no idea whether or not I’m typical,” Putnam wrote in an e-mail...