Word: putnams
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...most important strokes in her sketch of the academic year to come. Fortunately, Faust has recognized that there is no reason to limit departmental integration to the sciences. As Malkin Professor of Public Policy and former dean of the Kennedy School of Government Robert D. Putnam told The Crimson, Harvard “underplays its assets in the social sciences because of the divisions across the schools and across departments.” Just as physicists or chemists can benefit from shared labs and research, so too can economists or sociologists gain from pooled resources for survey design and data...
...addition to the “intellectual gains” created by more interactions between professors in the social sciences across the University, Putnam described “practical and material gains...
Robert D. Putnam, the Malkin professor of public policy and a former dean at the Kennedy School of Government, said that currently the University “underplays its assets in the social sciences because of the divisions across the schools and across departments” within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...There are large numbers of great social scientists in many parts of the University who talk to each other too little,” Putnam said. “In the social sciences, as in many fields, Harvard is in fact less than the sum of its parts...
...Putnam said, just as the hard sciences profit from sharing labs, social scientists could benefit by pooling survey research technology and joining together when they sponsor surveys to increase their purchasing power...